DocAnnotate — Semantic Annotation for Google Docs

You write better research when your thinking lives inside the document.DocAnnotate adds a full semantic annotation layer directly on top of Google Docs — without touching your document's content. Highlight passages in 6 colors, attach margin notes, link citations, tag sections, and search everything from a dedicated sidebar panel.Your annotations live in your browser, persist across sessions, and never leave your machine unless you export them. No cloud. No monthly fee. No clutter.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎨 WHAT IT DOES🟡 Highlight in 6 semantic colorsYellow for general notes, Green for findings, Blue for definitions, Pink for questions, Orange for action items, Purple for citations — each color is a signal, not decoration.📝 Margin NotesAttach freeform notes to any highlighted passage. Notes appear in the sidebar, searchable and sortable.🔗 Citation LinkingAttach a URL or citation string to any highlight. Jump to sources directly from the annotation panel.🏷️ Tagging SystemTag annotations with custom labels (chapter-1, urgent, hypothesis) and filter by tag in the sidebar.🔍 Full-Text SearchSearch across all your annotation text, notes, citations, and tags in real time.📤 Export to JSONDownload all annotations for a document as structured JSON. Import them back on any machine.🗂️ Sidebar PanelChrome's native SidePanel opens alongside your doc — no popups, no overlays blocking your text.🖱️ Right-Click to AnnotateSelect text, right-click, choose "Highlight with DocAnnotate" and pick a color — never leave the keyboard.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📦 WHAT'S INCLUDED✅ The DocAnnotate Chrome Extension (15-file production source, Manifest V3)✅ Full architecture documentation (9-section blueprint .docx)✅ Unit test suite (8 tests, zero dependencies)✅ Install guide (plain-English step-by-step setup)✅ Lifetime updates to this version✅ MIT license for personal use ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━👤 WHO IT'S FOR🎓 Academic researchers managing literature reviews in Google Docs✍️ Writers and journalists annotating source material⚖️ Law students marking up case studies and legal briefs🧑‍💼 Consultants color-coding client documents by theme📚 Students building structured study notes🧪 Developers who want to understand Chrome Extension MV3 architecture by example ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⚙️ TECHNICAL NOTES→ Requires Google Chrome (or any Chromium browser)→ Works on any Google Docs document you have access to→ All data stored locally — chrome.storage.local + IndexedDB→ No external API calls, no accounts, no tracking→ Manifest V3 compliant — future-proof for Chrome Web Store policies→ Annotations persist across browser restarts

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