macOS
Use The Magic Highlighter to find online search terms fast
IT WILL TAKE 5 minutes
YOU WILL LEARN How to use The Magic Highlighter to emphasise words on a web page
YOU’LL NEED The Magic Highlighter (£1.99), macOS 10.14 or later
It’s so good that you could end up ditching the familiar Cmd+F shortcut
When you use a search engine, it’s easy enough to find web pages that purport to contain your search terms. But actually locating those terms within the page you’ve opened? That can be trickier, and often has you desperately reaching for the Cmd+F keyboard shortcut after a bunch of fruitless scrolling. It’s extra hassle when things really should be easier.
Cue The Magic Highlighter. This Safari extension automatically highlights your search terms on any page found through search engines like Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo, making it incredibly easy to discover the content you’re after. It’s so good that you could end up ditching the familiar Cmd+F shortcut before too long.
Customisation and extras
As well as being quick and easy to use, The Magic Highlighter is also very customisable. You can add and remove highlighted words on the fly, change the colour of the on-page emphasis, and toggle highlighted words on and off individually. The extension works across macOS, iOS and iPadOS, making its £1.99 price tag excellent value.
A recent update brought a string of significant new features and improvements to the extension. Among the changes were extra keyboard shortcuts, filtering of noise words like ‘what’ and ‘is’ so they don’t clog your page, and much more.
HOW TO Use The Magic Highlighter
Open Safari then, in its menu bar, click Safari > Settings > Extensions and click The Magic Highlighter in the sidebar. Tick the checkbox on the left of the extension’s name, then click ‘Always Allow on Every Website’.
Now go to a search e
