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A Firefox and Google Chrome extension to clip websites and download them into a readable markdown file.

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Yes and no.

Instead of PDF, use Markdownload (on iOS, use a Safari web content to markdown file extension):

https://github.com/deathau/markdownload

And save in a journaled folder like "YYYY-MM-DD - Page Title.md" with a YAML frontmatter of all available metadata.

Have this as a folder in your PKM of choice (Obsidian, Foam, whatever).

These days, point some text embedding at it, and let it generate your own LLM brain.

But you can also static-site-generate that back into your own web knowledge site or base.

If you don't need it locally, and depending on the capture you want, consider pinboard.in or historio.us:

https://pinboard.in/

https://historio.us/

Looking at the link you gave does not help much in seeing what DiskerNet does and looks like, neither.

Keeping it simple, I download pages in Markdown adding some metadata (some tags). When I want images or more I use singlefile extension. Add Recoll to the mix and that's all I need.

https://github.com/deathau/markdownload

https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/pages/index-recoll.htm...

Consider using the Markdownload extension to save clean content formatted as markdown (.md) files to your PKM of choice.

Firefox / Chrome: https://github.com/deathau/markdownload

Safari on MacOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/markdownload/id1554029832?mt=1...

For iOS, use Toolbox Pro for Shortcuts and search for or create a Safari to Markdown file stored in the PKM's inbox. (Or Orion browser with extensions.)

The reason I don't use bookmarks in browsers is that I can't stash a copy of the page for offline use and I need to properly categorize it for it to be usable later.

The best way I've found is to use the MarkDownload[1] extension for firefox, and download a markdown version of the page into my notable[2] folder. That way, a markdown version of the page I'm interested in becomes part of my notes, becomes taggable, searchable, gets synced, etc. And I don't need to spend time properly categorizing it. All the bookmarked sites and their content become fuzzy-searchable (fzf). Very convenient.

1. https://github.com/deathau/markdownload 2. https://notable.app

This is my alternative which tries to convert a page to Markdown: https://github.com/deathau/markdownload
Have you tried Markdownload? It's a browser extension that saves and downloads web content as markdown. I use it all the time on my desktop but it's a browser extension and supports Safari, so maybe it's helpful for you too.

https://github.com/deathau/markdownload

BTW, as for now I mainly use it to help me learning Japanese:

- See/Hear some Japanese words I don't understand

- Search it on goo (Japanese dictionary website)

- Clip it with Markdownload (https://github.com/deathau/markdownload)

- Format it with my plugin

- Read the content, weave the backlinks

Keep doing this then I have the super complicated graph in the plugin demo gif you can see.