How to Use Notion Web Clipper: A Quick Guide

Notion, a popular productivity workspace known for its note-taking, task management, knowledge management, and collaboration capabilities, has undergone several changes and feature updates since its inception. One notable update, which arrived in 2019, introduced the Notion Web Clipper, which offers a seamless and convenient way for Notion users to save pages from the web into their Notion workspace.

Since then, Web Clipper has proven to be a valuable addition to Notion and has managed to amass many users who use it to capture web clippings into their workspace.

This guide will explain Notion Web Clipper, what you can do with it, and the steps to use it effectively.

What Is Notion Web Clipper?

Notion Web Clipper is an extension to Notion that allows you to save any page on the web to your Notion workspace. It is offered as a free browser extension on the desktop for Firefox, Google Chrome, and Brave browsers. On the other hand, mobile devices have a built-in Web Clipper, which lets you save web pages just as quickly without requiring additional tools.

As of writing this, Notion Web Clipper is compatible with a number of websites, such as Wikipedia, the New York Times, Twitter, and Instagram, among others. You can save all kinds of media, such as PDFs, text, images, and videos, from websites to your Notion workspace.

How to Use Notion Web Clipper?

Depending on what platform you’re using Notion on, there are different steps you need to follow to use Web Clipper on your device. Following are the steps to use Web Clipper on desktop and mobile.

I. Using Notion Web Clipper on Desktop

You need the Notion Web Clipper extension to save pages to your Notion Workplace. It is available for all popular browsers, including Google Chrome, Brave, Firefox, and more.

• Download for Google Chrome
• Download for Safari
• Download for Firefox

Steps to use Notion Web Clipper on a Desktop:

1. Go to Notion on your web browser and log in to your account.
2. Open the website/page you want to save to Notion.
3. Click on the Notion extension button next to the search bar.
4. Add a title to your saved link in the Web Clipper extension window.
5. Click on Workspace to select the workspace that you want to add this page to, and similarly, click on Add to pick the page or database that this link should go into.
6. Hit the Save Page button to save the page.

II. Using Notion Web Clipper on Mobile (Android and iOS)

As mentioned, you don’t need an extension to save pages to your Notion workspace on a mobile device. Hence, the approach is straightforward on Android or iOS devices. Download the Notion app and follow the steps below.

How to use Notion Web Clipper on Mobile:

1. Open Notion and log in to your account.
2. Go to the mobile browser/app/blog post with the content you wish to save to your Notion workspace.
3. Click on the share menu button and select Notion from the share options.
4. Give a title to the link in the Title field.
5. Click on Workspace and select the workspace to which you want to add this page; likewise, click on Add to select where you want to put this link in your workspace.
6. Click Save.

What Can You Do With Notion Web Clipper?

Aside from its elemental use case, which saves pages from the web to your Notion workspace, Notion Web Clipper also allows you to turn its links into actionable elements on the page. So, rather than having a vanilla page link coupled with plain text, you can transform it and add notes to bring some context, convert it into a task, add tags to club it together with other similar items in your workspace, or assign it as a task to your teammates.

For instance, if you’re building a resonance calendar or reading list in Notion to organize information, you can use Notion Web Clipper to add content from the web to your Notion page. That way, you can avoid copying and pasting the page URL between your browser and Notion.

Notion Web Clipper also works with templates, so if you use Notion templates, you can utilize the Web Clipper to clip web content into your template.

Related Read: 10 Best Free Notion Templates

Saving Web Clippings to Notion Workspace

Incorporating web references into your Notion workspace makes your pages more dynamic and provides additional context to your entries. And in the process, create more comprehensible notes, task lists, databases, and wikis.

In this regard, Notion’s ability to help you capture any page from the internet into your workspace using Web Clipper is a pretty nifty feature, especially if you use the platform for anything and everything. Since now, you don’t have to juggle between apps to copy-paste items from the web to your Notion workspace.

So, no matter what you use Notion for, we recommend including Web Clipper as part of your workflow to add web clippings to your Notion pages from the web.