Three ways to choose what to save
- Whole page: Web Paperize finds the main article and leaves out menus, sidebars, and ads.
- Selected text: exactly what you highlighted, even part of a sentence.
- One element: pick a section, table, or code block; nothing around it comes along.
How to save it
- Open the page, click Web Paperize in the toolbar, and set the format to Markdown.
- Click Save as Markdown for the whole page, or Pick an element… to choose one part. For a passage, highlight it, right-click, and choose Save selection as Markdown.
- Open the .md file in any Markdown editor or note app.
What is preserved
Headings, paragraphs, lists, quotes, links, tables, and code blocks—with their line breaks and indentation—are converted to standard Markdown (GitHub Flavored Markdown). Images are kept as links to their original location; they are not downloaded into the file.
Good fits
- Saving documentation and tutorials into your notes.
- Collecting one table or a few quotes from a long page.
- Turning an article into text you can edit, search, and reuse.
When the whole page doesn't work
Some pages—dashboards, feeds, search results, web apps—don't have one main article. Instead of saving a pile of menu text, Web Paperize tells you the page isn't suitable. The same can happen on some technical pages where code blocks or tables can't be extracted reliably. In either case, highlight the part you need or use Pick an element…, and save that.
Honest limits
- Images stay online. If the original site removes or moves them, the links stop working.
- Some sites place content inside closed components that extensions cannot read; that content is not saved.
Try it on a sample page
Open the sample page and save it as Markdown to see how text, code, and tables come out.
How your data is handled
Ordinary webpages are converted locally in Chrome. Web Paperize has no server and does not send page content anywhere; the page itself may still load its own images and scripts as usual.
Read the full privacy policy.
Known issues and fixes are listed on the Support page.