# Bookmark a selected text
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-a-selected-text/200468
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** bookmarks
**Created:** [August 15, 2021, 8:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-a-selected-text/200468 "2021-08-15T08:37:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2021, 8:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-a-selected-text/200468/1 "2021-08-15T08:37:00Z")
**Hello,**
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. 🙂
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2022, 9:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-a-selected-text/200468/2 "2022-01-17T21:39:37Z")
This is a nice idea @martin – it could automatically populate the bookmark text with the selection?
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### Author:  [@martin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/martin)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-a-selected-text/200468/3 "2022-01-17T21:52:55Z")
That does sound good the only part I’m not sure of is this:
> [@Don](#):
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> Maybe an anchor will be useful too which goes to the selected text in post when you open bookmark.
Also, I’m not sure if you aware @Don but when you search bookmarks we look in both the post content _and_ the bookmark name.
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### Author:  [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2022, 10:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-a-selected-text/200468/4 "2022-01-18T10:44:13Z")
> [@martin](#):
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> when you search bookmarks we look in both the post content _and_ the bookmark name.
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.
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> [@Don](#):
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> Maybe an anchor will be useful too which goes to the selected text in post when you open bookmark.
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. 🙂
Thank you 🙂
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### Author:  [@hoangphuctran93](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hoangphuctran93)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2022, 8:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-a-selected-text/200468/5 "2022-12-28T20:32:55Z")
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).
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### Author:  [@hoangphuctran93](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hoangphuctran93)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 1:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-a-selected-text/200468/6 "2023-02-13T01:43:07Z")
I really hope Discourse team can develop this feature soon, and add core theme.
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 11:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-a-selected-text/200468/7 "2023-05-17T11:14:44Z")
Hey @Don 🙂
Would this plugin be a good enough alternative? It’s unofficial and I didn’t test it on the last Discourse version, though:
> [@Auto Bookmarks plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-bookmarks-plugin/110250):
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> discourse-auto-bookmarks discourse-auto-bookmarks is a Discourse plugin for adding automatic HTML bookmarks to topics and easily get a sharable link which points at specific parts of the text. Installation Follow [Install a Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-a-plugin/19157) how-to from the official Discourse Meta, using git clone https://github.com/acaporrini/discourse-auto-bookmarks.git as the plugin command. Usage Hover over any h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 header in your topics, a small bookmark icon will appear: Right click the boo…