Web Clipper: Ways to Clip

The clipper offers several entry points because different pages want different handling. They all produce the same result — a markdown document — so use whichever suits the moment.

The toolbar popup

Click the extension icon. The quickest path: check the name, pick a folder, save.

The side panel

A dockable browser side panel that stays open alongside the page. Useful when you are working through a long article, or clipping several pages in a row without the popup closing each time.

The embedded in-page clipper

Opens directly over the page itself. Handy when you want the page and the clipper visible at full width simultaneously.

The right-click context menu

Right-click anywhere on a page to:

• Save the page.
• Copy the markdown.
• Highlight a selection or an element.
• Open the side panel.
• Open the embedded clipper.

This is the fastest route for "highlight this paragraph" without opening any interface at all.

Keyboard shortcuts

Three actions are bound to shortcuts:

• Open the clipper.
• Quick-clip the page.
• Toggle the highlighter.

Quick-clip is the one to learn. It saves the page with your current template and folder, with no interface and no confirmation.

What you can clip

Three scopes:

Scope	What it captures
Full article	The main content, with navigation, ads and clutter stripped
Selection	Just the text you have selected
Highlights	Only the passages you marked with the highlighter

Article extraction is automatic. On a well-built page it is remarkably clean; on a hostile one, selection or highlights give you manual control.

Before you save

• Edit the document name.
• Add your own notes. Your commentary — why you saved this — is usually worth more later than the article itself.
• Choose the destination folder from the live dropdown.
• Inspect the page variables available for templates, if you are debugging why a template produced the wrong output. See 06 Variables and Filters.

Sharing a clip onward

The clipped markdown can be sent through your browser's native share sheet, without saving it to MDflow first.

A practical workflow

For research, the combination that works well:

1. Highlight as you read (see 04 The Highlighter).
2. Clip the highlights only, not the whole page.
3. Add a note saying why it mattered.

You end up with a document containing the passages you cared about and your reason for caring — which is the part you will actually want in six months, and the part an AI agent can use.