I want a way to highlight a bit of text, no matter where it may be, and for that highlight to be saved somewhere, in an at least somewhat organized fashion, ideally with a link back to where I found the information saved.

Over the years, a few services have popped up to do this at a high level.

Unfortunately, these services tend to pop out of existence as quickly as they pop in. More importantly, they’re often limited by the OSes on which they run. So the experience you’re left with is one that 99% of users will never bother with

right next to the options to cut, copy, and paste — which is ‘highlight’. And invoking this highlights the text on the screen and saves that text somewhere else — maybe even the Notes app — to be revisited later. Again, ideally with a link back to where you found said text. Either a website or even another app.

On your phone, tablet, or computer, you should be able to highlight any text, anywhere. And in fact you can, with your mouse cursor (or finger). But there’s no good way to make such highlights permanent, beyond the above steps.

Where ever these highlights are saved, be it a ‘Highlights’ app or again, the Notes app, is where you go to find your saved highlights in reverse chronological order. And if you so desired, you could do some work to further categorize them here.