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i-Lighter – the Yellow Highlighter for the Web

Posted on 21 February 2007 by


I recently got an email about a service called i-Lighter, and I’ll admit that my first thought was “why would I need this?”

i-lighter

Well, I read a bit of the site’s information, and maybe I was a little hasty to dismiss it. Here’s their hook…

 When was the last time you:

- Opened multiple tabs and accidentally closed them, losing everything you’ve been researching.
- Used ‘cut and paste’ to save snippets of web content and than tried to find some of it?
- Bookmarked a page and can’t remember what was important to begin with?
- Or, the bookmark link was broken, data lost forever?

Welcome to i-Lighter! A one-click way to:
- Save only what matters to you
- Add your annotations
- Find it when you need it
- Simply include it in your email, documents and blogs
- Most importantly, never lose any of it

It’s FREE and as easy as using a yellow highlighter and a stack of post-it notes.  Take a moment and click on our demo or download i-Lighter and see how easy it is to use!

So it looks like i-Lighter basically installs a new option in your menu which allows you to highlight, gather and manage information. i-Lighter works with Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, on PCs  running Windows XP Home or Windows XP Pro.

Since I’m running Vista, I’m not going to install it – but I would love to hear what you think about the program if you give it a try. :-)

You can read the FAQ here, and you can download it here.

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  • ctmagnus

    I currently use OneNote for stuff I want to keep, and Highlighter 0.1.4 in Firefox for highlighting stuff in Firefox. And for stuff I want to keep and highlight, I highlight it in OneNote. ;)

    But this has my setup beat price-wise.

  • rookcnu

    Just gave her the old 15 minute try. Failed miserably as far as I am concerned. I-lighting certain passages and then it wouldn’t save to where I asked it to. Where did it save to? Your guess is as good as mine. Then, IE froze up every other times I used it. I uninstalled within 15 minutes.

    Sorry!

    By the way – using Windows XP with IE 6

  • http://www.geardiary.com Judie Hughes

    Thanks for being the guinea pig! ;-)

    I have OneNote, too. There’s also a handy Sticky Notes application on my tablet that I can use. :-)

  • monkey2nut

    I tried it too,

    Don’t like the fact that you have to “login” to use it. Also slowed my browser down a little.

    Uninstalled it after an hour.

    :-)

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  • hrwh52

    Suprised to see these posts… Have been using I-lighter for a few weeks… for work stuff (I teach), for recipes etc… I find it incredibly handy… I use it in firefox, never had a problem (tried in on IE after reading the above post, and it worked great).. It saves to you Ilighter account (you can open on your computer or anywhere… even at work in my case). I have a feeling this will be bought out by one of the browsers and incorporated into it… seems that they are a small company, probably with a little more $/expertise it would take off even more. All id say, is dont give up on it too fast- it really offers a lot of convenience. Wish I had come up with it :>