Question on UpNote Web Clipping
Started by Ken
on 11/22/2023
Ken
11/22/2023 5:36 pm
I was giving UpNote another look and was playing around with the Android app as it was still installed on my phone. What I am trying to understand is if the app has a web clipper (available in iOS, Android and Windows) that will clip more than just the URL hyperlink. Many clippers also provide an image of the page, and the page's title in addition to the URL link automatically, and that was what I was hoping it offered. Using the Share feature in Android, all I got was text and the hyperlink. Did I miss something, is this a feature not available on mobile devices, and what is that type of clip called when it has the page image and other data along with the URL? I know that Walling's clipper generally provides all of that data, and I find is helpful. Hoping that UpNote might have it as well.
Thanks,
--Ken
Thanks,
--Ken
Cyganet
11/22/2023 8:21 pm
You saw it correctly. UpNote does not have an Android web clipper.
Ken
11/23/2023 6:56 am
Cyganet wrote:
Thanks. Do you know if their Windows clipper provides more than just the link and text?
--Ken
You saw it correctly. UpNote does not have an Android web clipper.
Thanks. Do you know if their Windows clipper provides more than just the link and text?
--Ken
Cyganet
11/23/2023 11:36 am
Yes it does have a browser plugin for web clipping on Windows.
What I do with UpNote is clip the page link on my phone, then later open the page link in a browser on windows, copy the content I want, then paste it in. This allows me to ignore all the other elements on a page that I don't want. It generates reasonably clean markdown.
The copy-paste method doesn't work in Android because its clipboard is more limited than the Windows one.
What I do with UpNote is clip the page link on my phone, then later open the page link in a browser on windows, copy the content I want, then paste it in. This allows me to ignore all the other elements on a page that I don't want. It generates reasonably clean markdown.
The copy-paste method doesn't work in Android because its clipboard is more limited than the Windows one.
Ken
11/26/2023 9:29 pm
Cyganet wrote:
I think I am going to take a pass again. It turns out I had it on my PC, but it was a bit ill-behaved when and after I opened it up, so I am looking at other options. I especially did not like that it was consuming CPU and memory several hours after I closed the program. There were some other issues, but all in all, it was not worth the effort.
--Ken
Yes it does have a browser plugin for web clipping on Windows.
What I do with UpNote is clip the page link on my phone, then later open
the page link in a browser on windows, copy the content I want, then
paste it in. This allows me to ignore all the other elements on a page
that I don't want. It generates reasonably clean markdown.
The copy-paste method doesn't work in Android because its clipboard is
more limited than the Windows one.
I think I am going to take a pass again. It turns out I had it on my PC, but it was a bit ill-behaved when and after I opened it up, so I am looking at other options. I especially did not like that it was consuming CPU and memory several hours after I closed the program. There were some other issues, but all in all, it was not worth the effort.
--Ken