MAKE NOTES IN YOUR BOOKS

Use Highlighted to save passages from books

IT WILL TAKE

YOU WILL LEARN How to save and organise phrases in your books using the Highlighted app

YOU’LL NEED Highlighted (free), iOS 14 or later

If you enjoy reading, you’ve probably got shelves of books with folded pages, scribbled notes, and highlighted phrases running through them. It’s a good bet that the more of these you have in a book, the more loved it is.

The problem with this is that all this loving defacement can, well, deface your collection. But there’s another issue: with notes and highlighted passages in the books themselves, there’s no central repository for all the interesting and insightful things you have saved.

But there is if you use an app called Highlighted. Get this on your phone and you can add books to your collection, scan pages, highlight your favourite passages, then sort them with tags and mark them as favourites. Then if you want to revisit any of your saved text, it’s all just a few taps away.

Highlighted is free, with no in-app purchases to worry about. Here, we’ll show you how to master its features. Alex Blake