I appreciate the frustration. And BLUEFROG’s explanation makes sense: apparently it’s just not that easy to consistently clip material from a huge variety of web pages. I’ve come up with two solutions, using Safari:
Page Screenshot for Safari on the Mac App Store, per my post above, then OCRing it to pdf; the advantage of this (even over Evernote) is that it preserves the exact look and layout of the page. Inline links, unfortunately, don’t work.
With some help from DT Support, I made an AppleScript shortcut that creates and opens a blank Formatted Note with the correct URL and page title. Then I simply copy and paste whatever I want from the page into that open note. If the formatting is wonky, I will usually just select “Reader View” before copying; that at least gets the text and usually any inline images. The helpful post with the script was here: Difference between clipping Safari page to formatted note and copying/pasting into formatted note - #8 by pete31
Of course the third option is just to use Evernote, and then import into DT3 if necessary. That’s not something I do too often, but it works for some scenarios. When repeatedly clipping simple things – for example, I keep a list of words and definitions I’ve looked up, and DT3 is useless at clipping the dictionary I use – I just use Evernote.
And I didn’t know about Nimbus Clipper; I’ll check it out!
Indeed! Now, that was some time ago when I ran into that. The finer point of it is, Evernote has always had a big influx of capital investment and a team that far exceeds ours in numbers. So they have the ability to create a group of developers who can concentrate on singular features or smaller sets of functionality.
Rehashing the discussion, and I think this question is related to the last comment from Jim about “reloading the page”.
Is there a setting to change from giving permission to Devonthink to clip every page or URL every time one tries to clip a page, instead of giving the entire Chrome application permission one time?
