Last Text Bookmark

You’re reading a long article, documentation page, or research paper in your browser. You get interrupted — a meeting, a phone call, end of the day — and you close the tab or reload the page.

Now you’ve lost your place.

There’s no built-in way in Chrome to bookmark where you were reading on a page. Traditional bookmarks save the URL, not your position. Browser history? Same thing — just the URL. You’re back at the top of a 10,000-word article with no idea where you left off.

Think about how often this actually happens:

1. You’re halfway through a technical tutorial and your browser crashes. You reopen the page and spend 5 minutes scrolling trying to find the exact paragraph you were on.

2. You’re researching across 15 open tabs. You close a few to free up memory. When you reopen them, you’ve lost your reading position in every single one.

3. You highlight a key passage to come back to later — but highlights disappear the moment you navigate away. There’s no persistence.

4. You try using Ctrl+F to search for the phrase you remember, but you can only recall a vague keyword. You cycle through dozens of matches before finding the right spot.

5. You want to share the exact passage you found with a colleague, but copying the URL just sends them to the top of the page. They have to hunt for it themselves.

Every knowledge worker, student, and researcher deals with this friction daily. It’s a small annoyance that compounds into real lost time and broken focus. The browser was built to navigate between pages — not to remember where you are within one.

Last Text Bookmark is a lightweight Chrome extension that lets you bookmark your exact reading position on any webpage — just by selecting text.

Here’s how it works:

1. Select any text on a page. That’s it. No buttons, no menus, no extra clicks.

2. The extension automatically saves that text as your bookmark for that URL, highlighted in aqua blue with a toast confirmation.

3. Reload the page, reopen it tomorrow, open it in a new tab — the extension instantly scrolls to your bookmarked text and highlights it again.

4. Want to share the exact passage? Click the extension popup and copy a shareable link that takes anyone directly to the highlighted text.

5. One bookmark per page keeps things simple — select new text and the old bookmark is replaced. No clutter, no management overhead.

The result:

You never lose your place again. Reading long content on the web becomes as seamless as putting a physical bookmark in a book — except this one finds itself automatically when you open the page back up.

Under the hood:

1. 100% local storage — no accounts, no servers, no tracking. Your data stays on your device.

2. Zero configuration — install it and it just works on every webpage.

3. Built with Manifest V3 for modern Chrome compatibility and performance.