I use Hidden Bar (https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden) for this. It works well enough despite not being updated in a while, though there is a bit of jank. Just tried out Ice and it seems to be a nice, lower jank replacement! - Source: Hacker News / 15 days ago

I switched to HiddenBar a few years ago when a Bartender licence ran out. It's open source, it's free, and it hasn't been taken over by a new owner who won't identify themselves. https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden. - Source: Hacker News / 17 days ago

The open-source Hidden Bar is my current solution to this problem, but I think I prefer this native fix. https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden

  brew install --cask hiddenbar

. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

There's Hidden Bar but I think it's a lot like Bartender. It has an arrow too if that's what you want. Source: about 1 year ago

Hidden is a great free and open-source alternative. Source: about 1 year ago

Genius was working on something similar for a while, but I don't think it ever took off: https://genius.com/web-annotator. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Does Genius Web Annotator still work? I used it years ago and found it pretty handy: https://genius.com/web-annotator. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Maybe try some of these https://genius.com/web-annotator https://www.getpoint.co/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

The lyrics site Genius also attempted this[1][2] 1. https://genius.com/web-annotator. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

I think people have done stuff like this? Maybe not for full (and long) novels, but at least for non-fiction articles. Here's a place which has a tool for that: https://genius.com/web-annotator. Source: about 3 years ago