ZaoNest Web Clipper

ZaoNest Web Clipper is a local-first side panel extension for saving articles, tutorials, references, and research pages into a searchable Markdown library.

ZaoNest reads the current page only after your action. You can extract the page locally, adjust the title and Markdown, then save it to the built-in local library, export it as a Markdown file, or send it to an external knowledge-base API that you configure yourself. AI is optional: page content is sent to your configured AI endpoint only when you click the AI button.

Key features:

• Extract readable page content locally and convert it to Markdown.
• Pick a specific page block when automatic extraction is not accurate enough.
• Save block-picking rules and reuse them on similar pages from the same site.
• Search, preview, back up, restore, and export saved pages in the local library.
• Export Markdown files for Obsidian, SiYuan, Logseq, or other note-taking tools.
• Built-in SiYuan API adapter, with room for more save targets later.
• Optional OpenAI Chat Completions compatible AI summaries and dense extracts.
• Supports full AI endpoint URLs.
• Bilingual interface with a structure ready for more languages.

Privacy and safety:

• No background crawling.
• No cookie access.
• No browsing history collection.
• No remote scripts or remotely executed code.
• API keys, tokens, prompts, and settings stay in local browser extension storage.
• Page content is processed locally by default. It is sent only when you explicitly trigger AI processing or save to an external service you configured.

Good for:

• Turning long articles into Markdown notes.
• Building a personal local web archive.
• Saving tutorials, discussions, tool lists, and research pages.
• Generating AI summaries for important pages.
• Sending selected web content to SiYuan or another knowledge base.