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Web Pages

A Web Page Document

A web page document on iOS

Atlas can hold live web pages alongside your writing, so a source article, a reference doc, or a video sits in your project instead of in a browser tab you'll lose. A web page is a document like any other: it lives in the Organizer, and when you place one on a canvas it appears as a web card — the same document, shown in place. Either way it opens in the same built-in browser.

Creating a Web Page Document

Save a URL as a document in any of these ways:

  • Drag a link from your browser into the Organizer.
  • Paste a URL, or use the Share Extension from another app.
  • Turn on Save original page in the Web Clipper to keep the source URL beside a clipped article.

The page opens in a built-in browser you can scroll and interact with without leaving Atlas.

Browsing and Home Pages

Each web page document has a home, the URL it opens to. As you follow links, Atlas remembers where you were: reopen the document later in the same session and it returns you to the last page you were viewing rather than resetting to the start. This memory lasts for the session so relaunching Atlas returns the document to its home.

Once you've navigated away from the home page, two controls appear:

  • Pin Webpage Here sets the page you're currently viewing as the document's new home.
  • The return-to-home button (a curved back arrow) jumps you back to the saved home.

Changing the URL

You can repoint a web page document at any time:

  • Edit URL opens a field to change the address the document points to.
  • Copy Webpage URL copies the address of the page you're currently viewing.
  • Create New Webpage Document saves the page you're on as its own new document, leaving the original untouched.

On Mac these live in the browser's bottom bar; on iPhone and iPad they're on the bottom toolbar, behind the info and pin buttons. Where there's a menu bar, the Editor menu also has these options.

Web Cards on a Canvas

A web page document on the Canvas

A web page document on the Canvas

Drag a web page onto a canvas and it becomes a live web card that renders the real page, not just a preview. Select the card to scroll and interact with it; deselect it and the page goes inert so your drags pan the canvas instead. The card remembers its browsing location the same way a web page document does, and locking it freezes interaction entirely.

A web card's Options menu (the button) offers:

  • Open Document — open the web page in the full editor
  • Open in Modal — open the full browser in a window over the canvas (iPhone and iPad)
  • Open in Safari — open the current page in your browser
  • Copy Web Link — copy the URL the card is showing
  • Copy Card Link — copy a link back to the card itself

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