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Highlight the Web with Glasp: A Guide to Using This Tool

Have you ever come across an engaging article or website that you wanted to revisit later but needed help remembering where you found it? Perhaps you may have wished to share a web page with a friend and highlight specific sections of the content. Or maybe you've wanted to highlight parts of a YouTube video's transcript and share them with others. Are you interested in exploring highlights made by others on topics that you want to research? If any of these situations sound familiar, then Glasp could be the solution you've been looking for.

Glasp enables you to highlight, save, and organise various online content, such as articles, websites, YouTube videos, and online books. This way, you can quickly and easily retrieve the information you need later.

This article is a guide to help you get started with Glasp. It will cover its features and how to effectively use it to highlight web content, save and access those highlights, and share them with others. By following these steps, you can easily start saving, organising, and sharing your favourite online content.

What is Glasp

Glasp is a web-based highlighting tool that allows users to highlight and save important information from web pages. In addition to highlighting, Glasp offers a range of features to help users annotate, organise and manage their saved content.

What makes Glasp different from your typical web highlighter is the feature that enables users to share their highlights. Glasp can be regarded as a social web highlighting tool, useful for web researchers, active readers, newsletter writers, students, etc.

Benefits of using Glasp

Using Glasp as your preferred web highlighter offers several benefits, including:

• Highlighting and note-taking: With Glasp, you can highlight important sections of articles and videos and add notes to remember key points.
• Organisation: Glasp lets you tag your highlights, and save and organise web content in a central location, making it easy to find and access later. You can access your highlights by dates saved, favourite highlights, topics, and more.
• Sharing: Sharing saved content with others is effortless with Glasp. You can search for specific tags on any topic and find other users' highlights. You can also search for a particular author and see all their highlights.
• Time-saving: By using Glasp, you can quickly find and revisit important content without searching your browsing history or bookmarks.
• Improved learning: Glasp's highlighting and note-taking features can help you retain more information from your saved content, improving learning outcomes. You can also learn from other users' highlights on the same topics.
• Accessibility: Glasp is available on desktops, tablets, and mobile devices, so you can access your highlights and saved content from anywhere.

Let's explore how you can get started with Glasp

To get started with Glasp, you first need to install the browser extension and then create an account.

Follow these steps to get started:

Installing the Glasp extension

1. Navigate to the Glasp website.
2. Choose your preferred browser (Chrome or Safari) from the available options. Click the "Install" button.
3. Click on “Add to Chrome” to install Glasp on Google Chrome. Glasp also supports other popular web browsers such as Safari, Brave, Firefox, and more, allowing you to install the extension on your preferred browser.
4. After installing the extension, you will be directed to the welcome page that provides further instructions.
5. Pin Glasp to your Extensions menu, create an account and start using Glasp.

Creating an account

1. Click on the Glasp icon in your browser's extensions bar.
2. Click the "Log In/Sign up" button on the Glasp dashboard.
3. Click on “Continue with Google”. A Google account is required to sign up for Glasp.
4. Select the Google account you wish to sign up with.
5. Once your account is verified, you will see a popup on the welcome page. Click on the “Go to Home” icon.

Customising preferences for your Glasp account

To get started using Glasp, you must personalise your account by selecting a category of topics you're interested in. By customising your preferences, you can ensure Glasp gives you the content that matters to you, making it easier to stay informed and engaged with the topics that matter most. Here's how:

1. Once you click the “Go to Home” icon from the procedures above, you will be asked to choose topics to personalise your feed.
2. Select 1-10 categories. Then click "Save". Glasp then directs you to the dashboard.

Overview of the Glasp dashboard

After customising your preferences, you will arrive at the Glasp dashboard, which offers a user-friendly interface to help you easily navigate through the extension's features. The dashboard comprises three primary tabs, as shown below:

The Home tab

This tab enables you to follow your preferred authors, and you will likely receive recommendations based on your selected topics. In addition, you can view highlights from the individuals you follow or highlights based on your chosen topics or popular highlights.

The My Highlights tab

The My Highlights tab is an exciting feature of Glasp, which includes three components:

• User Profile: This tab displays all your personal information. You can customise your profile, view your stats, and access your atomic graph here. The stats component provides a chart that tracks your highlights by the day they were created. By clicking on any day on the chart, all highlights made on that day will be displayed in the All Content tab. The atomic graph is a chart that shows all tags which you use to save your highlights, with the most used tag as the biggest item on the chart.

• All Content Tab: This tab presents all your highlights in descending order. You can sort these highlights based on categories such as favourites, saved highlights, and videos.

• Detailed View Tab: This tab displays specific details about any highlight that is clicked on in the All Content tab.

The Explore tab

The Explore tab enables you to access more highlights from the wider community and search for highlights based on topics, authors, or websites.

Features of Glasp

With Glasp, you can do more than highlight text on web pages – you can also annotate, search, and even highlight YouTube video transcripts. You can even share your highlights, see the highlights of others, and do so much more.

Let's explore some key features of Glasp and how to make the most out of this powerful tool.

Highlighting any piece of text

The most common task Glasp performs is to highlight text on any webpage. To do this:

1. Go to the web page you want to highlight.
2. Use your mouse to select the text you want to highlight.
3. When you release, a popup menu will appear.

On this popup menu, you can select the color you want to use to highlight the text. You can also choose to directly add a note, which will automatically highlight the selected piece of text.

