How to automatically show notes (popup) for a webpage? #

You can configure Page Notes to automatically show notes for a web page by changing the “Automatically show notes pop-up” setting in the options page. There are 3 possible values of this setting:

How can I ignore certain parts of the URL while saving and accessing notes? #

You can configure Page Notes to ignore certain parts of the URL, e.g. query parameters and hash, while saving and retrieving notes by changing the “Ignore in URL” setting in the options page. This setting has 3 possible values:

You can configure a default value for this setting as well as add site-specific overrides. For example, you can set the default ignore-in-url value to “Query parameters & hash” and add an override for sites that use query parameters, e.g. youtube.com to “Hash”.

Can I add a keyboard shortcut to open the notes #

Yes, it’s a built-in feature in chrome. Visit chrome://extensions/shortcuts to create a shortcut for any extension. For example I use ^(Ctrl) + ⌘ (Cmd) + P (on Mac) for Page Notes.

What Are Site-Level Notes? #

Site-level notes are applied to all pages with the same hostname. For example, if you add a site-level note for github.com, that note will apply to all pages on github.com, including https://github.com/manugarg/pagenotes-issues, for example. If a page has both page-level and site-level notes, the page-level notes take priority.

You can mark a note as site-level when you edit it. You can also change the default setting through the options page.

Backup and Restore Notes #

You can back up your page notes from the options page. The backup is saved to disk in CSV format. You can also restore notes from a backup from the same, options, page.

How to enable dark mode icon #

Extension will automatically switch to dark mode icons if you change OS settings to dark mode. You can change this behavior by changing the ‘Use dark mode icons’ setting:

Can I disable icon animation and badge #

Yes, you can easily disable icon animation and ‘blue’ badge from the options page.

How to fix sync errors #

If sync to Google Drive stops working after being set up correctly and working well at least once, extension’s badge icon will become red to indicate that.

If you’re not connected to the internet, for example working offline on a plane, you can just ignore the red signal. If you’re connected to the internet, you should look at the debug info on the options page to figure out what’s wrong.

If you see a message like this:

Error: Error while refreshing access token! Status: 400

Your refresh token has become invalid for some reason – for example, you might have revoked the permission in Google account accidentally, or the refresh token itself might have expired if not used for a really long time.

The best way to resolve this, and in fact most sync errors, is to just setup sync again. You can do that by clicking on ‘Stop Sync’ and then ‘Setup Sync’ in the options page. It’s an entirely safe operation, but I’d still recommend to take the backup of local notes first, just to be super sure.