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Save web pages directly from your browser with a single click or keyboard shortcut.

Screen with browsers on Desktop: Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera-Browser and Brave

What It Does

Browser Clips captures the content of any web page and adds it to your pinakea timeline. The page is converted to clean Markdown, summarized, and made searchable — all without leaving your browser.

Set scope

Browser Clips are saved into your currently selected Set. If you use multiple Sets, switch Sets first so the clip lands in the right library. See Sets (Libraries).

Supported Browsers

  • Chromium browsers (supported):
    • Google Chrome (Stable, Beta, Dev, Canary)
    • Chromium
    • Ungoogled Chromium
    • Brave (Stable, Beta, Nightly)
    • Microsoft Edge (Stable, Beta, Dev, Canary)
    • BrowserOS
    • Opera (Stable, Beta, Developer, GX)
    • Vivaldi (Stable, Snapshot)
    • Arc
    • Dia
    • Comet
    • ChatGPT Atlas
    • Avast Secure Browser
    • Epic Privacy Browser
    • Yandex Browser
    • NAVER Whale
    • Sidekick
    • Wavebox
    • Iridium Browser
    • Thorium
  • Safari

Both use the same underlying system. Clips from any browser appear in a single unified “Browser Clips” source.

pinakea Clipper

The pinakea Clipper for Chrome and Safari uses the same extraction engine as the Obsidian Web Clipper. If you’ve used the Obsidian extension, you know the quality — pinakea’s extraction is just as good.

pinakea automatically picks the best extraction for each page. If the clean reader-style extraction misses content (which can happen on unusual page layouts), it falls back to full-text extraction so nothing gets lost.

Key Features

YouTube Transcripts

When you save a YouTube video, pinakea automatically fetches and stores the transcript. This means you can search for spoken content and get AI summaries of videos — not just the title and description.

YouTube summaries and chat

pinakea captures the transcript as the clip’s content (with timestamps). In Online Mode, summaries and chat use OpenRouter. In Mixed Mode, summaries can run locally, while chat still requires an OpenRouter API key.

Smart Deduplication

Saving the same page twice updates the existing item rather than creating a duplicate. pinakea uses canonical URLs to identify pages, so minor URL variations don’t create clutter.

Offline Capture

If pinakea isn’t running when you save a page, the clip is queued. Next time you open pinakea, all queued clips are imported automatically.

Export and Import

Browser Clips can be exported to Markdown files (with frontmatter) and imported on another machine. This makes it easy to transfer your saved pages or back them up.

Export/import lives in Settings → Maintenance → Browser Clips.

Setup

Chrome / Chromium Browsers

The Chrome extension ships with pinakea and is installed from inside the app.

  1. Choose pinakea → Install or Update Chrome Extension…
  2. Choose whether to prepare only your default Chromium browser or all detected Chromium browsers
  3. Follow the in-app instructions to open chrome://extensions, enable Developer Mode, and choose Load Unpacked
  4. Use Reveal Folder in the app when Chrome asks for the extension folder
  5. If needed, use Settings → Sources → Reauthorize to repair connector access

When pinakea updates, it refreshes the staged extension folder automatically after startup. Your browser picks up the refreshed extension after you reload the extension or restart the browser. If you install a new Chromium browser later, run Install or Update Chrome Extension… again so pinakea can add that browser’s native messaging connector.

Safari

  1. The Safari extension is bundled with pinakea
  2. Open Safari → Settings → Extensions
  3. Enable the pinakea Clipper extension
  4. Grant site access when prompted

Usage

  • Click the pinakea Clipper icon in your browser toolbar
  • Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+B on Mac, using the physical Control key (not Command)
  • Right-click on a page and choose “Save to pinakea”

A small toast notification confirms the save. When the browser toolbar icon is visible, its badge also shows progress and a green checkmark for a successful save.