Obsidian Web Clipper
Official browser extension that saves web pages and highlights to an Obsidian vault as files.
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About Obsidian Web Clipper
Obsidian Web Clipper is a browser extension from the makers of Obsidian. It captures web pages, their metadata and your highlights into your vault as durable files that you can read offline.
Templates control how each kind of page is saved. There are templates for articles with citations and footnotes, recipes with ingredients and steps, references for books, movies and podcasts, and academic papers with code and math. You can also write custom templates for particular sites. It is available for Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari.
Strengths
- Saves pages as files you control rather than in a cloud service
- Templates for articles, recipes, references and papers
- Available for Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari
Limitations
- Most useful if you already keep notes in Obsidian
- Custom templates take some setup
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to install from the browser extension stores.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Obsidian
- Platforms
- iOS, Browser extension
- How it runs
- Browser extension
- Best suited for
- Obsidian users who collect articles and research from the web
- Categories
- Browser tools, Note-taking
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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Omnivore
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Karakeep
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