Obsidian Webclipper

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I’ve tried out a lot of web clippers to save articles and things I come across on the Web, everything from Readwise to Pocket to Memex.

I’ve now settled on Obsidian Webclipper, here are my thoughts on it:

• Obsidian’s web clipper is supported by basically all browsers, and also has an iOS extension!

  

  all the supported browsers

• Natively parses and saves webpages to Markdown files. This allows everything to remain local and accessible, without having to worry about broken links/missing webpages in the future!

  

• The only downside of this is that you lose site-specific formatting, e.g. same website below:

  

  • The UI/UX of a website contributes a lot to the intended message and nuance of an article, stripping everything away into a flat Markdown file loses a lot of that.

  • This is my only gripe with the clipper though!

• Obsidian web clipper natively allows you to save highlights from webpages, making it super easy to take notes while reading.

  

• Also, it supports custom templates which allow you to customise how your notes are saved. My setup looks something like below

  

  • Here’s the code you can copy and paste into web clipper’s settings to replicate my setup:

    ## Thoughts:
    - **[[{{time|date:"YYYY-MM-DD"}}|{{time|date:"ddd, MMM DD, YY"}}]] at {{time|date:"h:mm a"}}:**
    	- <% tp.file.cursor() %>
    
    ## Highlights:
    
    {{highlights|template:"> ${text}\n- <% tp.file.cursor() %>\n\n"|join:""}}
    
    ---
    # {{title}}
    
    {{content}}

• Obsidian web clipper also deeply integrates with Obsidian for an all-in-one knowledge management setup. My tagging system works perfectly, as well as my note-linking and semantic connection workflows.

  

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That’s about it, definitely recommend!