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

By Dehumanize14 November 20262 min read

## In short

- Markdown opens in any notes app, so you are not locked in.
- A good clip has the main content and a source line.
- Keep notes short and one per page.

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](https://dehumanize.eu/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.

### Do this on any page in one click

Copy for AI turns a selection or a whole web page into clean Markdown, without menus, ads or tracking links. Free, no account.

[Add to Chrome, free](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fgcjlhehfbigcmibdilbnfpafmpnnaan) [See Copy for AI](https://dehumanize.eu/copy-for-ai/)

[Read nextHow to copy a web page as clean Markdown for ChatGPT, Claude or Notion](https://dehumanize.eu/guides/copy-web-page-as-markdown/) [Read nextHow to use fewer tokens when you paste web pages into AI: the Markdown trick](https://dehumanize.eu/guides/reduce-ai-token-usage-with-markdown/)

More: [all guides](https://dehumanize.eu/guides/) · [Scrub for AI](https://dehumanize.eu/scrub-for-ai/) · [Copy for AI](https://dehumanize.eu/copy-for-ai/) · [Tables for AI](https://dehumanize.eu/tables-for-ai/)

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Source: https://dehumanize.eu/guides/save-web-pages-as-markdown-for-obsidian-and-notion/
Summary: Web clipping without lock in: keep articles as plain Markdown with the source link, so your notes stay readable in any app, now and later.
Publisher: Dehumanize, support@dehumanize.eu