20 Web Clipper

Ever been browsing the web and thought "this is a keeper!" 📎 The Web Clipper is what neatly tucks that page away as a Markdown note in your vault. If Export is about sending your writing out into the world, the Web Clipper is the magic that brings great material back in!

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What can you clip? ✂️

• A whole page: pulls out just the body of the webpage you're viewing and tidies it up into Markdown (automatically stripping out clutter like ads and menus!).
• Just a selection: drag-select your favorite paragraph and clip only that part.
• A link: clip right on top of a link, and it fetches and saves the full body content of the page that link points to.
• Region screenshot 📸 (desktop extension): for charts, images, or layouts that are hard to capture in text, drag to mark a region and capture it as an image! The captured image is saved to the vault's assets/ folder and dropped into the note along with a source link.

Tables become Markdown tables and code becomes code blocks — everything is converted as nicely as possible. Details like the title, URL, and author are automatically added to the top of the note (frontmatter) too. The names it uses (source · author · collected) are exactly the same ones AI transcription and book lookups use, so material gathered from anywhere can be collected together one way. → Frontmatter Properties

It asks you when you clip 🤔

Once a clip lands in ObsiKO, it briefly asks where to save it.

• New note: saved as a new .md file in the Clippings folder (default).
• Insert into body (at cursor): if you have a note open for editing, the clip drops in right where your cursor is. Perfect for slotting material into a specific spot in your writing! (To append it at the end, just place your cursor there.)
• Grab URL only: saves just the link address, with no body content. (This button doesn't show up when there's no address — like when you clipped selected text.)

How do I use it? (by device) 💻📱

Desktop browsers — Chrome · Edge · Firefox

Once you install the ObsiKO browser extension (a one-time setup), you can use it like this:

• Click the ObsiKO icon in the toolbar → clips the current page in its entirety!
• Choose from the right-click menu:
• Clip page to ObsiKO — the whole page
• Clip selection to ObsiKO — when you've selected text
• Clip link to ObsiKO — on top of a link (fetches that link's body content too)
• Clip region capture to ObsiKO — the screen dims slightly, so drag to select the region to capture (Esc to cancel). The moment you release, the image flies over to ObsiKO! 📸
• The first time you use link clipping, it asks once for "access to all sites" permission (you need to allow this to fetch the body content — if you decline, only the URL gets saved).

💡 Can't install extensions (a work PC, say)? There's a bookmarklet too — enter the host address in Settings ▸ Web Clipper and drag the bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar, and in any browser, one click on that bookmark clips the page (requires an HTTPS deployment; region capture is extension-only).

macOS Safari

Turn on the ObsiKO extension in Safari, and you can clip pages, selections, and links the same way, via the right-click menu. (Due to Apple's policies, Safari extensions need a one-time build-and-enable setup.)

macOS Share menu (from any app!)

You can also add ObsiKO to the Mac's Share menu. That way, not just Safari but any app — Notes, News, and more — lets you clip a URL or selected text straight through Share ▸ ObsiKO.

iPhone / iPad

In Safari (or any other app), just tap Share ▸ ObsiKO and you're done! Along with page addresses, if you select text and share it, that selected portion gets saved as a note. 📲

Android

In Chrome (or any other app), tap Share ▸ ObsiKO Clipping to fetch the page body and save it as a note. And there's more — in other apps, the menu (⋮ more options) that pops up when you long-press to select text also includes 'ObsiKO Clipping,' so you can send a selected sentence straight from there! 🤖

Good to have ready ✅

• To clip on desktop, the ObsiKO desktop app needs to be running with a vault (folder) open. The clip wakes up the desktop app via obsiko:// to save it.
• On iPhone, iPad, and Android, the ObsiKO app receives and saves it.
• If you're on pure web (browser only) with no app to receive it, the Web Clipper is a feature meant to be used together with the desktop or mobile app.

Changing the save folder ⚙️

• The default save folder is Clippings.
• You can change it to any folder name you like in Settings ▸ Web Clipper. → Settings & Themes

Gather good material as you go, and it becomes so much richer later when you weave it together with wiki links and look at it through Graph View. On desktop, don't forget you can also ask the AI Agent to "organize this for me!" 🤖

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