The editor

Nora Feld, Editor

Nora Feld edits Awesome Highlighter. She writes or rewrites every page on the site, tests each instruction in the browsers and apps it names, and answers the messages that arrive through the contact page. When a page says it was reviewed in a given month, she is the person who reviewed it.

Background. Nora has spent her working life helping people read well on screens. She began in the research-skills service of an academic library, running workshops for first-year students on finding, reading and marking sources, and moved on to writing help documentation for reading and annotation software. Both jobs taught the same lesson: most people highlight far too much, and almost nobody is shown how to use what they marked. The study pages here, starting with the review of what research says about highlighting, are the workshop she wishes she had been able to give.

How she works. Every guide is written from a real test: she follows each step on the devices named, notes the browser version, and records where an instruction breaks. Study advice is checked against the published research it cites, which is linked in the sources list at the foot of each page. Pages about tools name products factually and say plainly when one of this site's own tools is not the right answer. Nothing on the site is sponsored, and no product pays to appear.

What she writes about. Highlighting and linking text on the web, in PDFs and on phones; the browser standard behind highlight links, explained in how text fragment links work; study technique; and, increasingly, the reading skills that matter when fluent text is cheap to produce, such as checking a source claim by claim and keeping drafts as a record of how you wrote.

What she does not do. She does not write reviews in exchange for access or payment, does not accept guest posts or link placements, and does not make claims about how accurate any detection product is. When a question is outside what the site covers, the answer says so and points to a better source.

Corrections and questions. If something on a page is wrong, out of date, or did not work in your browser, write to her through the contact page with the page, the step and your browser version. Confirmed corrections are made on the page and the reviewed date is updated. The about page explains who owns the site and how it is funded.

Subjects she covers

• Reading and annotating on screens
• Text fragment links and browser highlighting
• Study techniques and the research behind them
• Source checking and lateral reading
• Writing process records and disclosure of tool use

Reviewed September 2026