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Save web pages as Markdown for Obsidian, Notion and other notes apps

By Dehumanize14 November 20262 min read

If you keep research in a notes app, the format matters more than the app. Markdown is plain text with a few conventions. It opens in Obsidian, Notion, Logseq, VS Code and any text editor, and you can search it with the simplest tool.

What a good clip contains

• The main content only, with headings, lists, tables and code blocks intact.
• The title, the source address and the date you saved it.
• Clean links without tracking parameters.

A simple workflow

1. On the page, copy the selection or the whole article as Markdown.
2. Paste it into a new note. Add a tag or two.
3. When you want to use it with AI, paste the note into a chat, with your question first.

Copy for AI gives you the clip with a source line on top, and a word and token estimate so you know how much room the page takes in a chat. It runs in your browser, so the pages you read are not sent to us or anyone else.

Tips

• Keep one note per page, named after the title. It makes search and links easy.
• Copy only the part you need when an article is long. Short notes get used, long ones get forgotten.
• Do not clip pages with personal data of other people into a shared workspace without thinking about who can read it.

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