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A Safari extension for Mac

Read the web like you mark up a book.

Et al. is a Safari extension for Mac. Highlight text on web pages, add notes, and find what you saved later in your Library. On supported Macs, optional AI that runs on your Mac can help with summaries, questions about your highlights, search and name suggestions, and citation details. Your highlights stay on your Mac.

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Mark it up

Four colors. Notes when you need them.

Select text on a page, then choose yellow, green, blue, or pink. Et al. saves the highlight so it can show up again when you come back. Because the web changes, Et al. tries not to put a highlight in the wrong place. Everything you save still stays in the Library.

Yellow Green Blue Pink

Highlight in a click

Select text and pick a color from the small menu. You can also set up Safari extension shortcuts if you prefer using the keyboard.

Notes that stay close

Add a note to any highlight. Notes show up with the highlight and can be searched later in the Library.

Built for the keyboard

Safari lets you set shortcuts for highlighting, adding notes, and turning Et al. on or off for a page.

Find it again

A Library for everything you’ve marked.

The Library is where your saved highlights live. Open it from the toolbar popup for a quick look, or open it in a full tab when you want more space. Search your highlights, notes, tags, and page titles. You can also use folders, tags, and colors to narrow the list.

Search across everything

Search the text you highlighted, your notes, your tags, and the page titles from one field.

Folders and tags

Use folders and tags when they help. You can keep things simple or organize more as your Library grows.

Export when you need to

Export highlights as Markdown or CSV. You can also create citation exports from the Library.

Optional AI

Extra help on supported Macs.

On supported Macs, Et al. can use optional AI features that run on your Mac. They can help with a few small tasks using the highlights you saved. If your Mac does not support these features, the rest of Et al. still works.

Quick summary

Pick highlights and get a short summary based only on those saved highlights.

Ask a question

Ask a question about your saved highlights. Et al. answers from what you saved, not from the open web.

Search suggestions

When the search box is empty, Et al. can suggest searches based on what is already in your Library.

Name suggestions

When you make a folder or tag, Et al. can suggest names. It does not move highlights unless you choose to move them.

Cite it

Academic citations, ready when you need them.

Et al. can keep page details for what you highlight. You can review and edit those details, then export citations in APA, MLA, BibTeX, RIS, or CSL-JSON. On supported Macs, Et al. can suggest missing details. You should still check those suggestions.

Designed for Mac

Designed for Safari on your Mac.

Et al. was made for Safari on Mac from the start. It follows the way macOS apps usually work, with familiar controls, simple settings, and light and dark mode support.

Yours, on your Mac

Local by default. No account, ever.

  • No accounts to make. Nothing to sign up for, no password to forget.
  • No tracking. I don’t collect anything about you, ever.
  • No cloud. Your highlights, notes, folders, and tags all stay on your Mac.
  • AI that stays on your Mac. On supported Macs, optional AI runs there too.
  • Pay once. When Et al. arrives on the App Store, it will be a single purchase.
Hello

Greetings from Baltimore.

Et al. is made by one person. Me. I’m an independent developer in Baltimore, Maryland. I’m building a tool I want to use myself: a simple way to save, find, and cite the parts of the web that matter. Thank you for supporting an independent developer.

Pick up a pencil.

Et al. is getting ready for the Mac App Store. Right now, it’s in beta on TestFlight as Et al. - Web Notes.

Coming soon to the Mac App Store