Snip It — Note Manager

A Chrome extension (Manifest V3) that lets you select text on any web page, save it with a right-click, then find, search and export your notes later.

Features

• Quick capture: select text → right-click → "Save as note".

• Popup: list of notes with date, source (page title + link back to it), instant search, copy to clipboard, delete.

• Markdown export: download all notes as a single .md file.

• Multi-language UI: English by default, with a language switcher (English / Français) in the options page — independent from the browser's own language.

  

• Options:

  • Include or exclude the source title/URL in each note.
  • Toggle a visual confirmation badge on save.
  • Clear all stored notes.

• 100% local: notes are stored with chrome.storage.local, nothing is sent to any external server.

Tech stack

• Manifest V3 (service worker, no persistent background page)
• Vanilla JavaScript, no framework or dependency
• chrome.contextMenus, chrome.storage, chrome.downloads
• Lightweight custom i18n layer (i18n.js) plus native _locales for the Chrome Web Store listing (name/description)

Local install (developer mode)

1. Open chrome://extensions in Chrome.
2. Enable Developer mode (top right).
3. Click Load unpacked.
4. Select this project's folder.

Project structure

manifest.json         # extension configuration
background.js         # service worker: context menu + note saving
i18n.js                # shared EN/FR message dictionary + helpers
popup.html/.js/.css   # popup UI (list, search, export)
options.html/.js/.css # settings page (incl. language switcher)
_locales/en, _locales/fr  # store-level localization (name, description)
icons/                # extension icons (16/32/48/128 px)

Ideas for future improvements

• Sync notes across devices via chrome.storage.sync
• Tags / categories on notes
• Keyboard shortcut to open the popup directly