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@i-ayushsingh i-ayushsingh released this 19 Jul 09:43
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Inkr v0.1.0-alpha.1 (Pre-release)

We are excited to share the first alpha pre-release of Inkr—a quiet, local-first browser extension for leaves notes, highlights, and annotations directly on live webpages. It is designed to look and feel like writing in the margins of a physical book.

✨ Features included in this Pre-release

  • 📝 Marginal Notes: Place sticky notes with debounced auto-save directly alongside text.
  • 🎨 Smart Highlights: Highlight text passages and style them on the fly.
  • 📍 Pins & Circles: Drop visual pins or draw highlight rings to mark key details.
  • 🔍 Side Panel Search: Quickly search, filter, and jump through annotations across all pages.
  • 🔒 Privacy-First: 100% of your data stays in your browser's local sandbox profile (chrome.storage.local). No accounts, no servers, no tracking.
  • ⚡ Offline-Ready: Export and import your annotations at any time as JSON backups.
  • 🌐 SPA Support: Automatically detects client-side routing on sites like Wikipedia or GitHub, reloading your annotations dynamically without page refreshes.

⚠️ Crucial Usage Limits

  • Allowed Domain Allowlist (160+ Curated Sites): To ensure 100% anchoring precision and avoid clashing with complex UI cursors, the alpha is limited to 160+ curated websites optimized for reading, study, and documentation (e.g. Wikipedia, MDN Web Docs, arXiv, StackOverflow, Medium, GitHub). For the full directory, see SUPPORTED_DOMAINS.md.
  • The 5-Website History Limit: To prevent browser lag and minimize storage footprint, Inkr automatically retains annotations for only the 5 most recently active/updated website domains. Creating annotations on a 6th domain will prune annotations from the oldest active domain. Please export your JSON backups to save important annotations permanently!

🚀 How to Install and Test

  1. Download the inkr-v0.1.0-alpha.1.zip asset attached below and extract (unzip) it.
  2. In Google Chrome, go to chrome://extensions/.
  3. Toggle Developer mode to ON in the top-right corner.
  4. Click Load unpacked in the top-left and select the extracted folder (which contains the manifest.json).
  5. Click the puzzle icon in Chrome's toolbar and Pin Inkr for easy access.
  6. Open Wikipedia and start annotating!
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