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# 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](/doc/5c504c17-64be-489c-8830-4789fb3ceb75) — the token setup, and what the error messages mean.
- [03 Ways to Clip](/doc/16f31233-5d90-427d-acc7-bc9e2c1b7e9a) — the popup, side panel, in-page clipper, context menu and shortcuts.
- [04 The Highlighter](/doc/466d2aba-91b7-4325-b55f-0cd310785c03) — marking up pages and clipping only what you marked.
- [05 Templates](/doc/0748c8b4-83f4-4af8-a81c-303c8dacfa71) — different treatment for different kinds of page.
- [06 Variables and Filters](/doc/3bffaf4b-3def-4db6-8c53-df72d1066906) — pulling data out of a page and reshaping it.
- [07 Properties](/doc/ed2210c4-8301-4474-b2e3-5af726a8d4c4) — typed frontmatter on your clips.
- [08 AI Interpreter](/doc/4083577d-96da-4ee2-8e3b-1faee2410775) — natural-language extraction with your own model.
- [09 Settings, History and Language](/doc/18e5ce0b-882b-41d3-9153-8ecfcf605e5f).

## 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.