How to Highlight Passages with the Six-Color Palette

When studying a dense text or reading a profound book, highlighting every line in a single neon hue quickly leads to visual clutter. When revisiting your notes weeks later, distinguishing an author's core thesis from an illustrative example or a personal question becomes difficult.

GemReader offers a purposeful, carefully calibrated six-color annotation palette. By giving distinct roles to different colors, your highlights form a clear, structured visual record of your thoughts that you can review, filter, and study effortlessly.

To highlight passages, ensure you have:

• Platforms: GemReader installed on your phone or tablet.
• Supported Formats: Any reflowable ebook or PDF document open in the reader view.

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   In your open book, press and hold your finger on the first word of the passage you wish to mark.
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   Drag the selection handles across sentences until the complete thought is selected.
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   The Floating Pop-up Annotations Menu will appear directly above the selected text.
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   Tap one of the six color swatches to apply your highlight:

   • Yellow: Primary points, fundamental definitions, and core arguments.
   • Green: Supporting evidence, data points, and real-world examples.
   • Blue: Technical vocabulary, names, dates, and primary thesis concepts.
   • Pink / Coral: Lingering questions, follow-up inquiries, and research leads.
   • Purple: Memorable turns of phrase, literary style, and inspiring quotations.
   • Orange: Warnings, edge cases, caveats, and counterarguments.
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   The highlight is preserved instantly on the page and indexed in your Gems Library.

• Changing or Removing Highlights: To change the color of an existing highlight or delete it, simply tap directly on the highlighted passage on the page. The menu will appear with alternate color circles and a trash can icon to remove it.
• Adding Thoughtful Notes: When the menu appears, tap the speech bubble icon to attach personal marginalia and thoughts to that highlight.
• Reviewing by Color in Gems: Open the Gems tab from the bottom toolbar at any time to view all your highlights in one place, with one-tap filtering by specific colors.