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Save web pages directly from your browser with a single click or keyboard shortcut.

Screen with browsers on Desktop: Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera-Browser and Brave

What It Does

Browser Clips captures the content of any web page and adds it to your pinakea timeline. pinakea keeps a full Markdown capture so authored page content is not lost, then summarizes it and makes it searchable — all without leaving your browser.

Set scope

Browser Clips are saved into your currently selected Set. If you use multiple Sets, switch Sets first so the clip lands in the right library. See Sets (Libraries).

Supported Browsers

  • Chromium browsers (supported):
    • Google Chrome (Stable, Beta, Dev, Canary)
    • Chromium
    • Ungoogled Chromium
    • Brave (Stable, Beta, Nightly)
    • Microsoft Edge (Stable, Beta, Dev, Canary)
    • BrowserOS
    • Opera (Stable, Beta, Developer, GX)
    • Vivaldi (Stable, Snapshot)
    • Arc
    • Dia
    • Comet
    • ChatGPT Atlas
    • Avast Secure Browser
    • Epic Privacy Browser
    • Yandex Browser
    • NAVER Whale
    • Sidekick
    • Wavebox
    • Iridium Browser
    • Thorium
  • Safari

Both use the same underlying system. Clips from any browser appear in a single unified “Browser Clips” source.

In the Original pane, HTML-derived items can switch between Full and Clean with a two-segment control. Full shows the stored capture. Clean uses AI to hide obvious navigation, ads, cookie banners, and other page chrome without changing the saved item. The same Full | Clean control is also available for HTML files imported from folders.

Key Features

YouTube Transcripts

When you save a YouTube video, pinakea automatically fetches and stores the transcript. This means you can search for spoken content and get AI summaries of videos — not just the title and description.

YouTube summaries and chat

pinakea captures the transcript as the clip’s content (with timestamps). In Online Mode, automatic item summaries and chat use OpenRouter. In Mixed Mode, automatic item summary generation can run locally. Chat and full item summary generation still require an OpenRouter API key.

Smart Deduplication

Saving the same page twice updates the existing item rather than creating a duplicate. pinakea uses canonical URLs to identify pages, so minor URL variations don’t create clutter.

Offline Capture

If pinakea isn’t running when you save a page, the clip is queued. Next time you open pinakea, all queued clips are imported automatically.

Export and Import

Browser Clips can be exported to Markdown files (with frontmatter) and imported on another machine. This makes it easy to transfer your saved pages or back them up.

Export/import lives in Settings → Maintenance → Browser Clips.

Setup

Chrome / Chromium Browsers

The Chrome extension ships with pinakea and is set up from inside the app.

  1. Go to Settings → Sources
  2. In Add Sources, click Chrome Connector
  3. Review the detected supported Chrome-family browsers and click Install Connector
  4. The app copies chrome://extensions to the clipboard and keeps a floating setup panel open
  5. Paste chrome://extensions in your browser, enable Developer Mode, then drag the folder chip from the panel onto the extensions page
  6. If dragging is not accepted, click Reveal Folder and choose that folder with Load Unpacked
  7. If clips do not arrive, return to Settings → Sources and click Chrome Connector again to refresh connector setup

pinakea installs the connector helper for all detected supported Chrome-family browsers. This grants no browser access by itself; it only lets the manually loaded extension connect. When pinakea updates, it refreshes the staged extension folder automatically after startup. Your browser picks up the refreshed extension after you reload the extension or restart the browser. If you install a new Chromium browser later, click Chrome Connector again so pinakea can add that browser’s native messaging connector.

Safari

  1. Go to Settings → Sources
  2. In Add Sources, click Safari Extension
  3. Safari’s Extensions settings open automatically
  4. Enable pinakea Clipper
  5. Grant site access when prompted

pinakea shows Safari Extension status as Enabled, Not enabled yet, or Status unavailable when Safari cannot report the state yet.

Usage

  • Click the pinakea Clipper icon in your browser toolbar
  • Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+B on Mac, using the physical Control key (not Command)
  • Right-click on a page and choose “Save to pinakea”

A small toast notification confirms the save. When the browser toolbar icon is visible, its badge also shows progress and a green checkmark for a successful save.