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Redline is a local-first Firefox research companion. Save web pages with notes, tags, reading status, importance, and dossier links. Capture selected passages as highlights, claims, sources, questions, follow-ups, and other annotations, then search and organize the resulting local library.

The sidebar supports capture while reading, while the library brings together saved pages, annotations, dossiers, tags, and links. The Evidence Compiler turns dossier questions into reviewable claims: connect exact saved passages as supporting, challenging, or contextual evidence, record a conclusion and rationale, and use deterministic checks to find unsupported claims, contradictions, missing evidence, or passages that need review. These checks identify evidence gaps; they do not score truth or source credibility.

Source Witness lets you explicitly preserve normalized readable text for a saved source in the local vault. In the sidebar, use Preview capture to review the content and estimated size, then Preserve capture to retain it. Repeat those controls on a later source version, then choose Open capture history to inspect focused changes, verify the stored text against its SHA-256 digest, read it offline, and see when a changed block affects an annotation or claim. The digest verifies only the stored normalized text; it does not prove source truth, authorship, capture time, completeness, immutability, or legal admissibility.

To start with an existing bookmark collection, import Firefox Bookmark Backup JSON created with the Bookmarks manager's Import and Backup → Backup command, or a standard Chrome-family/Netscape bookmarks HTML export. Supported URLs become Pages, full folder paths become dossier names, and Redline previews new records, duplicates, and unsupported URLs before applying the import.

Redline can restore its full-fidelity All data JSON backups and generate local JSON, CSV, XML, Markdown, BibTeX, RIS, CSL JSON, EndNote XML, bibliography, and academic Markdown exports. Claims and evidence relationships are included in Redline backups and supported evidence-aware exports. Redline backup imports are parsed, validated, checked for duplicate URLs, and resolved locally.

• Save the current page or a linked source as a local record.
• Annotate selected page text from the floating selection menu or context menu.
• Classify findings and attach notes, tags, and dossiers.
• Compile dossier claims from exact supporting, challenging, and contextual passages.
• Preserve readable source versions locally and review focused changes that affect saved evidence.
• Review deterministic evidence-gap checks without truth or credibility scoring.
• Restore compatible highlights using saved text and nearby context.
• Search pages, notes, annotations, dossiers, and links locally.
• Migrate browser bookmarks into Pages and dossiers with a local preview.
• Export and back up research in multiple portable formats.

Keep a traceable research trail without relying on a Redline account or cloud sync service. Your research vault remains in Firefox’s browser-managed local storage unless you choose to export it.