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title: "How to highlight text and take notes"
description: "Highlight passages in a lesson, add your own notes and tags, then find them again in a course's Notes tab or across all your Blend-ed courses."
source: "https://docs.blend-ed.com/product/learning-experience/how-to-highlight-text-and-take-notes/"
---

# How to highlight text and take notes

**Who can do this:** Learners enrolled in the course

Highlight any passage in a lesson and add your own note to it. Your notes are saved with the passage, so you can find them later and jump straight back to the lesson.

**Adding a highlight and note**

**Step 1:** In the lesson, click the **pencil** icon at the top right.

![How to highlight text and take notes screenshot 19](/_astro/image13.BT9uxKU8_Vvhdw.webp)

**Step 2:** Select the text you want to highlight.

![How to highlight text and take notes screenshot 20](/_astro/image14.BWyDEyyF_11mGeK.webp)

The text turns yellow and a note box opens beside it.

![How to highlight text and take notes screenshot 21](/_astro/image15.Nsm1bZAv_1BkEog.webp)

**Step 3:** Type your note.

**Step 4:** Optionally, add tags in **Add some tags here…** to group related notes.

**Step 5:** Click **Save**.

![Highlighted text in a lesson with the note box open, showing a note, the tags field, Save and Cancel](/_astro/image15.Nsm1bZAv_1BkEog.webp)

**Tip:** Write the note in your own words rather than copying the passage. The highlight already keeps the original text, and putting it in your own words helps it stick.

## Finding notes for one course
**Step 1:** Open the course.

**Step 2:** Click the **Notes** tab.

![How to highlight text and take notes screenshot 23](/_astro/image17._oVx8Q_j_1BiV7E.webp)

Each note shows the highlighted passage, your comment, the unit it was **Noted in** and when it was **Last Edited**. Click the unit name to go back to that lesson.

Use **Search notes for…** to find a note by keyword.

![Course Notes tab showing a highlighted passage, You commented, Noted in and Last Edited](/_astro/image18.uUTIZqF2_ZfKErt.webp)

## Finding notes across all your courses
**Step 1:** Go to **Learning** in the left navigation.

**Step 2:** Click the **Notes** tab.

Every note from every course is listed here. Use **Sort by** to show the **Latest** or **Oldest** first.

**Step 3:** Click a note to see its details on the right: the course and unit, the passage **From Lesson**, **Your Note**, and when it was created and last edited.

**Step 4:** Click **Go to Lesson** to open the lesson where you made the note.

![Learning > Notes tab with a note selected and its details on the right](/_astro/image19.BI20U3dF_ZgkWHU.webp)

**Note:** Notes are private. Other learners and your instructors can’t see them.

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