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Web App — Grid, Search & Filters ​

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  • 0:02 Everything you saved. Here is how you find anything again in your library. Your dashboard holds every page, highlight and note you ever saved, and the left side lets you jump between them.
  • 0:10 Switch what you see. Pages gives you the articles you saved, Highlights every single passage, and there are the same lists for your tags, websites, authors, colors and images.
  • 0:18 Grid, list or masonry. How you look at them is up to you. Simply open the view menu and switch between grid, list and masonry, and the choice is remembered for each section.
  • 0:25 Search inside a view. The search field on top searches what you are currently looking at, so you can find a passage again even when you only remember one word of it.
  • 0:32 Filter and combine. Next to it sits the filter bar, where you add a tag, a website, an author or a color. Add a second one and you can decide whether an item has to match all of them or just any of them. This part is Ultimate.
  • 0:43 Back to everything. Clear all filters and your whole library is back, exactly as you left it.

The Web Highlights web app is where you browse and manage everything you have synced. This page covers the grid views, search, and advanced filtering that work across all sections of the app.

Plan requirements

Advanced filters (filter bar, combining filters, quick filters from the search field) and related power-user features are Ultimate capabilities in the in-app plan comparison. In offline mode, opening the filter UI shows an upgrade path instead of full filter controls. Always check Settings → Plan or Pricing for your account.

Use the left sidebar to switch between entity types. Choosing an item updates the main grid to that collection. Above the list, Home takes you to the dashboard, Search opens the cross-type search and Learning opens your learning dashboard.

Under Filters the sections are: Pages, Highlights, Notes, Tags, Websites, Authors, Colors, Images, AI Summaries, AI Chats, Documents and Collections — each with the number of items it holds.

Drill-down

Clicking an item in some views acts as a filter. For example, clicking a Tag shows all pages/highlights with that tag; clicking a Website shows everything you highlighted on that domain.

Grid views and sorting ​

You can change how items are displayed:

  • Grid, List, and Masonry layouts (per entity type).
  • Sort options (e.g. by date or title) via the view menu.

Your choice of view mode and sort is remembered per entity type, so you can use a list for Pages and a grid for Highlights without reconfiguring each time.

  • The search field in the outlet filters content in the current context.
  • On the dedicated Search view, search can span multiple entity types (e.g. pages, highlights, AI summaries), depending on your data.

Filter bar (advanced) ​

Open the filter control next to the search area to refine what appears in the grid.

Adding filters ​

From the filter dropdown you add a criterion first and then its value:

  • Type, Tag, Page, Website, Author, Format, Color and Date — each opens a searchable list of the values you actually have, with the number of items behind each one.
  • A Has note / No note segment sits in the same dropdown, and the learning view adds the card-type segment (All / Flashcards / Highlights).

Exact options depend on the current entity type (e.g. color filters apply in highlight-oriented contexts).

AND and OR between values ​

For several filter types (e.g. multiple tags), filters can be combined with:

  • AND — an item must match all active values (narrower result set).
  • OR — an item may match any of the active values (broader result set).

Toggle the logical operator in the filter dropdown when multiple values apply to the same kind of filter — the chip between two values reads AND or OR, and one click switches it. The UI shows active filter badges so you can see what is applied.

Quick filters from the search input ​

On supported plans, you can add certain filters from the search field using quick syntax (for example, typing a tag: prefix and selecting a tag). This is equivalent to adding a filter from the filter menu and respects the same AND logic when stacking criteria.

Clearing filters ​

Use Clear on the filter bar to remove active filters and restore the full grid for the current view.

Custom visible fields ​

On Ultimate, you can control which columns or fields are visible in the grid. Open the view type dropdown (next to the layout selector) to see toggles for each field.

The available fields depend on the entity type you are viewing. Here are some examples:

Entity typeToggleable fields
PagesTitle, Description, Website URL, Website Favicon, Date, Footer (tags, notes count)
HighlightsText, Notes, Tags, Color, Date, Footer
NotesHighlight text (off by default), Tags, Date, Website URL, Website Favicon
DocumentsTitle, Description, Website URL, Website Favicon, Date, Content length, Download status
AI SummariesPage title, Summary text
AI ChatsTitle, Last message
ColorsHighlights count

Toggle a field off to hide it from all items in the current view. Your choices persist so you don't have to reconfigure after navigating away and back.

Add Content ​

Ultimate includes Add Content — manually add pages or material to your library so your research is not limited to what you browse with the extension. Paste your own text or import any URL. See the dedicated Add Content page for details.

Export to PDF & HTML ​

Ultimate includes exporting your research to PDF and HTML (along with other formats). The export entry points live in the extension sidebar and related menus; see Reader mode for an overview of saving pages and using export options.

Further reading ​

For practical walkthroughs and examples, see Use cases and the blog. This page is the maintained reference for grid, search, and filter behavior.