I have problems getting content from Safari into DT3. I import via the Sorter (menu item), but the file seems empty. Upon closer inspection it seems that text is there, but it is invisible (if I try to mark it with the mouse, something is being marked; if I copy and paste it into a Drafts document. text appears). So apparently white text on white background is the problem.
When I take the same webpage and print it to a pdf (via the Mac OS print dialogue) and import it directly into DT3, no problems arise.
This is a bit difficult to describe – hence I try to attach two files showing the problem. I’d be grateful for any help as this complicates use of DT3 very much for me. Initially I thought this might have to do with my old MBP which ran Mojave, but having now switched to the new MBP under Catalina, it persists.
It has nothing to do with that specific URL. I can send you two other files where the same problem applies. I am puzzled, too! Here, the file seems to have no content at all…
1.) Yes.
2.) I will give it another try later (off to a videoconference in two minutes), but that problem even survived a change of MacBooks, so I guess the answer will be yes.
It does persist after rebooting the machine.
It also happened on my previous MacBook Pro running Mojave, but only from time to time.
What can I do to isolate the causes as it seems to be a specific problem here rather than a general one?
Sorry for late reply, I was away for a few days.
No, I did not use the „clutter-free“ option.
Thanks for helping find the problem - let me know if I can provide more information about my setup!
These are two different but site-specific issues of the WebKit framework, unfortunately it wasn’t possible so far to work around them. Therefore the best option is to print the page to DEVONthink.
So do I understand correctly that I am just unlucky in the choice of sites? Both FAZ and Guardian did work well back with with DTPO 2 – am I therefore right to assume that something must have changed on the software side in DT3?
Perhaps FAZ and/or Guardian changed something? Web site designers sometimes go over the top with complexity to make it “look good”. Their frequency of change is probably often.
Clipping is basically still the same but it’s of course possible that the sites changed and/or that an update of macOS and its WebKit framework introduced this issue.
I’ve had the same problem since I updated the last time…except the export doesn’t show up as blank in my database, but as a bookmark (web location) regardless of which setting I use, in particular a paginated PDF. Always a bookmark. Driving me bonkers. Any website. I’m still on Mojave using DT3.5.2.
I rebooted just last week. The behavior is the same. I saw something in the thread above that hinted perhaps it is a paywall thing, but I can’t even save https://leananki.com/zettelkasten-method-smart-notes/ as a PDF using the Sorter (goes in as a bookmark).
