Chrome Extension / Web clipper
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Steffen Bleher
Fast input from your web browser to capacities, allowing you to capture while you browse the web.
- Save text snippets to your daily note
- Save the opened website to capacities and immediately take notes on it on a side-panel
- Save in-page links to capacities
- Save images, videos, and PDFs to capacities
Should we also have:
- Safari Extension?
- Firefox add-ons?
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Wesley Jensen
I'd say don't bother with Web Highlighter's Capacities integration (which sends highlights to Weblinks). I've tried it. You can do better with select, copy, and paste (without all the extra steps).
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Wesley Jensen
This is only partially complete, really. I know there are plans for more, as in https://docs.capacities.io/reference/web-extension#what-s-next-for-the-web-extension
In the meantime, there is copy and paste.
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Andrew Bough
Firefox is essential. Sofari may be useful
Luca Joos
Andrew Bough: Both are out!
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Kuntal Go
Thank you for the browser extension. It has the much needed options of choosing workspace, adding tags and adding custom notes.
One very crucial option is still missing.
A checkbox to extract content of the page.
This will give the flexibility to either use it to capture web content as a bookmark or save it later with the content of the page.
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Chris H
I hoped after more than 10 years of using evernote (+some notion testing) to finally move to Capacities after having a Capacities WEB CLIPPER (like the evernote version), not a link clipper...
Two simple reasons for that:
- through the last 20 years I saved a lot of interesting links, but did not always save the content connected to it and experienced again and again after coming back to the links months or years later, that the website was shut down and the content lost for me
=>so I only feel calm when I have saved the content myself
- want to have my content saved to one place
=>makes it much easier
So looks like i'll be sticking with evernote for now, but would love to see a proper web clipper in the foreseeable future and try to support this as a believer.
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jr Leo
Leaving a odd, and prolly a bad and negative comment here.
if its just a simple , add link to capacities..... for the odd folks, sure. But i dont see the point in the Chrome Extension.
Web clipper ? unless im installing it wrong or theres settings to configure, it basically just [ saves the link , to capacities ] ?
no screenshot of the web page, nor copying of the web content ....
i Dont get the point of this Feature and marked as completed.
To me, web clipping means, copying of the ENTIRE web page, with image or at least the main written article on the site with html links,
not [ just another bookmark ] feature ......
i apologize if its rude and if i have misinterpreted the word [ web clipper ]
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Daryl Adair
jr Leo At this point (Version 1) it is basically a bookmark linker, much like Raindrop, that copies URL and cover image. I agree that it needs to offer much more to be practical for PKM purposes. I tried the tagging option, but abandoned doing so because (1) it doesn't give me any hints about what tag I should be using (which Capacities does), and (2) even when I remember the correct tag it is added into Capacities as a duplicate with the same name, which means I have to go in and edit. I have (3) been using "Readwise Reader | The first read-it-later app built for power readers" to parse online web sources as html text. I then use Hookmark to connect the full text link to Capacities and, if need be, I copy and paste to Capacities highlights and notes. This is a long winded workaround while we await something more substantial from Capacities. I presume that html parsing will be in a future version?
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Daryl Adair
p.s. Instapaper today announced highlighting of web pages.
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jr Leo
Daryl Adair I dont mind if its just ver 1,
but if thats the case, it shouldnt be marked as Completed
or change it as Hooklinking only... =/
this is for sure false advertising.
its more hilarious when i took a look at the review, do people have no brain or are those bots ?
even Microsoft edge's [ Collection is much better ]
btw, tagging works for searching, but alas, it depends how you setup your PKM.
I came from ample note, and THAT is PROPER clipper... this is just pathetic, to be brutally honest
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Daryl Adair
jr Leo Thx, Leo. I get tagging suggestions inside Capacities but not in the Web Clipper. I presume it is not offered as yet?
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jr Leo
Daryl Adair the tagging, works, no issues from me.
the Web clipping ? nope, just saving web sites as bookmarks.... i dont even know the point of it.
As for tagging in web linking saver, it makes even less sense, since one has to basically click on the link to see what is going on to recall what the website was about
Johann Chaulet
I've tried it and it seems very nice. I just started it using capacities and that is a good thing to make me stay.
A quick comment though : I just clipped something adding a tag I had never used before (and that is something one will probably do as you browse the internet gathering new stuff on the way). And the thing is the tag has been added and seems to exist in various places in the app but it is not listed in the tag section when I display them "all". it only appears when the dashboard is selected. That looks as a bug to me which is quite annoying because I cannot handle it the way I would like to.
Steffen Bleher
complete
A "version 1" of the Capacities Web Extension is part of release 38. 🥳
You can read more about it here: https://capacities.io/whats-new/release-38
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Kuntal Go
Steffen Bleher Thank you for the launch.
Can we please have
- hints/ suggestions of tags (without which even a slight mistake in typing or spacing will create duplicate tags)
- checkbox to save the content of the webpage.
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David Griffiths
Yes, we would definitely benefit from a Safari clipper as it’s a very commonly used browser among us Apple-based knowledge workers.
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Tamas King
Safari and Chrome
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