# Web Clipper: save the page without leaving it.

Source: https://www.secondbrain.media/guide/clipper  
Language: en  
Spanish version: https://www.secondbrain.media/guide/clipper.es.md

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A browser extension that sends the page you are reading into your workspace. On the other side it gets cleaned up, summarized, matched to your Atlas entities and filed on its own under the document it belongs to. It shows up in Memory → Clips, alongside the rest of your material.

## Installing and connecting it

It installs from the Chrome Web Store, and runs on anything that speaks Manifest V3: Chrome, Edge, Brave and Arc.

[Install the Web Clipper](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/secondbrain-web-clipper/aandjckpdnmigoghfabjdkajgaihcpkc)

1. **You install it** — One click in the store. Installing it does not ask you to let it "read and change your data" on any site: the extension enters a tab only when you press the button, and only that tab.
2. **You hit "Connect with Secondbrain"** — Your workspace opens, already knows who you are, issues the permission and hands it back to the extension alone. One click, nothing to copy or paste.
3. **Clips already have a destination** — The permission carries the workspace with it: the extension does not choose where clips go, the permission does. If pairing cannot run — another browser, a signed-out session — pasting a connection code by hand is still there, folded under the button.

You cut access whenever you want from Account settings → MCP. Once revoked, the next clip fails and the extension disconnects itself.

## The three ways to save

Hit the icon — or ⌘⇧S — and pick what gets sent. The mode changes the content, not the destination.

- **Article** — The readable content of the page, without menus, banners or sidebars. This is the default.
- **Selection** — Only the stretch you highlighted. It is picked automatically if something was selected when you opened the popup.
- **Link only** — No content, no clipping: the URL and its metadata. For what you want on record and have not read yet.

Before saving you can fix the title, leave a note — why are you saving this? — and choose which document it goes under, or let the AI decide.

| Shortcut | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| ⌘⇧S / Ctrl+Shift+S | Opens the clipper on the current page |
| ⌘⇧E / Ctrl+Shift+E | Saves the page without opening the popup |
| ⌘↵ | Save, with the popup open |
| Esc | Close the popup |

There is a right-click menu too: on the page, on a selection, and on a link you never even opened.

## Why an extension and not a box to paste URLs into

The extension saves the page you have open, exactly as you are seeing it. That includes what sits behind a login, what loaded as you scrolled, and what is only visible because you already dismissed the cookie notice.

Pasting the URL into a box gets none of that: whoever opens it afterwards is someone who never signed in, so they hit the paywall, the banner, or a blank page.

You can also save a link without opening it — from the right-click menu, or with the + in the Clips list — which is handy for what you already had noted somewhere else. But if the link needs a session it will come in trimmed: for what you are reading, saving it from the tab always comes out better.

## What happens to the clip on the other side

The popup closes in under a second: the clip is saved and the reading continues in the background. You don't have to wait with the window open — the clip shows up in the app right away and completes itself.

In a single pass, the AI pulls out of the page:

- A summary of three to eight sentences, and three to six key points.
- A short title, for when the original is a fourteen-word SEO headline.
- The clip type: what the page is, not what it is about. The catalogue starts with Article, Documentation, Research, Product, Video, News and Reference, and fills itself in from what you save — with a cap, so it doesn't end up one label per clip.
- The Atlas entities the page mentions and your workspace already knows: projects, organizations, people and topics.
- The document it would go under, proposed against your own tree. You accept or dismiss it with a button; nothing moves on its own.

> **Re-clipping does not duplicate**
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> Uniqueness is the workspace plus the canonical URL: saving the same page twice updates the clip that was already there and reads it again, instead of leaving you two. It works that way because the page may have changed, and because re-clipping is usually exactly for that.

## Clips inside the app

They live in Memory → Clips, next to documents, files and recaps.

- The list filters by clip type and by site, and by the entities the AI detected: projects, organizations, topics and people.
- Each clip opens with two tabs, Summary and Page. Under Page you choose between the saved clipping — how it looked the day you saved it — and the live site.
- Your key points, your note and the suggested document sit at the top, with Accept and Dismiss. The original is one click away.
- You can run the AI again when the reading did not come out right, and what you delete goes to the trash.

[Everything in Memory](/guide/memory)

## The permission, and what the extension cannot do

- It stores an API token issued by your own account, with the workspace already attached. Only its hash lives in the database.
- It declares no host permissions: it cannot inject anything or read a site on its own. It only enters the tab you picked, when you picked it.
- The message the app connects it with is heard only by the origins declared in its manifest. Another site knowing the extension's id is not enough to talk to it.
- It writes into your workspace and nothing else: it neither reads nor touches another account's content.

[Account security](/guide/account-security)

## Keep reading

- [Memory, docs and canvas](https://www.secondbrain.media/guide/memory) — Documents, live collaboration, canvases, files and AI.
- [Atlas and knowledge graph](https://www.secondbrain.media/guide/atlas) — People, projects and organizations, linked on their own.
- [Web and desktop app](https://www.secondbrain.media/guide/web) — The full workspace, in your browser or on your desktop.