During student time, many of us have resorted to the use of highlighters to highlight those fragments of important texts, key ideas or anything else that caught our attention. With the leap to digital this is still possible, all you need is the right tool. And if you’re looking for something similar, attentive, Liner may be the utility you needed.
Liner, hightlight what interests you about a website or PDF
Let’s start with a use case that can be common for any of us. You open your browser and start visiting the pages that you normally read, for example you go to eloutput.com, and there you find an article in which we tell you how to do something or give you recommendations of series and movies.
At that time, you start reading and you find interesting and / or useful information. The normal thing would be to save the entire page, for example in Pocket or similar services, to read later or to recover that specific data. This is a completely valid solution, but there would be a faster, more visual and efficient way to do it.
If you do not want to get involved copying and pasting fragments, URLs, etc., in applications such as Notion, Evernote or similar, and also have the option to see those annotations in their context, to understand well why it caught your attention, then Liner may interest you .
Liner is a free add-on that is available for most browsers as an extension. You can install it in Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc. You can even find it available for iOS and Android devices.
Now, how does Liner work and what does it allow? Let’s go parts. Liner is a tool or utility that allows you to highlight text fragments in web or PDF documents. And most importantly, all that is saved and synchronized so you can check it again when you need it. To do this, simply select a piece of text and you will see a small floating menu that gives you the option to choose the color. Once done, you can save it in the folder you create more timely than you have in Liner you create.
To do this and take advantage of the synchronization options, you must log in to Liner . That implies making use of the basic plan, which is free in exchange for having certain limitations such as: up to three comments per article, three folders to group and organize these annotations / underlines, two underline colors, basic search, synchronization with two devices and even 3 MB upload per PDF document.
Or, if you think there are too many limitations, go to the subscription payment plan . This costs 7.99 euros per month and eliminates comments limits, folders and uploads, synchronization and others. Of course, we recommend that you do not do so until you are clear about what kind of real benefit the service brings you or not. The same with the basic option is enough for a good season for how you use it, organize and take advantage of it.
Because, together with the ability to collect information, from Liner you can also share these stored fragments on other social networks. But hey, you should already value it calmly. It is true that all this can really be done in many other ways and for free. Here the benefit is in how Liner saves time and how it allows to organize the cuts in front of another method.
If you are interested, you can get the extension for the browser you use or apps for iOS and Android from this website.
