The reading that makes a good lawyer mostly happens outside the billable databases: agency guidance, new regulations, firm client alerts, law-blog commentary, the occasional law review piece someone emails around. It piles up in tabs and email forwards, and when a client question makes one of those sources suddenly relevant, finding it again costs half an hour. Marqly organizes that layer of legal reading — one-click saves, automatic AI tagging, highlights on the operative language, and retrieval by describing what the source said.
Save the reading pile, keep a record of it
A save takes one click from the toolbar; a research sprint’s worth of open tabs — the proposed rule, the comment letters, four pieces of commentary — gets captured at once with the tab saver. AI tagging files each save automatically, which matters for a profession with no spare hours for bookmark housekeeping. If you want your own layer on top, tags like a client industry or practice area take a second to add at save time; how to organize bookmarks covers where manual structure still pays.
Web sources are also unstable in a way lawyers notice: agency pages get reorganized, guidance gets superseded, links rot. Marqly’s save-as-PDF captures a page as a clean PDF matching the on-screen layout, processed locally in your browser. Saving both the live link and a dated PDF snapshot gives you a record of what the page said when you relied on it.
Highlight the operative language
Legal reading is the art of finding the four sentences in a forty-paragraph document that actually decide the question. Marqly’s highlighter marks those sentences where they live: select text on any website, choose one of six colors, and add a note. A workable convention emerges fast — say, one color for operative or binding language, one for the author’s argument, one for points to verify against the primary source, one for language worth borrowing in a client alert.
Highlights persist on the page, so reopening a regulation months later shows your markup on the exact provisions you flagged. They also sync to your library, meaning the key passages from everything you’ve read sit in one reviewable place — and they feed search, so the language you flagged is the language that gets found.
Retrieve by meaning, because titles won’t help you
Nobody remembers that a useful piece was titled “Client Alert: Recent Developments in Disclosure Obligations.” You remember the argument it made. Marqly’s semantic search matches by meaning across titles, content, and highlights, so describing the argument — “the alert saying the new reporting threshold catches mid-size funds” — is a working query. That single difference is most of the value of an organizer over a bookmarks folder.
Reading also happens away from the office machine. The web app and iOS app carry the same library, so commentary saved from a phone on the train lands in the identical searchable pool as everything captured at your desk — highlights included — and the extension’s side panel lets you consult prior saves without leaving the document you’re reading.
AI summaries earn their place during triage. When a regulatory development produces a flood of overlapping firm commentary, the auto-generated summary on each save lets you see which pieces add analysis and which restate the rule, before you spend reading time. On Pro, you can go further and ask questions answered from your saved content — “what did the commentary I saved disagree about on the effective date?” — with answers drawn from your own reading, not the open web. Treat it the way you’d treat a junior’s first summary: a fast orientation you then verify against the sources themselves.
Getting started
Install the extension — Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari are supported. Export your existing browser bookmarks as an HTML file and import them, along with any Pocket or Raindrop.io collections from past organizing attempts. Then let the AI tag the whole backlog: years of accumulated “Legal — misc” folders become a tagged, searchable base without an afternoon of filing. Going forward, the discipline is minimal — one click when something crosses your desk, a highlight when a passage matters.
The free tier needs no card to start; sign up at app.marqly.com.
Who this isn’t for
Candor is cheaper than a bad fit: Marqly is not a case-management system, a citation tool, or a substitute for your legal research database. It won’t cite-check a brief, track matters or court deadlines, or search primary case law — and it has no team features, so a practice group can’t run it as a shared knowledge system (board sharing is public and view-only, which is rarely appropriate for client work). What it does is narrower and real: the regulations, guidance, and commentary you read on the open web stop vanishing into tabs, and start coming back the moment you need them.
Frequently asked questions
Is Marqly a citation or case-management tool?
No. Marqly doesn't check citations, format references, track matters or deadlines, or replace a legal research database. It organizes the open-web layer of legal reading — regulations, agency guidance, firm commentary, law blogs, and news — with AI tagging, highlights, and semantic search. Think of it as the reading-pile organizer that sits beside your practice tools, not among them.
Can I keep a copy of a regulation page as it appeared?
Yes. Marqly's save-as-PDF captures any web page as a clean PDF that matches the on-screen layout, including lazy-loaded images, and the capture is processed locally in your browser. Agency pages and guidance documents get revised without notice, so having a dated snapshot of exactly what you read — alongside the live bookmark — is genuinely useful.
How do I find a source when I only remember what it said?
That's the normal case, and it's what semantic search is for. It matches meaning rather than exact keywords across titles, page content, and your highlights, so a query like "the commentary arguing the disclosure rule reaches subsidiaries" surfaces the right save even when the title shares none of those words. The more you highlight the passages that matter, the sharper retrieval gets.