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Evernote Chrome Extension Gets Improved Article Clipping

Product updates | By Andrew Sinkov
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We’re always making our web extensions smarter so that you spend less time clipping and more time browsing. Today, we have a very cool update to our Google Chrome Extension, which helps you do just that.

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Customizable Article Clipping

Several months ago, we introduced Article Clip, which lets you click once for Evernote to automatically figure out the area of the webpage that you want to save. If you’re looking at a blog post, an Article Clip is usually the body of the post, but what if you also want to grab the comments? Now, you can easily add that to your clip using only your arrow keys.

Go to a blog post and click on the Chrome Extension without selecting anything. The extension will highlight the area it thinks you want to clip. Now, use the arrow keys to expand or change the selected area. Up and down arrows make the selected area bigger or smaller. Left and right arrows move between sections of the page. Give it a shot. It’s really fun.

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We’ve also added a few Article Selection-related options to the extension. Find them by right clicking on the Evernote icon in the browser toolbar.

More extension updates to come

We’re working on adding functionality to all of our extensions. Safari users stay tuned; your update is coming very soon.

  • http://unretrofied.com/ Chris Gonzales

    I’ve been wondering if you guys would allow users to adjust the article clipping area. I might’ve gone with something other than arrow keys (perhaps dragging the borders, much like expanding/shrinking an app window) but any progress is better than none! Thanks guys.

  • Scott Smith

    The article clip disappeared for me a couple updates ago – it is still not there for me in version 5.1.17.5511 of the extension. Any idea why that would be? I really liked the article clip when it was there.

  • Dirk

    That’s funny… I just came to your Page to request the Comment-Feature for the Clipper. When did you plan to deploy it for Firefox?
    Regards Dirk

  • http://domof.com/p/help.html InstinctIS

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  • http://www.tidal-web.com Jim Coleman

    Awesome job! Just tried it. Really cool and helpful!

  • http://BillRoyko.com Bill Royko

    Great addition! This makes it so easy to customize the selection before clipping.

  • dennis

    Is there anything existing Google extension users need to do or is auto updated?

    • Andrew Sinkov

      It should autoupdate. If it hasn’t updated for you yet, you might try restarting the browser. If it still doesn’t update, then just give it some time. It can take a day for everyone to get the update.

    • http://zizukabi.blogspot.com Kabi Park

      I just removed the existing extension and re-installed the extension so that all things work! :)

  • Dave Yuhas

    Can’t scroll the page while the article clipper is active.

  • OnHD

    Safari? Hello!

  • MrPetkus

    The Chrome extension is outstanding. Great job! However, can you tell me why the Evernote plugin for Chrome clips web pages with far better fidelity than the Firefox plugin? For example, Evernote-Chrome captures the format of a web page near flawlessly while Evernote-Firefox makes a mess of things.
    It is for this primary reason that I’ve switched from Firefox to Chrome even though I prefer Firefox for most everything else.

    Thanks again!

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