1. Catch it
Open Research Draft
Choose Root from the Chrome toolbar to open a persistent writing surface beside the page you are already using.
Research Draft for Chrome
Write beside the web.
Research Draft stays open beside the pages you browse and saves automatically. Keep notes, quotes, findings, questions, and sources together, then save the draft as a note or send it to Inbox when it is ready.
The basic loop
Write now. Choose the destination later.
Browser notes often arrive before you know whether they are a task, a useful quote, a research lead, a prompt, or the beginning of a document. Root calls that unfinished material working text. It is valuable, but it does not need a perfect folder or title yet.
2. Keep the source
Attach the page or selection
Use Attach page, or right-click selected text, when the source explains why the note matters.
3. Choose a destination
Save it or send it to Inbox
Save as New Note and keep the draft open, or append it to Inbox and start again with a clear writing surface.
4. Move it forward
Open the full workspace
Review notes, turn lines into open tasks, save repeatable text as Snippets, or prepare a deliberate Context Handoff.
More than a browser notepad
Keep the note close to the work it can become.
A blank notepad is fast, but captured text often becomes useful only after the first moment. Root keeps notes, links, task lines, and reusable fragments in one lightweight workspace so they can keep moving.
Notes with visible action
Checklist lines stay beside the explanation, source, or draft that made the task necessary. Open Tasks rolls unfinished lines into one view.
Prompts and snippets you reuse
Save the instructions, response shapes, and text fragments you actually repeat instead of rebuilding them from chat history.
Context you choose to share
Context Handoff lets you select, preview, and frame the exact working text that should leave Root.
Private by default
Your workspace starts locally.
Root keeps the Chrome workspace local by default. Copy, export, and Context Handoff are deliberate actions. If you choose Root Connect, Root uses a workspace file in your own Google Drive rather than a Root-hosted notes account.
- No Root account required for the local workspace
- Clear permission and sharing boundaries
- Manual export and recovery paths
Common uses
One writing surface for the text between tools.
ResearchSave a page, quote, reaction, and follow-up before the final document exists.
TasksKeep the action line beside the note that explains why it matters.
WritingCatch draft lines, reply fragments, and reusable structures while they are still rough.
AI contextPrepare a smaller, cleaner packet instead of pasting an entire workspace into a chat.
Try the first loop
Write one useful thing beside the page.
Install Root, open Research Draft, attach a source if it helps, then save the draft as a note or send it to Inbox.