In a feature discussion titled “Bookmark a selected text,” Don proposes enhancing the bookmarks system by allowing users to bookmark specific text selections within a post. When selecting text, a bookmark option would appear alongside share and quote, saving the selection and enabling navigation to that exact spot when reopened — possibly via an anchor link. codinghorror suggests auto-populating the bookmark name with the selected text. martin notes that bookmark searches currently include both post content and bookmark names, raising potential conflicts with multiple selections from one post. Don clarifies the need to handle such selections separately to avoid search interference and shares a video demonstrating the envisioned behavior. hoangphuctran93 praises the idea, comparing it to Medium’s highlighting feature and noting its educational value for signaling key content. They urge the Discourse team to implement it as a core feature hoangphuctran93. Canapin suggests an unofficial plugin as a temporary alternative, though untested on recent versions. The proposal aims to help users extract and revisit specific information from long posts efficiently.
Bookmarks is a super useful feature and personally I use it many times. I am thinking about a little plus which maybe can built in bookmarks.
Feature: Bookmark with selection. When you select a text in post there will popup a share and quote panel.
In this panel could appear a Bookmark option. So if you click the bookmark it will bookmark the whole post just like now but when you open bookmark it use the highlighted text feature which is now I guess use search if the text matches.
Maybe an anchor will be useful too which goes to the selected text in post when you open bookmark.
Benefits: Really helpful if users can separate a huge post to sections and bookmarks the relevant informations from it.
Yeah that might cause problems Is that possible to handle these bookmarks selections separately? This way we can create more bookmarks from a single post and restrict the search to these selected text bookmarks.
I mean when you click the bookmarked post on Bookmarks page than it will jump to the exact selected section in the post.
I made a video about the original idea. I imagined something like this.
It is great. I hope you have found the solution and can share it with me? I’m looking for a solution inspired by highlighting on medium. Also, this is a good way to give a good signal to an article and help the users behind can easily recognize the main content in the topic (because I am running a forum related to education).
Is that possible to handle these bookmarks selections separately? This way we can create more bookmarks from a single post and restrict the search to these selected text bookmarks.