Web Clipper: Overview and Installation

The MDflow Web Clipper is a browser extension that saves and highlights web pages directly into your workspace as clean, durable markdown.

Saving to MDflow requires Pro, because the clipper authenticates with a Personal Access Token. The extension's other destinations — clipboard and local file — work regardless.

Supported browsers

• Chrome and other Chromium browsers — Brave, Arc, Edge.
• Firefox, on desktop and mobile.
• Safari, on macOS, iOS and iPadOS.

What it does

• Captures any web page into your workspace as a markdown document.
• Automatically extracts the main article, stripping navigation, ads and clutter.
• Converts the page to clean markdown.
• Clips the full article, a text selection, or your saved highlights.
• Lets you edit the document name and add your own notes before saving.
• Lets you choose the destination folder from a dropdown populated live from your workspace.

Why clip at all

A bookmark is a promise that a page will still be there. Often it is not — pages move, paywalls descend, sites die, and content is quietly edited.

Clipping takes the part you cared about and makes it yours: plain markdown, in your workspace, searchable, linkable from your other documents, and readable by your AI agents. It survives the original.

Save destinations

Saving to MDflow is the default action. Two alternates sit in the dropdown next to the main save button:

• Copy the markdown to the clipboard.
• Save the markdown as a local file.

Every clip creates a new document. The clipper never appends to or overwrites an existing one. Duplicate names are disambiguated automatically by MDflow.

Where to go next

• 02 Connecting to MDflow — the token setup, and what the error messages mean.
• 03 Ways to Clip — the popup, side panel, in-page clipper, context menu and shortcuts.
• 04 The Highlighter — marking up pages and clipping only what you marked.
• 05 Templates — different treatment for different kinds of page.
• 06 Variables and Filters — pulling data out of a page and reshaping it.
• 07 Properties — typed frontmatter on your clips.
• 08 AI Interpreter — natural-language extraction with your own model.
• 09 Settings, History and Language.

Boundaries

Worth knowing up front:

• Only http and https pages can be clipped. Local files, browser settings pages and extension pages cannot.
• Every clip creates a new document — there is no append-to-existing mode.
• There is no reading view inside the extension. It clips; it does not present.