# Highlights and instant notes

> Grab a passage from any app with one shortcut and let CogniPage file it for you.

Source: https://cognipage.io/docs/highlights

Sometimes you want to keep a specific passage rather than leave it to dwell-time. Select it in any application and press one shortcut — CogniPage saves it, titles it, summarises it, files it and links it to what you already know.

**Shortcut** `⌘` `⇧` `H` on macOS · `Ctrl` `⇧` `H` on Windows

## Using it

1. **Select the text**
   In a browser, a PDF reader, a document, an email — anywhere text can be selected.
2. **Press the shortcut**
   A small confirmation appears. If nothing was selected, it tells you so — select something and press again.
3. **Find it in Notes**
   The passage is saved as a [note](https://cognipage.io/docs/notes), with the original source text kept alongside anything you later write yourself.

## What AI does with it

Shortly after a highlight is saved, and only if you are signed in with credits available:

- It is given a
  **title**
  and a short
  **summary**
  .
- It is filed into the right
  **folder**
  , creating one if nothing fits.
- The
  **concepts**
  it touches are extracted and linked to concepts in your other notes, which is what the
  [Knowledge Map](https://cognipage.io/docs/analytics)
  draws.

Without an account it is still saved, verbatim, in your notes — just unfiled and untitled.

## Apps that do not expose a selection

A few applications publish no selection to the accessibility layer. There, CogniPage falls back to copying: it saves your clipboard, issues a copy, reads the result, and puts your original clipboard back. This happens only at the moment you press the shortcut, never in the background.

> **The shortcut is not working**
>
> Another application has probably claimed `⌘` `⇧` `H` first — whoever registers it first wins, and your OS does not report the clash. Quit the other app, or capture the same passage by reading it in a tracked window instead. The rest of CogniPage is unaffected.