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Export comments and tracked changes from the currently open Overleaf project to local files. Overleaf keeps review comments inside the editor. They are not in the source download and they are not in the Git sync, so the only way to work through feedback from co-authors and supervisors is to scroll the document and handle them one at a time. This exports them. Open your project in Overleaf, click the extension, and it writes: • Markdown, grouped by file and section, with every thread and its replies, and a short stable id on each comment • JSON and JSONL, the same data structured, for anything else you want to do with it • agents.md, a brief that tells an AI assistant how to read the other two, so you can say "draft a reply to C014" and it knows which passage that is • A response letter, pre-filled with every open comment and a blank space under each for your answer Tracked changes come through as well, as insertions and deletions with the surrounding text. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR COMPUTER There is no backend, no account, no analytics and no telemetry. The extension works inside the Overleaf tab you already have open and writes the files straight to your downloads folder. It never reads or stores your session cookie. It uses the session already present in the tab, which is why it needs no password and no permanent access to any site. WHAT IT ASKS FOR, AND WHY activeTab, so it can act on the Overleaf tab you clicked it on, and no other. scripting, so it can read the project through the same requests the editor itself makes. downloads, so it can save the exported files to your computer. It requests no permanent host permissions at all. THERE IS ALSO A COMMAND LINE VERSION The same project ships a Python tool that does more, including writing the comments into your compiled PDF as highlights, resolving \input and \include so a paper split across files gets the right section and figure numbers, and telling you what changed since your last export. It signs in by reading your browser's cookie store, which cannot be done on Windows with recent Chrome and needs Full Disk Access on macOS. This extension exists because that is a poor experience on Windows. It reads the tab instead. pip install "overleaf-comments-export[gui,pdf]" OPEN SOURCE MIT licensed. The whole thing is readable at https://github.com/Mangluu/overleaf-comments-export The interface is available in English and Chinese.