Web Clipper

The Web Clipper saves web pages from Safari — or any browser — directly into your Atlas projects. Unlike the Share Extension, which performs a quick add of content as-is, the Web Clipper extracts and structures the page content before you save anything: you review the title, body, images, metadata, and tags in a full editing sheet, then save once everything looks right.

The Web Clipper is available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Enabling the Web Clipper

The Web Clipper is a system extension that must be enabled once before it appears in the share menu.

Note

If you don't see Atlas in the Share menu when browsing, follow these steps to enable the Web Clipper.

On iPhone and iPad:

In Safari (or any app's share sheet), tap the Share button
Scroll horizontally in the app row and tap More (the three-dot icon)
If Atlas is not listed, tap Edit Actions and toggle Atlas on
You can also tap the plus to Add to Favorites so Atlas appears prominently at the top of the share sheet without needing to tap More each time

On Mac:

Open System Settings
Navigate to Privacy & Security → Extensions
Under Share Menu, check the box next to Atlas

Once enabled, the Web Clipper persists across app updates — you won't need to re-enable it.

The Clip Sheet

When you invoke the Web Clipper, a JavaScript preprocessor captures the page content before the clip sheet appears. By the time you see the sheet, the content is already extracted and ready to review. Every field is editable before you save.

Field	Description
Title	Pre-filled from the page title; becomes the document title in Atlas
Project	The project that receives the clipped document
Destination	Where inside the project the clip lands — Inbox or a specific folder or document
Clip Template	The active template; switching templates re-processes the page content
Synopsis	Auto-populated from the page's content; saved to the document synopsis field
Metadata fields	Defined by the active Clip Template and prefilled values from content extracted from the page
Tags	Suggested tags appear, existing project tags are suggested as you type, and new tags can be added freely
Body	The extracted page content as editable Markdown

Additionally, some options may appear depending on specific configurations.

Field	Description
Add to Existing Document	Visible when the location is a text document, allowing content to be appended to the selected document
Create Canvas Card	Visible when the location is a canvas document and when enabled, automatically creates a card on the parent canvas
Save original page	Always available: When on, saves the source URL as a child web page document nested under the clip

Tabs: Details, Content, Images

Editing the markdown capture in the content tab

The clip sheet is organized into three tabs:

Details — All the fields listed above
Content — A live rendered preview of the extracted body; also editable as Markdown
Images — A gallery of every image detected on the page, with per-image controls

Image Controls

The Images tab gives you control over every image found on the page before anything is downloaded. Each image card shows a thumbnail preview and editable alt text, and lets you choose one of three actions:

Action	What happens
Save	The image is downloaded at save time and stored as a child media document; the reference in the body is rewritten to the local path, making it available offline
Link	The remote URL is kept in the body as-is; no download occurs; if the original URL goes away, the image goes with it
Remove	The image is stripped from the body entirely

The default action for all images is set by the active Clip Template. You can override individual images before saving.

What Gets Saved

When you tap or click Save, Atlas creates:

A text document at the chosen destination with the edited title, body, and synopsis
A child media document for each image set to Save — nested under the clip document
A child web page document if "Save original page" is turned on — points to the source URL for reference
Metadata values for each field defined by the active template — visible in the Inspector
Tags on the document, created in the project if they don't exist yet

Clip Templates

Clip Templates control what fields appear in the clip sheet and how the page content is formatted into the body. Atlas includes several bundled templates:

Template	Activates on
Default	Any page — always the fallback when nothing else matches
Recipe	Pages with Schema.org Recipe data
Book	Pages with Schema.org Book data
YouTube	`youtube.com` URLs
GitHub	`github.com` URLs
Wikipedia	`wikipedia.org` URLs
Product	Pages with Schema.org Product data
Social Post	Pages with social media schema data

When you clip a page, Atlas checks it against all template triggers — your custom templates first, then bundled ones — and uses the first match. If nothing matches, Default is used.

Switching templates in the clip sheet re-processes the page using the new template, updating the body, metadata fields, and synopsis.

Managing Templates

Templates are managed in Settings → Clip Templates on any device. Available actions:

New — Creates a new blank user template starting from the Default template
Duplicate — Copies any template (including bundled ones); the only way to customize a bundled template
Export — Saves the template as a .atlasclip.json file via the system share sheet
Import — Loads a .atlasclip.json file from Files
Delete — Removes a user template (bundled templates cannot be deleted)

User templates sync across your devices via iCloud. Atlas uses the .atlasclip.json format, which is fully compatible with Obsidian Web Clipper — you can import Obsidian templates into Atlas and export Atlas templates for use in Obsidian.

A Note on Large Pages

The Web Clipper is designed to handle a wide variety of web pages and degrades gracefully when a page is complex or unusual. On older iOS devices, very large pages — exceptionally long articles or content-heavy sites — may produce less complete extractions due to memory constraints. If this happens, consider using the Save original page toggle to keep the source URL for reference, or use the Share Extension to save the URL as a web page document directly.