Highlighting and Sharing

Most publishing tools treat readers as passive consumers. Marked Share turns every shared document into a collaborative review surface with built-in highlighting and margin notes.

Highlighting for Everyone

Anyone with permission to view a document can annotate it—no account or login required.

There are two easy ways to highlight:

1. Selection Menu: Select any string of text. A floating toolbar appears with options to Highlight or Comment.
2. Keyboard Shortcuts: Press h to toggle a highlight on the currently active block, or press c to attach a comment.

If you are doing a deep proofread, turn on Highlight as I select in the Highlights menu. Every selection you drag across will instantly become an active highlight without extra clicks.

Notes and the Comments Sidebar

When you attach comments to highlights:

• A speech-bubble indicator appears in the margin next to the annotated passage.
• The Comments Sidebar displays all notes in chronological order alongside the document.
• Clicking any note smoothly scrolls to its exact passage in the text.
• Notes and highlights save automatically in real time—no save buttons required.

Isolated Highlight Sets

Your annotations never overwrite anyone else’s. Every reader creates their own distinct Highlight Set.

When you share your annotations, Marked Share generates an annotated link with a ?hl=<id> query parameter. Anyone following that link sees the document with your specific highlights and comments overlaid.

The Reviews Panel for Authors

If you are the author of a document, you have access to the Reviews panel.

Here you can:

• See all highlight sets submitted by readers and editors.
• Inspect reader signatures and feedback in one consolidated view.
• Import selected review highlights directly into your own master highlight set.
• Export annotations to take them back into local tools.