Pocketdown — Markdown Web Clipper: Pages, Video & PDF

One-click Markdown web clipper: save any web page, article, video captions or PDF as clean, portable Markdown. Local & private.

Pocketdown is a fast, private Markdown web clipper. Turn any web page, article, video captions, or PDF into a clean Markdown note — then keep it in your own local library or send it to the note app you already use. Everything runs locally in your browser, so your reading and your notes never leave your device. If you live in Markdown — a personal knowledge base, a wiki, or a plain folder of .md files — Pocketdown is the clipper built for you. ✂️ CLIP ANYTHING • Web pages & articles → clean Markdown (clutter, ads and nav removed) • Video captions → a timestamped transcript with links back to the exact moment (works with auto-generated captions, too) • PDFs (online or local) → Markdown, with headings, lists and paragraphs rebuilt • Selections, single elements, or the whole page — you choose 🧩 SITE TEMPLATES + VARIABLES (the power feature) Auto-apply a note template based on the page’s URL or its schema.org type — a research paper, a recipe, a product page — each with its own file name, frontmatter properties, and body. • Rich variables: {{title}} {{author}} {{published}} {{description}} {{url}} {{date}} • Page-derived: CSS selectors {{selector:.price}}, schema.org {{schema:aggregateRating.ratingValue}}, meta tags {{meta:og:image}} • Filters: {{date|format:YYYY-MM-DD}} {{title|slug}} {{description|truncate:200}} • Custom note body — e.g. auto-add a “> [!source]” callout linking back to the original 📤 SAVE & SEND, YOUR WAY • One-click save to your Markdown notes app through a local app link — honoring your chosen vault/folder • Send to the note, wiki, and read-later services you use, with your own account and tokens • Copy as Markdown, HTML, rich text (keeps formatting when you paste into a word processor or docs editor), or plain text • Download as .md, .html, .doc, .txt — or Save as PDF via print 🗂 YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY • Every clip is saved to a private, on-device history • Instant search and filter by title, site, or type • Preview and edit the Markdown right in the browser • Export your whole library as a ZIP of .md files — perfect for a searchable knowledge base or a fresh vault ⚡ FAST BY DESIGN • Right-click menu: clip page / selection / an element • Keyboard shortcuts for page, selection, and the element picker • Element picker: hover to highlight a block, click to clip it • Highlight collector: select passages as you read, export them as one note • Batch clip: grab several open tabs into one folder at once • File name & folder templates ({{date}}/{{site}}/{{title}}) for a tidy library 🔒 PRIVATE & LOCAL-FIRST • All clipping runs in your browser — nothing is sent to our servers (we don’t have any) • No account, no tracking, no ads, no analytics • Your notes and settings stay on your device; sending to an external service uses your own credentials and only happens when you click send • Open, portable Markdown you own forever 💡 PERFECT FOR • Building a personal knowledge base or a “second brain” • Researchers and students saving papers, docs and lectures • Writers and developers keeping a clean, searchable reference library • Anyone who wants “read it later” that actually saves clean, portable Markdown Pocketdown — clip the web to Markdown, and keep it.