Documentation
How the extension captures pages, turns them into Markdown, and routes clips into your local vault or connected cloud workspace.
Getting Started
Omnivy is a browser-first knowledge capture tool. The extension reads the active page, extracts structured Markdown, lets you edit save fields in the popup, and then routes the clip to the destination you choose.
1. Installation
- Go to the Install Page and click "Add to Chrome".
- Pin the extension to your browser toolbar.
- Open the extension options to add your local Obsidian vault name and adjust capture behavior.
2. Cloud Setup (Optional)
- Local Obsidian clipping works without a web account.
- To save to Notion, Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox, sign in on the sign-in page.
- Use Settings → Integrations to connect providers and let the extension load available folders or Notion destinations.
3. Clip From the Popup
- Click the extension on a supported page. Chrome system pages, extension pages, devtools pages, and similar restricted pages cannot be clipped.
- Review or edit title, source, author, tags, and custom properties before saving.
- Pick Obsidian, Notion, Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox as the target. Background auto-save can close the popup after saving when enabled in behavior settings.
Intelligent Content Extraction
When you clip a webpage, Omnivy runs a knowledge extraction pipeline. It detects the site, chooses a matching parser when one exists, falls back to a generic article/doc extractor, and sends clean Markdown plus title, author, tags, source, and useful links back to the popup.
- Articles, blogs, docs, and reading pages: Finds the strongest content root, removes page chrome, keeps headings, lists, quotes, tables, code blocks, images, tags, links, and source metadata.
- GitHub files: Detects /blob/ and /raw/ URLs, extracts source lines from the current GitHub file viewer, and saves the file in a fenced code block with the right language hint when possible.
- GitHub issues and pull requests: Routes /issues/ and /pull/ pages to a thread extractor so the original issue and comments are saved as discussion notes instead of raw page clutter.
- Stack Overflow and forums: Preserves the question, answers, accepted-answer signal, votes, and forum-style post bodies in readable Markdown.
- AI chats, video pages, and public Notion pages: Uses lightweight DOM extraction for chat messages, transcript-like areas, metadata, and Notion-style blocks when those elements are present on the page.
2. Extract structured content or use a generic fallback
3. Build Markdown with source metadata and useful links
4. Let you edit fields and custom properties in the popup
5. Save to Obsidian locally or sync through a connected provider
Supported Platforms
Creates a Markdown note through obsidian://new using your configured vault name. No web account is required for this local target.
Saves the clip through your connected Notion workspace. The extension can load available destinations and send title, source URL, tags, and Markdown content.
Uploads a .md clipping to a selected Google Drive folder, with an Omnivy Web Clips fallback when no folder is selected.
Uploads a .md clipping through Microsoft Graph, using the selected folder when available and an Omnivy Web Clips fallback path otherwise.
Uploads a .md clipping to the selected Dropbox folder path, or to the Omnivy Web Clips folder if no destination is available.