Highlighting transcripts of YouTube Videos

One of the standout features of Glasp is its unique ability to highlight the transcripts of YouTube videos. Unlike regular web highlighters, Glasp offers users the convenience of highlighting specific parts of video transcripts for easy reference. To use this feature, follow these simple steps:

1. Go to the page of the youtube video transcript you want to highlight
2. Click on the dropdown menu in the "Transcript and Summary" component in the top right corner of the page.

3. The entire transcript of the YouTube video will be generated along with timestamps. Select the text you want to highlight in the same manner you would highlight text on a webpage.

Adding notes to your highlights

Adding notes to your highlights lets you capture your thoughts and ideas as you highlight any text. With Glasp, adding notes to your highlights is easy and intuitive. Here are the steps to take to add notes to your highlights:

1. On the webpage of the highlighted text, go to the Glasp icon on the extensions menu and find the highlight you want to add a note to.

2. Hover over the particular highlight and click the "Add a note" button, or click on the three dots and select “Add a note.”

3. Type your note in the text field.

Adding tags to the webpage of your highlights

For each specific page you highlight, you can add tags to that page. Tags help you sort what topics your highlights cover. Here's how to do it:

1. Go to the webpage that contains your highlights and click on the Glasp icon on the extensions menu.
2. On the top, you'll see the tags component. Input the tags you want in the box provided.

Copying the entire transcript of a YouTube videoo

You can also copy the entire transcript of a YouTube video and paste in your favourite note-taking app. To accomplish this task:

1. Click on the dropdown menu in the top right corner of the YouTube page. This action generates the entire transcript.
2. Click on the copy icon to copy the entire transcript to your clipboard.

3. Open your favourite note-taking app, such as Notion, and paste the copied transcript. This copied text will also include the YouTube video link, any highlights you've made on the video, and metadata about the YouTube page.

Generating an AI-powered summary based on your highlights

You can generate an AI summary based on your highlights on a particular webpage, as well as the highlights of any other author on any specific webpage. Here's how to do it:

1. Go to the Glasp dashboard and locate the highlights on which you want an AI summary.
2. Click on the webpage to display it in the "Detailed View" component.
3. Click on "Generate AI Summary, " and AI generates a brief summary based on all your highlights on that webpage (or any authors' highlights).

Generating a Youtube summary with ChatGPT

You can also generate an AI summary that summarizes the entire transcript of any YouTube video. Here's how to do it:

1. Click on the dropdown menu in the top right corner of the YouTube page and select the ChatGPT icon in the bar.

2. You’ll be redirected to a new page where an AI summary, based on the transcript, will be generated for you.

Sharing your highlights and saved web pages with others

To share your highlights and saved web pages with others, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Glasp dashboard, click on the “My Highlights” tab.
2. Select the webpage of the particular highlight you want to share.
3. In the Detailed View component, click on the "Share" option.

4. Choose whether you want to share via link, email, or social media.
5. If you wish to share via email, enter the recipient's email address and add a message if desired.
6. If you wish to share via link or social media, copy the link or share it directly to your social media channels.

Exporting your Highlights and Notes to any notetaking app

You can export your highlights to any Notetaking app like Notion, Obsidian, Dropbox, and more. Here's how to do it:

1. Go to the Glasp dashboard and click on the My Highlights tab.
2. Select the webpage of the particular highlight you want to copy.
3. In the “Detailed View” component, click on the "Copy" icon.

4. Go to your note app, and press Ctrl + V or Cmnd + V(for Mac users). The webpage, all highlights on that webpage, as well as metadata of that page will be copied to that note app.

Searching for any Topic or Author on Glasp

You can utilize Glasp's search feature to find any topic or author. To do so:

1. Go to the Home Page and click on the search bar.
2. Enter any topic or author's name in the search bar to get your results.

Find Like-minded people on Glasp

You can find people who have also highlighted the pages that you have, or read the same books you do. To do this:

1. On the Glasp dashboard, click on your profile picture at the extreme top right of the page.

2. Click on “Find like minds”.

   

3. You can choose to find like-minded people with either Articles or Kindles. If you choose Articles, Glasp will show you people who have highlighted the same articles as you, and if you choose Kindles, Glasp will show you people who have read the same books as you on Kindle.

Best Practices for using Glasp

Glasp is a versatile tool for managing and sharing your web content effectively. However, to do this, you need to get the most out of it by ensuring you utilise it correctly.

Here are some best practices to help you get the most out of it:

• Use tags: Organise your highlights and saved web pages into categories using descriptive tags, making it easier to find them later.
• Review your highlights: Set aside time to review them regularly, helping reinforce your understanding of the content and make it easier to recall the information later.
• Follow knowledgeable individuals: Follow people who share your interests or are well-versed in areas you want to explore further. This will enable you to learn from their highlights and get inspired.
• Collaborate with others: Glasp makes collaborating on web content with colleagues or classmates easy. Use this feature to share your notes and annotations with others and get feedback to deepen your understanding of the topic.
• Join the Glasp community: Join the Glasp Slack community to connect with like-minded individuals, share tips, and stay updated on the latest Glasp features and updates.

Try Glasp Today!

Now that you've learned how to use Glasp, it's time to start highlighting your favourite content on the web! Whether you're a student, researcher, or someone who loves reading and sharing exciting points from articles and videos, Glasp can help you stay organised and productive.

Glasp constantly updates and improves its platform based on user feedback and suggestions. This means you can expect new and exciting features to be added to Glasp over time, making it an even more valuable tool for web content curation and sharing.

Why not try it today? Sign up for Glasp and start highlighting, saving, organising and sharing your favourite content immediately. You'll be amazed at how much more efficient and effective your web browsing can be with Glasp at your fingertips!