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Evernote Safari Web Clipper Now Available!

Product updates | By Andrew Sinkov
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Our brand new Safari Web Clipper extension is now available from the Apple Extension Gallery. Get it now from Apple in the productivity category. You can also download it directly from our site.

How it works

The Web Clipper is designed to help you save all the great web pages and content that you come across on a daily basis. Whenever you see something you like (a recipe, research topic, travel destination), click on the Web Clipper in your toolbar and you’ll have the content of the page saved forever.

There are three options clipping options for the Safari Web Clipper:

Article clip
Click the clipper when you’re viewing an interesting article, and the clipper will automatically highlight the body of the page. A popup will appear, which allows you to choose your destination notebook and some tags.

Selection clip
Highlight the parts of the page that you like, then click on the elephant. The Web Clipper will send just what you selected—text, images, link, and all— into your Evernote account. You can also do this by selecting an area of the page, right clicking, and choosing Clip selection to Evernote. This method will clip in the background without a popup.

Full page clip
Click the clipper without making a selection, then choose Full page from the clip option drop down. This will place all of the content from the page into your Evernote account. Be aware, that there’s a lot of stuff on a page that you might not want, such as navigation and styles. Take that into account before using the full page option.

Your personal best of list

Whenever you visit a site that you clip from often, you can click the Web Clipper to see a list of everything you’ve ever saved from that site. To access this Best of click on the domain name that appears at the bottom of the clipper popup.

You can also view and search through all of the notes in your Evernote account right from the clipper popup.

Things to keep in mind

There are a few items that we’re working on…

  • When signing into your Evernote account, the cursor doesn’t appear. Don’t worry, it’s there. Just start typing.
  • Due to changes in how Safari Extensions function, we can no longer support the clip to PDF option.
  • All clips are sent to Evernote Web and then synced to your desktop and mobile devices.

We’re excited to have a native clipping experience on Safari. If you were using a Beta version of the extension, please uninstall and reinstall from the extension gallery. For those using the bookmarklet, we recommended switching to the new extension. Happy clipping!

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  • shigeruka

    sadly,
    it doesn’t work on my lion OS.

  • Charlie

    I really wanted to use Evernote, but the clipper in Safari (Mac Lion)
    never worked (it says, “processing …” forever).
    So, I had to switch to Read it Later. It just works perfectly in Mac,
    iPad, and iPhone.
    I just wonder why it’s so difficult to make this simple thing work
    for Evernote ?

  • Yury Savelyev

    Here is one solution that can helps with the clip to PDF option – Add “Send PDF to Evernote” to the OS X Print dialog. http://tjhouston.com/2012/02/adding-send-pdf-to-evernote-to-the-os-x-print-dialog/

  • Jeff C

    Hi,

    Can somebody from Evernote please respond to all of these comments giving us an idea of if, and when the extension will be fixed?

    I share the same problem, and I’m sure I’m not alone in saying it’s seriously impacting my use of Evernote.

    Many thanks,

    Jeff.

  • ilium007

    I have switched back to Safari from Chrome due to privacy concerns only to find the the EN Clipper in Safari is still unusable.

    Why can we still NOT select what Evernote deems an Article ? When I clip as an Article (which is 99% of my clipping) I frequently get some rubbish notion of an article and have to revert to full page clipping.

    I am a premium EN subscriber and will be dropping my subscription should this not get fixed.

    I think it is evident that given the length of this thread that EN have no intention of better support Safari on OSX users.

  • http://www.jdonadio.com Don.a.dio

    I’m still using Safari 5.0.5 as well – but I’m not sure how much longer I can keep it up. Graphics are becoming grainy and it’s painfully slow at times. But the two commands “Add to Evernote” and “Add to Evernote as PDF” are essential to me when right-clicking a webpage.

  • ilium007

    Why are my posts not being added to this thread ? They are relevant and constructive. If you want to make this application a showcase app on OSX it must play properly with Safari.

  • Paul

    The major loss of PDF clipping capability in Safari will also cause me to discontinue my premium subscription. Just not enough response from Evernote to the Premium user community.

  • Jessamyn

    I’ve installed the Evernote web clipper but it doesn’t seem to work. The icon is blank and when I click it, a pop-up window opens that is also blank. Any ideas?

  • S. Irene Virbila

    I used to use a bookmark labelled “clip to evernote” which I accidentally deleted. (I’m talking Safari.) It worked beautifully. The web clipper with the little elephant does not. Most of the time it stalls and a wheel just turns and turns saying “processing…” and never completes. Very frustrating. I’ve now got a huge backup of things I want to clip but no way to do so.
    How can I go back to the more primitive way of clipping to evernote? I also liked it because you could see what you were clipping.

    Thanks.
    Irene

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