# 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")\
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**Author:** ![Don](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/don/32/228726_2.png) [@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")

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> [@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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