Cricket Capture 1.0.6 for Firefox and Floorp: Full Description and How-to

Cricket Capture 1.0.6 for Firefox and Floorp is the newest build of the Cricket Capture browser add-on. This page has the full feature description and the complete How-to that is built into the extension.

Full feature description (version 1.0.6)

Cricket Capture is part of the Cricket Advanced Productivity Suite. It helps you read carefully, keep what matters, and share it, without sending your data anywhere. This is the Firefox / Floorp build, version 1.0.6. It works on any site. Needs Firefox or Floorp 140 or newer.

Highlight While You Read

• Select text and a small, see-through bubble with a blue pen appears beside the paragraph (not on top of the text) and stays with that paragraph as you scroll.
• Click the pen to highlight in the last color you used, or click a color dot: yellow (the default), light blue, light red, light orange, light green, or light turquoise.
• You can also right-click and choose "Cricket: highlight selection", or press Alt+H. If Alt+H opens the Help menu, change the shortcut in about:addons (gear icon, then Manage Extension Shortcuts).
• Each highlight gets a small N bubble next to it. Click N, or the highlight itself, to add or edit a note, change the color, or remove the highlight. A filled-in N means a note is already attached. The highlight and its note travel together into the Page Manifest, into Save, and into Post.

Page Manifest

• Your highlights, their colors and notes, and unsaved popup fields stay anchored to the page, even after you leave it, close the tab, or restart the browser.
• Each page's manifest is stored under the page address, with tracking codes and the # part removed, so the same article is recognized even when the link has tracking parameters.
• Highlights are restored when you revisit a page, with retries at 1, 2.5, and 6 seconds if the article body loads late.
• On sites that switch articles without reloading, the add-on watches the address and loads the matching Page Manifest, so highlights are not saved under the wrong article.
• The page store is cleared when you click Save capture (the saved capture keeps them in the Library), or when you click Clear this page in the popup (click it twice to confirm). Saved Library captures are not touched.

Save Capture

• Click the Cricket icon. The popup shows the title, author, date and link (you can edit any of them; if the author or date is not detected automatically, type it in), plus your highlights and their notes. Add tags and notes if you like, then click Save capture.
• The "Save capture to" setting stays in place until you change it: Cricket Library (this browser), or the Library plus a JSON file, or the Library plus a line-keyed text file.

Post Capture

Post capture is a separate action. Pick a destination each time. Nothing is ever posted for you.

• X: choose which highlight to quote, type your own one-line take, and edit the draft. The counter shows the X length out of 280, with links counted as 23 characters. Click "Open in X" to open X with the draft filled in. You still press Post yourself. Copy copies the draft. Copy as email copies a subject line plus the article details and highlights, ready to paste into an email.
• NoteCase / NoteTab Pro: copies or downloads line-keyed text. Every line starts with a key such as @#title#@, @#source#@, @#highlight#@, @#note#@, @#tag#@, or @#summary#@, so NoteCase Pro scripts can sort the capture.
• Google Docs: copies formatted text and opens a new Google Doc. Paste it there.
• Cricket Collaboration: copies the capture so you can paste it into your collaboration space. Direct posting is not wired up in this version.
• Slack: copies a Slack-ready message (title, source link, each highlight with its attached note, tags and notes) and opens Slack. Paste it into the channel or DM. You can save a Slack workspace URL (the default is the Cricket Productivity workspace). If that field is blank, Slack opens at app.slack.com instead. Direct posting to a chosen channel or DM comes with Enhanced Cricket Capture.
• Post to Grok Bot (Enhanced users only): direct posting to Grok Bot comes with Enhanced Cricket Capture. In this standard build, the capture is copied so you can paste it into Grok Bot yourself.

Your Local Library

• Open Library shows every capture in its own tab, with its highlights, notes and tags.
• Search titles, authors, highlights and notes; click tags to filter.
• Write an X post from a saved capture the same way as in the popup. Open in X fills it in; you still press Post yourself.
• Export to JSON (a full backup), Markdown, CSV (for Excel), or line-keyed text. Import JSON restores a backup, or moves or shares captures with someone else.
• Built-in How-to: click "? How it works" in the popup for help inside the extension. It explains the pen, colors, notes, Page Manifest, and Post targets.

Private By Design

• All captures and highlights are stored only in your browser's local extension storage, on this computer. They are not your regular bookmarks, they are not synced to your other devices, and the add-on does not send your data to a server.
• No account, no servers, no analytics, no tracking.
• Permissions used: storage (saves your data locally), contextMenus (the right-click item), activeTab and scripting (read the current article when you click the icon), clipboardWrite (copy a draft or a posted capture). The highlighter also runs on web pages so it can re-apply saved highlights, which is why the browser says it can "read data on websites."
• Tip: export JSON regularly. Removing the extension, or clearing the browser's extension or site data, deletes your captures.

