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