Notes from the build
Comparisons, technical write-ups, and the occasional opinion on where the Markdown web-clipper space is going. Written by the people building one of them — disclosed where it matters.
Pocket shut down in 2025. Here's the free, local-first replacement I actually use: clip any article as clean Markdown straight into an Obsidian vault, tag it readlater, and read it on the iPad — no account, no server, and the files are mine. Honest about what's missing, too.
Read the setupMarkDownload — the historical default — was removed from the Chrome Web Store in 2025. The official Obsidian Web Clipper took the throne. A wave of AI-handoff clippers showed up. Here's an honest side-by-side of the six tools an Obsidian or Logseq user might pick from in 2026, including the one I built.
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