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Posted by James Salla
Jun 27, 2021 at 03:35 AM
Which outliners or PIM’s or personal wiki programs have the best web-clipper features?
Posted by Luhmann
Jun 27, 2021 at 06:33 AM
Great topic, but I think what counts as “best” depends on your needs. I use a number of different options depending on what I’m doing.
PDF replica of page: FireShot (a Chrome extension). I save to DevonThink (which has its own clipper that is useful if you want a stripped down version of the page without distractions.)
Highlights from page: either save to Instapaper or use hypothes.is directly on the page. (These then both get pulled to Obsidian via Readwise.io)
Markdown text of page: MarkDownload (a Chrome extension). Note: Instapaper can also copy the plain text version of an article to the clipboard.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jun 27, 2021 at 02:15 PM
If I don’t want a replica (in which case I would also use Fireshot) but just the contents correctly formatted, I use Evernote. It has web clipper extensions for most browsers.
Interestingly, at least in Windows, the Evernote web clipper shortcut on the browser bar provides more options than right-clicking in the content, including clip Article and Simplified Article which both work well in most websites.
Even more interestingly (euphemistically speaking) the clip Selection which is available via both right-clicking and the shortcut, works differently depending on how it is summoned. This is usually a nuisance, but can actually be good in certain websites, where one works better than the other.
Posted by jimson
Jun 27, 2021 at 03:27 PM
MyInfo also published a new web extension recently:
https://www.myinfoapp.com/features/webclipper
Looks comparable to Evernote’s one.
Posted by Cyganet
Jun 28, 2021 at 11:13 AM
Luhmann wrote:
Great topic, but I think what counts as “best” depends on your needs. I
>use a number of different options depending on what I’m doing.
Agreed. I often want the content, with clickable links, and OCRed text that I can highlight (for Zotero). No so much the actual layout of the page.
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>PDF replica of page: FireShot (a Chrome extension). I save to DevonThink
>(which has its own clipper that is useful if you want a stripped down
>version of the page without distractions.)
I have tried several options. FireShot is good, it saves the page as an image so the file size can get big. Other extensions (in Firefox, probably also for Chrome) are PDFMyURL and PrientFriendly. I tend to try different ones to see which generates the best result.
>Markdown text of page: MarkDownload (a Chrome extension). Note:
>Instapaper can also copy the plain text version of an article to the
>clipboard.
I have found that copying the text that I want to copy and pasting it into UpNote gives a clean markdown page. As a bonus, UpNote has a good export to PDF, so you get a clean PDF page if you want one. There’s a web clipper for UpNote that has just been released, but it’s not fully functional yet.
HTML: InfoQube has an HTML web clipper. It can get stuck on very heavy pages. Copying text and pasting it into the doc pane is also a good way to get an HTML copy of the page.