Huequill: collect, count and export highlights in Google Docs™

Huequill finds every highlighted passage in your document, groups it by color or by your own labels, counts it, and exports it to a new document. It reads the highlights you already made, so you just open it and scan. Collecting, counting and exporting to a new Doc are free.

What it does

• Collect highlights: every highlighted passage, in the body, tables, headers, footers and footnotes, and in every tab if you want. A highlight that runs across two paragraphs stays one passage.
• Group and count: by color or label ("Claim", "Evidence", "Theme A"), in document order, or by section heading, with passages and words per color.
• Find your place: click any passage to select it in the document. Filter by color, search inside the highlights, or show only tables or footnotes.
• Export: a new Google Docs™ document with a heading for each color and the passages kept in their highlight colors, with optional links back to each passage. Or copy everything as plain text.
• Highlighters: one-click labeled colors for the selected text, four starter sets (essay, research coding, editing pass, study notes), and a set you can share with a class as one line of text.

How it works

1. Open a Google Docs™ document with highlights.
2. Choose Extensions > Huequill > Collect highlights. The scan starts by itself, with a progress bar on long documents.
3. Click a color to filter, click a passage to jump to it, or click New Google Doc to export.

Free and Pro

Scanning, counts, filters, jump-to, copy, export to a new Doc and highlighter sets are free. Huequill Pro adds export to Google Sheets™ and CSV, a summary table in your document, changing or removing one color everywhere, and a saved library of highlighter sets. Pro costs $3.99 a month, $29 a year, $15 for a 6-month Semester Pass, or $49 once (lifetime access; see our lifetime access policy), and is bought from inside the add-on.

Private by design

Huequill can only see the document you're using it in and the export files it creates, not the rest of your Drive. There's no server and no tracking; the only outside request besides creating your export file in your own Drive is checking a Pro license key with Gumroad. Read the privacy policy and terms.

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