Quote & Highlight Vault
Save book highlights and memorable quotes.
Overview
The quote and highlight vault is a private library for the sentences that stick with you. Save quotes from books, articles, talks, podcasts, or your own conversations along with the author, the source, an optional page reference, and tags that help you find them again. The vault is built to be skimmed and revisited rather than just hoarded, so quotes appear as proper blockquotes with a left rule, the author and source presented underneath as quiet metadata.
The point is to give the highlights you collect a second life. Once you have a few dozen quotes in the vault, the search box filters across text, author, source, and tags, while a random-pick button surfaces one quote at a time for serendipitous rereading. It is the digital equivalent of a commonplace book: low-friction to write into, easy to mine when you need a quote for an essay, a talk, or a moment of reflection.
How it works
Add a quote by pasting the text into the quote textarea and filling in any of the optional fields: source, author, page, and tags. The quote text itself is required and can hold up to two thousand characters, enough for a paragraph rather than just a sentence. Tags are free text, comma-separated by convention, and become part of the search index so a query for "stoicism" pulls up everything you have tagged that way.
A copy button on each row sends the formatted quote and author to your clipboard as a single line, ready for pasting into a document or message. The random-pick button rolls one of the currently visible quotes into a highlighted card, which makes the vault feel like a deck you can shuffle when you need a spark.
Examples
- Book highlights: Save a passage from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations with source "Meditations", author "Marcus Aurelius", page "VII.1", and tag "stoicism".
- Article keepers: Save a line from a long-form essay with source set to the article title, author set to the writer, and tag "writing-craft".
- Talk notes: Capture a memorable sentence from a conference talk you watched, with the speaker as author and tags like "design, ux".
- Personal mottos: Save a line a mentor said, leaving the author field as their name and tagging it "advice" so it surfaces on a random pick.
FAQ
Is the source field required?
No. Only the quote text is required. Everything else, including author, source, page, and tags, is optional, so you can save half-remembered fragments and add metadata later.
How does the random pick choose a quote?
It picks uniformly at random from whatever the current search filter shows, so combining a tag search with random pick is a great way to get a fresh stoic or writing quote on demand.
Can I copy with author included?
Yes. The copy button writes the quote surrounded by quotes and appends an em-dash plus the author when one is set, ready for direct pasting.
What characters do the tags accept?
Tags are plain text. Use commas to separate multiple tags so the search box can match either of them.
Will long quotes wrap correctly?
Yes. The blockquote layout wraps to the container width and preserves line breaks for multi-paragraph quotes.