I’ve found it useful to “Clip to Devonthink” from my browser (Firefox) while reading different articles, news, anything that I can relate back to specific topics I speak and write about.
When “Clip to Devonthink” broke my browser last year (it would prevent any further tabs or pages from loading or reloading existing ones, essentially freezing the browser requiring a restart) I started simply copying the URL and used the sorter to “copy from URL on clipboard”.
What I see now is that some of the pages I’ve captured return a 404 error, meaning they’ve either been taken down or moved internally to a different URL. That kind of defeats the purpose of using DevonThink to capture different articles and news surrounding various topics relevant to my work.
So I thought I’d ask the good people here, how do you approach adding material from the web to DevonThink? PDF? Website archive? Straight URL (and hope for the best)? Some other method?
In fact I did a search and read quite a bit. I found a lot about all the various formats DTP supports and how to save each type, but little on why one would choose one over another, which work best for different strategies, etc.
Will definitely aim for PDF for long term, as most research papers and journal articles use that format and it doesn’t take up much space.
I think there is no consensus or even common understanding of what works best in what circumstances. It’s mainly down to the ever-changing whims of the web sites.
Me: I “print” to PDF and save the PDF to DEVONthink. Works 95% of the time. If it doesn’t work, same works if I do it not on macOS, but on iPhone. Why? Dunno.