Clipwise Add to Chrome
Chrome extension · free

Save any page to Notion. The whole article, not half of it.

One click puts an article in your Notion database: the full text, the source and date filled in, and the lines you highlighted at the top. No account with us, and no server in between.

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Highlight, save, and it’s in Notion. 11 seconds, real extension.
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One button, and the page arrives in Notion finished

paulgraham.com/greatwork.html?utm_source=newsletter&fbclid=ax91
The page
How to Do Great Work
If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like?
I decided to find out by making it.
Your Notion database

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How to Do Great Work
AuthorPaul Graham
PublishedJuly 2023
TagsEssays To read
Full article, links and formatting intact.
Ready — this is the real flow, in miniature
What it does

Built for the parts of clipping that usually go wrong

It finds the actual article

Menus, sidebars, cookie banners and comment sections stay behind. Links stay clickable, bold stays bold, and code blocks, quotes, lists and images come along.

reads inside web components and lazy-loaded images

Properties filled in before saving

Author, source and publication date are picked up from the page. Pick a status and tags in the popup, and the page lands in Notion finished instead of as a row to clean up later.

remembers your usual database and values

It knows what you already saved

Open an article that's already in your database and Clipwise links you straight to the page you have, instead of quietly making a second one.

?utm_source, fbclid, gclid and friends are ignored

It says when a page is thin

If a page yields almost no text, Clipwise tells you before saving — so you don't find an empty page in your database three weeks later.

plain-language errors, never a red exclamation mark

One shortcut for the rest

Pages you just want kept go straight to your last database without anything opening at all.

Ctrl+Shift+S — Cmd+Shift+S on a Mac

Highlight while you read

Select a sentence and right-click, or press a shortcut. It turns yellow on the page, and when you save, your highlights sit at the top of the Notion page as quotes.

Alt+Shift+H — kept on your computer until you save

In the popup

What it looks like while you use it

The Clipwise popup with a database selected and its properties filled in

Choose the database, set status and tags, and save. The second clip takes one click.

Clipwise showing three highlights from the article, which are saved at the top of the Notion page

Highlight as you read. The highlights go along when you save, at the top of the page.

Clipwise showing that the page is already saved, with a link to the existing Notion page

Already saved? You get a link to the page you have, not a duplicate.

Clipwise warning that a page yields very little text

A page with almost no text says so before it goes anywhere.

Privacy

There is no server to trust, because there is no server

Most clippers ask you to sign in with them first, which means your pages travel through someone else's machine. Clipwise talks to one host and one host only.

your browser
└─▶ api.notion.com  (your workspace)
└─▶ clipwise servers
└─▶ analytics
secret stored in chrome.storage.local
permissions: activeTab, scripting, storage, contextMenus
  • ×No account, no login, no email address.
  • ×No analytics, telemetry or crash reporting inside the extension.
  • ×Nothing runs on a page until you click the icon, press a shortcut or choose Highlight from the right-click menu.
  • ×Your Notion secret stays on your computer and is sent only to Notion.
  • ×Clipping stays free. It will never sit behind a paywall.
Setup

Three steps, once. About two minutes.

Create an integration

At notion.so/my-integrations, make an internal integration and copy the secret that starts with ntn_.

Paste it into Clipwise

The setup guide opens by itself after installing. Paste the secret there — it goes no further than your own browser.

Share a database with it

In Notion, open the database you clip into, choose ··· › Connections and add the integration. That's it.

Full setup guide, step by step →

Free

All of it is free. No account, no catch.

Whole articles, properties filled in, highlights, YouTube videos, the shortcut and nine Notion templates. Clipwise has no server and no sign-up, so there is nothing to pay for.

Everything in the extension

Save whole articles or just a selection, with the title, source, date and summary filled in and your highlights at the top.

free forever

Nine Notion templates

A reading list, second brain, research library, job tracker, travel planner and more. The columns fill themselves in.

see the templates →

Questions

The things people ask first

Is it really free?

Yes. Saving pages, highlights, YouTube videos and every template are free, with no account. There is no paid plan. Clipwise runs in your browser and talks straight to Notion, so it costs nothing to keep running.

Can I highlight parts of a page?

Yes. Select text, right-click and choose Highlight with Clipwise, or press Alt+Shift+H. When you save, the highlights go to the top of the Notion page and stay yellow inside the article. Saved the page already? Highlight more and add them to the page you have. It's free, like the rest.

Why do I need a Notion integration secret?

It's how Notion lets a tool write into your workspace without a middleman. Other clippers avoid that step by putting their own account and server in between. This way the connection is yours, and you can revoke it in Notion at any time.

What about Firefox, Safari or mobile?

Chrome and Chromium browsers (Edge, Brave, Arc) today. Firefox and Safari need their own store listings, which is more work than it sounds, so they're not promised yet.

Which pages does it struggle with?

Pages built entirely out of images, and sites that load their article only after you scroll. If you find one that comes through wrong, that's the most useful thing you can send me — most fixes in version 0.2 started as exactly that kind of report.

Who makes this?

One person: Roan, a developer in the Netherlands. Clipwise started because every clipper I tried wanted an account before it would talk to my own Notion.

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