Cricket Capture Is Live! A New Beginning for the Cricket Productivity Suite

One cricket at sunset is easy to miss. Ten thousand crickets at sunset have the world's attention.

Cricket Capture is live on the Chrome Web Store! This is a special moment for the Cricket Productivity Suite: our first tool is available for everyone to try.

Install Cricket Capture from the Chrome Web Store

Read carefully. Keep what matters. Share it thoughtfully.

Cricket Capture brings highlighting, smart bookmarks and a personal research Library together in a browser extension for Chrome and Brave.

  • Highlight while you read. Select a passage, use the floating Highlight button, the right-click menu or Alt+H, and add a note. Saved highlights reappear when you return to the same page. Some pages may not support highlighting.
  • Save smart bookmarks. Capture the article's title, author, date and link when available, edit the details, and add your own notes and tags.
  • Find your research again. Search your local Library, filter by tag, and export JSON backups, Markdown or CSV. Import JSON to restore a backup or move captures between computers.
  • Prepare an X post or email. Choose a highlight and add your take. Open in X fills in a draft; you still decide whether to press Post. Copy as email prepares material to paste into an email.

Your Library belongs to you

Your captures and highlights are kept in your browser's local extension storage, not a Cricket cloud account. There are no Cricket servers, analytics or tracking. Opening a draft on X or sharing an exported file is your choice. Captures do not automatically sync between devices.

Back up regularly: Export JSON from the Library. Removing the extension or clearing its data can erase your captures.

Live today, and the next step

Version 1.0.2 is the published store release. Version 1.0.3, a readability update with larger type, larger controls and a wider popup, has been submitted for review and will publish automatically after approval.

The bigger idea

The Cricket Productivity Suite is about connecting what you learned, what you are looking at now, and what you need when it is time to decide. Capture is the first step. Connections to note apps, citation export and additional ways to share are future plans, not features we are announcing as available today.

Thank you

Created by Gary Edwards. Co-developed by Olivia Tam Edwards and Marbux, as credited in our public store listing. Cricket, my Grok Bot assistant, helped with the code, artwork and publication work. Thank you to everyone who tested, questioned and encouraged this little cricket along the way.

Try it, keep a backup, and tell us what would make it more useful. This is only the beginning.

~ge~

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