diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 17395fe..7572ffb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -62,6 +62,18 @@ What follows is a not-very-sorted train of though on where the plugin is at and
 could see myself taking it one day, provided I find the time.
 Pull requests tackling one of these areas of course very welcome.
 
+## Issues
+
+A note on the extraction. Highlights in pdfs are somewhat difficult to parse
+(as are most things in them). Sometimes they contain the selected text that is written on the
+page, sometimes they contain the annotators thoughts as a note, sometimes they contain nothing.
+This plugin makes an effort to find the right combination and extract the written words,
+as well as any additional notes made - but things *will* slip through or extract weirdly every now
+and again.
+
+The easiest extraction is provided if your program writes the selection itself into the highlight
+content, because then we can just use that. It is harder to parse if it does not.
+
 ## Roadmap:
 
 - [x] extracts highlights and annotations from a doc file (e.g. using PyMuPDF)
@@ -79,6 +91,7 @@ Pull requests tackling one of these areas of course very welcome.
     - [ ] colors are given in very exact 0.6509979 RGB values, meaning we could once again estimate if a color is 'close enough' in distance to tag it accordingly
 - [ ] make invoking the command run a query if corresponding option provided (or whatever) in pubs syntax and use resulting papers
     - [ ] confirm for many papers?
+- [ ] warning when the amount of annotations in file is different than the amount extracted?
 
 ## Things that would also be nice in pubs in general and don't really belong in this repository
 
diff --git a/extract/extract.py b/extract/extract.py
index 93eca9b..ce2cfe9 100644
--- a/extract/extract.py
+++ b/extract/extract.py
@@ -129,13 +129,20 @@ class ExtractPlugin(PapersPlugin):
         with fitz.Document(filename) as doc:
             for page in doc:
                 for annot in page.annots():
-                    content = annot.get_text() or annot.info["content"].replace(
-                        "\n", ""
-                    )
+                    content = self._retrieve_annotation_content(page, annot)
                     if content:
                         annotations.append(f"[{(page.number or 0) + 1}] {content}")
         return annotations
 
+    def _retrieve_annotation_content(self, page, annotation):
+        content = annotation.info["content"].replace("\n", " ")
+        written = page.get_textbox(annotation.rect).replace("\n", " ")
+        if written in content:
+            return content
+        elif content:
+            return f"{written}\nNote: {content}"
+        return written
+
     def _to_stdout(self, annotated_papers):
         """Write annotations to stdout.