How-to: How Cricket Capture works

What is a capture?

A capture is one saved article: its title, author, date and link, every passage you highlighted, plus your own notes and tags (labels like gold or Bessent). Each highlight can also carry its own attached note.

The pen bubble and colors

Select text in an article. A small, see-through bubble with a blue pen appears beside the paragraph, not on top of the text, and stays with that paragraph as you scroll. Click the pen to highlight in the last color you used (yellow is the default). Or click one of the six color dots: yellow, light blue, light red, light orange, light green, or light turquoise. You can also highlight from the right-click menu or with Alt+H (that uses the last color). Click a highlight later to change its color. Colors are stored in the Page Manifest and come back when you return to the page.

The N note bubble

Each highlight gets a small N bubble anchored next to it. Click N (or the highlight itself) to add or edit a note, change the color, or remove the highlight. If a note is already attached, the N bubble fills in. The highlight and its note travel together into the Page Manifest, into Save capture, and into Post capture.

The Page Manifest

Highlights, their colors and notes, and anything you type in the popup (tags, notes, your take, the draft) are kept with that page as you go. Leave the page, close the tab, or restart the browser, and they are waiting when you come back. They are cleared from the page store when you click Save capture (your saved capture keeps them in the Library), or when you click Clear this page in the popup (click it twice to confirm). If an article's text has changed, a highlight that can no longer be found is kept in the list but not shown on the page.

Save capture vs Post capture

Save capture stores the article in your Cricket Library on this computer. The Save capture to setting (in the popup and below) stays put until you change it: Cricket Library only, or the Library plus a downloaded JSON file, or the Library plus a downloaded line-keyed text file.

Post capture is separate. You pick a destination each time, for the issue of the moment:

• X opens X with your draft. You still press Post yourself.
• NoteCase / NoteTab Pro copies or downloads line-keyed text. Every line starts with a key such as @#title#@, @#source#@, @#highlight#@, @#note#@, @#tag#@, or @#summary#@, so NoteCase Pro scripts can sort the capture.
• Google Docs copies formatted text and opens a new Google Doc. Paste it there.
• Cricket Collaboration copies the capture so you can paste it into your collaboration space. Direct posting is not wired up in this version.
• Slack copies a Slack-ready message (title, source link, each highlight with its attached note, tags and notes) and opens Slack. Paste it into the channel or DM. Direct posting to a chosen channel or DM comes with Enhanced Cricket Capture. You can save a Slack workspace URL in Settings below (the default is the Cricket Productivity workspace). If that field is blank, Slack opens at app.slack.com instead.
• Post to Grok Bot is labeled Enhanced users only. Direct posting to Grok Bot comes with Enhanced Cricket Capture. In this standard build, the capture is copied so you can paste it into Grok Bot yourself.

Opening the Library

Click the cricket icon in your toolbar, then Open Library. It opens in its own tab.

Searching and tags

Type in the search box to find words in titles, authors, highlights or notes. Click a tag to show only captures with that tag; click it again to turn it off.

Writing an X post from the Library

On any capture, click Compose X post, pick a highlight, add your take, and edit the draft. Open in X fills in the post for you. Nothing is ever posted until you press Post on X yourself.

Deleting

Click Delete on a capture and confirm. Deleting can't be undone, unless you have a backup.

Where your captures are kept

Captures are stored only on this computer, inside the browser's private storage for this extension. They are not your regular browser bookmarks, they are not synced to other devices, and nothing is sent online.

Important: back up regularly

If you remove the extension, or clear the browser's extension or site data, your captures are deleted. Click Export JSON now and then. The backup file goes to your Downloads folder.

Restoring, moving and sharing

Import JSON brings a backup back. Use it to move your captures to another computer, or to share them with someone like Paul: send them the JSON file and they import it into their own Cricket Capture.

Markdown, CSV and line-keyed text

Export Markdown makes an easy-to-read text file. Export CSV opens in Excel or another spreadsheet. Export line-keyed writes the same keyed text used by Post capture for NoteCase / NoteTab Pro. Use JSON for backups.

About

Cricket Capture v1.0.6 (Firefox / Floorp build), part of the Cricket Advanced Productivity Suite. Created by Gary Edwards. Co-developed by Olivia Tam Edwards.

What's new in 1.0.6

Post capture now includes Slack. It copies a Slack-ready message (title, source link, each highlight with its note, tags and notes) and opens Slack so you can paste it into a channel or DM. Direct posting to a chosen channel or DM is an Enhanced feature and is not included in this standard build.

Created by Gary Edwards. Co-developed by Olivia Tam Edwards. Part of the Cricket Advanced Productivity Suite.