

The “Archive” and “Trash bin” options let you manage completed and discarded tasks. You can group notes, encrypt them, change their background color and even lock (write-protect) tabs to prevent unauthorized changes. QuickFox supports tabs for simultaneous editing of multiple notes. You can both import and export notes to those services, as well as email and print them directly from QuickFox. QuickFox takes synchronization one step further by introducing support for Dropbox, Google Docs, Sugarsync and Evernote. Last but not least, FloatNotes supports Firefox Sync, which means you can access your notes from any device that has Firefox on it. If you find yourself creating dozens of notes, you can easily manage them from the Notes Manager, where you can search for notes, edit their appearance and even batch-delete them. You can also enable the option to hide all notes with one click.

The Preferences dialog lets you perform basic adjustments to the size, color and font of your notes. To edit a note, just double-click it (red border indicates the editing mode is activated). make it stay in the same position while you scroll), you can pin it by hovering over the note’s border and pressing the pin button. Notes can be moved, resized and minimized to keep them out of the way. It’s also possible to make the note visible on all websites or only on subpages of a selected domain. This means that you can annotate any website, save your comments in FloatNotes and return to them whenever you load that page again. Apart from this, FloatNotes can remember the exact position of notes on a website and save notes only for particular websites. The most interesting one is support for Markdown formatting of your notes. FloatNotesįloatNotes is a practical addon that combines ease of use with advanced features. All addons were tested with the latest Firefox version (34.0.5), but they should work with older versions, too. If not stated otherwise, they can be installed from the official Firefox addons website by clicking the familiar, green “Add to Firefox” button.

Now it’s time to look at what Firefox offers.įrom lightweight snippets to full-fledged note management, these note-taking addons vary in functionality and complexity. Google Chrome makes this possible with apps and extensions we previously reviewed. Sometimes it’s easier to take notes directly in the browser than open a separate application or a text file.
