Validation · not in the store yet
Local-first · no cloud required

Wait-a-sec Highlighter by Aonau

Web highlighting that stays on your machine. Not another all-in-one clipper. If Weava or a heavy Notion-style extension has made Chrome crawl, this page asks one thing: what still hurts — and is a tiny local tool even worth building?

Take the 60-second survey → Founding supporter — $1

Reading on the web, without the weight

Most of what we read online is gone a week later. A highlight is a small promise to come back.

Keep the sentence, skip the account, and let the page stay fast. Everything else is optional.

Refresh the page and your highlights are still here, stored on this device only.

Saved on this device · 2 highlights

Illustrative mock — not a screenshot of a shipped product.

What we’re aiming for

Select text → highlight. Minimal chrome, few popups.
Survives refresh; export Markdown snippets.
Local storage by default — no forced account, no cloud sync.
Tight permissions. No PDF suite. No “second browser” tax.

How it compares (honest)

Tool	Fit	Common friction
Weava	Feature-rich; often called out for lag	CPU / whole-browser slowdown
五彩 (Wucai)	Smooth in CN + note sync	Sync-first; not “pure local minimal”
Marklet / Seanote	Local / light narrative	Thin install base & reviews so far
Wait-a-sec (validating)	Local, quiet, not laggy — if built	Doesn’t exist yet — we ask first

Kill criteria (we will stop)

If most people already like 五彩 / Marklet / Seanote and say “not laggy,” or they mainly want multi-device sync, this line stops. This page exists to find out — not to force a product.

60-second survey

What do you use for web highlighting today? Does it still hurt? If a pure-local, quiet highlighter existed, what’s the one thing you’d want? Email if you’d try a local alpha (optional)

Submissions go to our scout inbox via FormSubmit (free). No account required on your side. First deploy needs one confirmation click in that inbox — see NOTES.md.