Evernote Safari Web Clipper Now Available!

Product updates | 05 Oct 201105 Oct 11 | 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!

Learn more about Web Clipping

Heather

For those of you who miss our Print to PDF from Safari, that has been incorporated into Skitch.
Install Skitch for Mac.

Then, to “print” the frontmost Safari window, simply choose the option from the menu on the Skitch Frame, and from there you can “drag” your selection into Evernote.

For everyone having issues with the Safari clipper itself, we actually have not had any issues reported to Support or on our forums about this. Please contact file a ticket ( http://www.evernote.com/about/contact/support/ ) so we can get this issue identified.
- http://oyvindsolstad.com Oyvind Solstad
  
  Does it capture whole pages? All the way down? Or just the part visible on the screen?
- http://www.intermediarte.org Patricia Martin
  
  Hi Heather,
  I followed your advice and managed to capture a whole page as pdf. As a premium Evernote user I consider that unacceptable. Why should I have to open a second application and then follow a three step process in order to do what previously was done while I was surfing within Safari through the Evernote clipper? I am paying to you guys to make my work easier not to get it more complicated.
  
  Moreover, whith this method, the title of the pdf note in Evernote is the URL of the page while
  the clipper was smart enought to capture the page title itsef. Another thing: since you get the pdf through Skith and not directly from Safari anymore, the web source address is not longer available when the pdf is clipped. You either leave it on the title or you won´t be able to trace the pdf back to the original page.
  
  A real lame solution!
- Vincent Cayenne
  
  As requested by Heather above, I did file a ticket (16051-62536) and, after a bit of back and forth to get details of what I was experiencing and my computing environment, as well as confirming the proper operation of the clipper for Google’s Chrome, I was advised that it’s a bug and that an internal bug report had been filed with the QA team lead.
  
  Perhaps if others also file tickets, the QA team may amass enough info to facilitate getting this fixed…
- Doug
  
  Since Skitch is now the way to get PDF captures of web pages into Evernote, why not have a better connection between skitch and evernote. Now, I have to pdf via skitch, then move the pdf into a note. An option to “PDF to Evernote” would be fab. The GIGANTIC downside of Skitch PDF’s is that there isn’t any live text, it is a rasterized screenshot. #lame.
http://oyvindsolstad.com Oyvind Solstad

Also – why isn’t there a Send to Evernote in Skitch? That doesn’t make sense?
http://www.intermediarte.org Patricia Martin

I’m definitely upset with the changes on the web clipper. I got a premium account just because its ability to clip to pdf pages just with a click. I used to do press clippings I need for my work. Evernote looses almost all of its usefulness for me now.

I really need to know if the “clip to pdf” is functionality is going to be restored anytime soon. Without it I am not going to pay for a premium version and worse: will have to find an alternative for my work now too.

Also what was wrong with the old regular clipper? It was fast, it allowed to see exactly what is clipped, Now I have to wait to pop up that small ugly window…
Patrick

I am also a Premium user, and have to add my voice to the chorus of disappointment with the new web clipper. I, like many others, rely on the save as PDF option. From a UX perspective, you already had a great, intuitive and fast solution — the new popup box is a tragic step backwards.
- Guillermo González de Olano
  
  Same thing here. Please Evernote fix that ASAP
Richard

Hi,
I having just moved over to a new iMac having used a PC for years with Firefox.

With Evernotes on Firefox I was able to highlight a small part of a page – just as a reminder – and when it was clipped the note included the url automatically so I was able to get back to the site when I wanted.

Now I am now using Safari 5.1 but I cannot find the way to clip just a highlighted section or any part for that matter and more important to me the note does not include the URL.

Where am I going wrong please. Or is it easier to go back to Firefox or Chrome
Bill G

i keep on having problems with the Evernote web clipper for Safari.
For each article i want to clip i need to give my login details (yes, also when checking the tick box ‘remember me’. I must say that the previous clipper was far better. And apparently, i’m not the only one to have this experience;
can you please give us a better clip experience. especially if you pay for a premium account, you want this thing to work more efficient and intuitive. thanks Evernote.
Sandeep Patel

I thought I’d add my comments on this as well. I’m a big fan of Evernote and am a premium user. The Safari web clipper worked brilliantly on Snow Leopard, but it’s taking too long for Evernote to provide a clipper that works just as well for OS X Lion. Please get this sorted!
Nicola Philbin

I am here because I am looking for a solution to my issues with the Safari web clipper now I have upgraded to Lion and the latest version of Safari. It is just useless – I also really miss the pdf clipping, I think more than half of the pages I try to clip for research now come up as saying “not clippable”. I also very regularly find that a clip has NOT been saved to Safari, with no error message etc – and I agree on the interface, I much preferred the old one.

I am also a premium user but will NOT be renewing unless this is sorted out. Evernote has been my most useful application for the last year, now it is just not working any more for me, it is just so disappointing.

I luckily still have the old version on an older iMac and I am now holding back from upgrading that computer purely so I can continue to use the older version of Evernote.

Nicola Philbin
David

I guess I’m not the only one still using Safari 5.0.5 for fear of losing the essential clipping features. I think browser clipping is the single most useful feature of Evernote for myself and many other users. What I don’t understand is why Devon Think has continued to provide direct clipping with Safari 5.1 but Evernote can’t seem to do it. Just out of curiosity, I wrote an Applescript that allows for direct clipping from Safari into Evernote. If you can do it with something as simple as Applescript, why can’t Evernote provide this feature?
Matt

Let my pro subscription lapse because of this.
- Chris
  
  I am just about to as well

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