# Highlights

Highlighting text as you read offers substantial advantages, facilitating deeper engagement with the material, enhancing comprehension of intricate topics, and ensuring effortless access to essential passages for future reference.

You can create highlights with Reader Mode, directly on the webpages, on [distraction-free reader](/using-reader-mode/reader-mode.md), or PDF with Reader Mode  [browser extensions](https://readermode.io/download) or  from the dashboard.

### Enable Highlighter Menu Bar on Webpages

[👉](https://yaytext.com/emoji/backhand-index-pointing-right/)  To enable highlighter menu on webpages, please read the guide [here](/using-reader-mode/highlights/enable-highlighter-menu-bar-on-webpages.md)<br>

### Create, Update, Annotate or Delete highlight

To create a highlight, start by selecting a text or sentence. When the [highlighter popup](/using-reader-mode/highlights.md)  appears, hover or click the `number 1: Highlight icon` : &#x20;

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When hover over this icon or click on existing highlight, it takes you to the additional actions. From here, you can take further action on your highlighted passages, including:

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* **Choose/change colour**
* **Annotate (add note)**: leave your instant thoughts on your highlight
* **Go to** [**Highlight Settings**](/using-reader-mode/highlight-settings.md)
* **Change** [**Folder**](/using-reader-mode/collections.md)&#x20;
* **Delete** - simply click on the colour icon to delete the highlight

### Export Highlights

You can export highlights of particular bookmark to Evernote, Notion, Word, PDF, Text file, or even email it to yourself or somebody else. To do this, go to your [dashboard](/using-reader-mode/dashboard.md) , and click the `...`  on the bookmark that you want to export and click `Export` :&#x20;

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The `Export Highlights` popup will appears with the list of export options for you to choose from:

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### Highlight & Annotate PDF

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<summary>From browser extension</summary>

When opening a PDF link: On your browser's toolbar, click on Reader Mode extension icon, then click `Read & Annotate`:

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You can also click on `Annotate` button in the PDF itself:

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<summary>From dashboard</summary>

From your [dashboard](/using-reader-mode/dashboard.md), click `+ Add` button on the top toolbar, then click PDF:

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Upload the PDF in the popup, then you can start highlighting and annotating once the PDF has been uploaded.

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### Sync Highlights

Go to [Integrations setting page](http://readermode.io/settings/integrations) . From there, simply click connect for the services that you want to sync all your highlights with.

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