I wanted to draw on a web page and keep the note. No browser let me do that, so I built one

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It started with a tab I closed in frustration. Long article, cookie wall, autoplay video, chat bubble. I opened reader mode and tried to underline a sentence. Nothing. I remember thinking, why can I annotate a PDF but not a web page. The first version was a page that pulled an article and dumped the text on a cream background. Ugly, but it worked. I showed a friend and they asked if they could draw on it. That question turned into the marker, the highlighter and the sticky notes. Quill is a Windows browser now. The parts I hadn't seen before: - The reader can sit in split view next to the real page, so you can check the extraction without leaving. - You can draw on either side, and the ink is saved per URL. - Selecting a passage makes a sticky note out of it, or sends it to the AI panel. - GitHub opens as paper inside the browser, and YouTube gets a clean player with a sleep timer and A/B loop. The extraction engine took most of the time. News and Wikipedia are decent. Modern docs sites still break. I keep a list and work through it in the evenings. Windows only, no auto-update. Website: https://nimvorodev.github.io/quill-browser/ Github: https://github.com/nimvorodev/quill-browser   submitted by   /u/longsharks [link]   [comments]