I’m starting out in Devonthink, loving how much there is to offer, but am having trouble finding a detailed explaination of the Web Clipper options. Looking at the Extension in both Chrome and Safari, it’s incredible how possible it is to fine tune a clipping! I’m hoping there is a help page that breaks down the details of each of the options I see:
Rich Text
Bookmark
Formatted Note
HTML Page
Markdown
Web Archive
PDF (One Page)
PDF (Paginated)
I realize a few are self-explanatory, but I’m trying to make sense of all of them so that I can compare them and come up with guidelines for myself for the best time to use each of them. Thanks for any links or pointers!
They are all pretty self-explanatory and your question is vague. The “best time to use” whichever option really depends on how you intend to use the web clippings. Are you trying to save a snapshot of a website in time? I’d probably go with PDF or Web Archive for that. Just want to save an article? Pretty much any of the formats work (I tend to go with Markdown for that). In sum, there really isn’t a “best time” for any of them. It’s all about what you want to do with the content you’re saving.
I apologize for being too vague, as my question was quite wordy.
I’ll try to be more to the point:
There are Help Pages dedicated to each item on the menu, for example The View Menu. While most of the menu is self-explanatory, Devonthink, to it’s credit, has a page dedicated to explaining each option in detail regardless of how common each menu choice is.
I’m asking if Devonthink has the same types of pages, in the knowledge base or support section, set up for explaining the Clipping Options dialog box.
That I do not know, though @BLUEFROG certainly will. As I said in my previous post, I think what’s “best” will depend on your particular needs. Good luck, and welcome to the DT community.
No, I hadn’t, and that’s the sort of thing I was hoping for, and I also found a few videos in MacSparky’s DEVONthink Field Guide, so combined with your link, I should be good to go! Thank you!
Only one footnote: Hoakley from The Eclectic some days ago confirmed that Webarchive has a lot of issues in the latest macOS incarnations to the level of not being able to open one created with a previous Safari version or even after some tiny updates, which means Apple has stopped taking care of the format and it survives by chance, well, more or less like PDF in macOS.
Thanks for any links or pointers!
