Every source, quote, and briefing — on hand at deadline

A story’s research outlives the story. The council report you skimmed in March becomes central in June; the expert who gave you one line of background becomes the lead source of a follow-up. Journalists work under two pressures that pull opposite directions — deadlines demand speed, accuracy demands sourcing — and the standard toolkit of open tabs, emailed-to-self links, and a notes app full of pasted URLs serves neither. When an editor asks “where’s that from?”, the answer can’t be “somewhere in my history.”

Marqly gives reporting a memory. It’s an AI bookmark manager that captures sources one click at a time, preserves exact wording through highlights, summarizes background reading for triage, and retrieves any of it later from a description as vague as deadline-brain gets.

Quote capture that survives fact-checking

The highlighter is the journalist’s core tool here. Select a passage on any web page — a line from a report, a claim in a rival outlet’s piece, a figure in a press release — and it’s captured verbatim, in one of six colors, permanently linked to its source. Attach a note recording what your future self will need: “minister’s phrasing changed from the Feb statement,” “check against the PDF version,” “OK to quote, on record.” The full technique is in how to highlight text on any website.

Web sources also have a habit of changing after you’ve quoted them — statements get walked back, press releases get reworded, pages disappear. Save-as-PDF is the insurance policy: it captures any page as a clean PDF matching the on-screen layout, lazy-loaded images and all, processed locally in your browser. When the quoted line vanishes from the live page, your record of what it said on the day still exists.

Because highlights persist on the original page and sync to your library, verification runs in both directions: from the draft, you jump to the exact marked passage in context; from the source page, your earlier markings show you what you flagged and why. Six colors are enough to encode a working system — confirmed facts, unverified claims, quotable lines, background only.

Background reading at wire speed

Getting up to speed on an unfamiliar beat means burning through briefings, explainers, past coverage, and primary documents fast. Marqly’s AI summaries turn that stack into something you can triage: save everything relevant — the tab saver captures a whole window of research in one action — then skim summaries to decide which three pieces deserve full attention before the 2 p.m. interview. Auto-tagging organizes it all as it lands, so the “hospital funding” material separates itself from the “planning committee” material without you touching a folder.

Video sources get equivalent treatment. Press conferences, hearings, and interviews on YouTube come with Marqly’s AI card: a streaming summary with key sections, and a playback-synced transcript with one-click copy — meaning a quote from minute 47 of a committee session becomes text with a timestamp you can cite. Saving the video attaches its transcript to the bookmark, and the workflow is laid out in summarize YouTube videos with AI.

Finding the March source in June

Follow-ups are where retrieval earns its keep. Marqly’s semantic search works by meaning, across titles, page content, your highlights, and video transcripts — so “the analyst who predicted the merger would face review” finds the piece even when you can’t name the analyst, the outlet, or the month. It’s the difference described in what is semantic search, and the practical query technique lives in how to search bookmarks with AI.

Boards keep concurrent stories from bleeding together: one board per investigation or beat, holding its links and highlights. And on Pro, chat with your saves answers questions from your own accumulated sourcing — “what did my saved coverage say about the 2024 audit?” — grounded in material you’ve already vetted, not the open web.

Getting started

1. Install the extension — Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari are supported, and signup at app.marqly.com is free with no card.
2. Import your existing link archive. Browser bookmark HTML exports, Pocket exports, and Raindrop.io collections import directly — years of beat knowledge, recovered in one pass.
3. Let auto-tagging organize the archive. AI tags everything imported and everything saved from now on, so the library structures itself while you report.

The honest limits: Marqly has no offline mode, so it won’t serve as a field kit where connectivity dies, and there’s no Android app — the web app runs in Android browsers, but iOS is the only native mobile client. It’s also a personal library, not a newsroom system: shared boards are public, view-only pages, not collaborative workspaces. For the individual reporter’s problem — keeping months of sourcing accurate, organized, and findable at deadline — that’s precisely the shape of the tool.