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How to Add a Saved Note to Your Notepad Document

Learn how to use My Notes in the Helperbird Notepad to search the notes and highlights you saved while reading, and drop one into what you are writing.

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What This Does

While you read, Helperbird lets you save notes and highlight passages on any page. My Notes brings those into the Notepad, so you can pull a quote or a thought straight into what you are writing instead of hunting for it again.


Who is This For?

This is helpful for:

  • Students writing something up from pages they read earlier
  • Anyone gathering quotes for an essay or a report
  • People who research first and write afterwards
  • Anyone who has highlighted something and cannot remember where

Step 1: Open My Notes

Click My Notes in the toolbar. It is to the right of Text stats.

Your saved notes and highlights appear as colored cards. Each card shows a tag telling you what it is, such as Note, Highlight or Extracted, along with the website it came from.

The My Notes view in Helperbird, showing saved notes and highlights with filters for All and Highlights


Step 2: Find the Note

If you have a lot of notes, type into the Search notes box at the top. The cards narrow down as you type, matching the words in your notes.

Searching saved notes by their words in the My Notes window of the Helperbird Notepad


Step 3: Click It to Add It

Click the card. The note is added into your document at the end of what you have written, and the window closes.

A saved note inserted into the page of the Helperbird Notepad after being chosen from My Notes

You can then edit it like any other text, and save the document when you are done.

Notes stay in your list after you insert them, so the same note can be used in more than one document.


Need Additional Help?

If you have any questions or run into any issues, please contact the Helperbird support team. You can reach us at Helperbird support. We are happy to help you get the most out of Helperbird.

Printed from the Helperbird Help Center · Updated August 28th, 2026

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