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# 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](/doc/3bffaf4b-3def-4db6-8c53-df72d1066906).

## 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](/doc/466d2aba-91b7-4325-b55f-0cd310785c03)).
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.