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View, search and edit your JW Library notes — Study Explorer

Open any .jwlibrary backup in your browser to browse, search, edit, retag, recolour and bulk-clean your JW Library notes, highlights and bookmarks. Nothing uploaded.

JW Library is built for taking notes, not for managing thousands of them. Study Explorer opens any .jwlibrary backup right in your browser and turns it into a searchable, editable library manager — notes, highlights and bookmarks in one place, with nothing uploaded anywhere.

Step by step

  1. Load a backup

    Create a backup in JW Library (Personal Study → Backup and Restore → Create a backup), then open jwsync.org and load the file into Study Explorer.

  2. Browse and search everything

    Three tabs — Notes, Highlights, Bookmarks — with full-text search plus colour, tag and publication filters. A Study Answers tab shows your fill-in answers from publications too.

  3. Edit in place

    Open any note to edit its title and content with rich-text formatting (bold, italic, underline, lists), change its highlight colour, and add or remove tags. Bookmarks and highlight colours are editable the same way.

  4. Clean up in bulk

    Select many notes at once to retag, recolour or delete together — with full undo/redo, so a slip is never fatal. You can also extract a date range of notes into a fresh backup, or copy notes out as Markdown.

  5. Export your edited library

    Download the edited .jwlibrary and restore it in JW Library. Your changes are now on the device.

Do it now — free, in your browserJW Sync merges, edits and analyses .jwlibrary backups entirely on your device. No account, no uploads, nothing installed.Open JW Sync →

Why edit in a browser instead of the app?

Scale. Renaming a tag across 300 notes, recolouring every yellow highlight in one publication, or deleting years of stale bookmarks is minutes of work here and hours of tapping in the app. The exported file is a standard backup that JW Library restores like any other.

Frequently asked questions

Does editing touch my original backup?
No — edits are made to an in-browser copy and saved into a new exported file. The original stays as it was.
Is there a limit to library size?
Very large libraries are paginated so browsing stays fast; search and filters work across everything.

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