Highlights
Highlights and comments from reading pages, viewable by date or article and exportable in bulk.
What it is
Highlights consolidates every highlight + comment you've made on BestBlogs reading pages.
Terminology: highlight is the action (mark a passage); Highlights (plural) is the resulting page where they all live.
How to highlight
On any article / tweet / newsletter detail page, select text:
- A mini toolbar appears
- Choose Highlight to save it (default yellow tint)
- Optionally attach a private comment to that highlight
- Or invoke the AI Reading Assistant to ask follow-ups on the passage
Podcasts and videos don't yet support timeline highlights — "timestamp bookmark + comment" is coming in a later release.
What the page lets you do
| View | Use case |
|---|---|
| By date | See what you've highlighted recently — useful for weekly review |
| By article | Enter a single article's full highlight + comment set, like a reading notebook |
| Search | Search across highlighted text or your own comments |
Highlights vs Bookmarks
| Dimension | Bookmark | Highlight |
|---|---|---|
| Granularity | Whole item | Paragraph / sentence |
| Count | One per item | Many per item |
| Comment | One paragraph per item | One per highlight |
| When to use | Revisit the whole piece | Extract key quotes / connect across sources |
Export
Three export formats:
- Markdown: one .md file per article — highlights as blockquotes, comments as body text
- JSON: full structured data for further processing
- Readwise-compatible CSV: direct import into Readwise (Pro only)
Reuse in the AI Reading Assistant
When you've highlighted heavily on an article, the AI Reading Assistant treats those highlights as "what you care about most" and prioritizes them when answering follow-up questions.