Annotations & Highlights

When viewing an archived page in your browser or the extension, you can select any text to highlight it. Highlights appear with a colored background, making key passages easy to spot when you revisit the archive.

You can choose from four highlight colors:

• Yellow — for general highlights and important passages.
• Blue — for technical details, code references, or data points.
• Green — for positive findings, confirmations, or key quotes.
• Rose — for critical items, questions, or items that need follow-up.

Using different colors consistently helps you quickly scan archives for specific types of information.

Every highlight can have an attached note. When you highlight a passage, you can type a note that will be saved alongside the highlight. Notes appear when you hover over or click the highlighted text, making them useful for adding context, questions, or personal commentary.

Notes are private to you unless you share the archive through a team or public collection.

Screenshots stored in Backdrop support visual annotation. You can draw oval or circle shapes over specific areas of a screenshot to draw attention to particular elements — such as a button on a UI, a face in an image, or a section of a chart.

Each oval annotation can include a note, similar to text highlights. All screenshot annotations are accessible from the Screenshots page in your dashboard.

The Annotations page in your dashboard gives you a complete overview of every highlight and note you have created across all your archives. You can:

• Browse all annotations sorted by date or archive.
• Filter annotations by color to find specific types of highlights.
• Click any annotation to navigate directly to the archived page it belongs to.
• Delete annotations you no longer need.

Annotations are anchored to the archived content using structural information about the page, not the live web. This means your highlights remain in place even if the original website changes or goes offline. Because annotations are tied to your archived copy of the page, they will always point to the exact content you highlighted.