I use notion.so for a lot of things. It’s a great dumping ground for notes, links, lists and all sorts.
There is an excellent webclipper for your browser of choice, which can save the contents of a web page into notion as a note/page to read and refer to later.
But on a phone (or other iOS device), sharing a web page to notion only saves the URL, not the web content. And that’s disappointing.
I had tried to use Apple Shortcuts to get the contents of a web page and save it as a page in Notion, but i couldn’t get it working properly. Until I found Christian’s post “How to clip website content to Apple Notes on MacOS and iOS” which finally showed the way.
Using his screenshot as a guide, I successfully recreated the Shortcut. Success! Sharing a URL using the shortcut created a new page in notion filled with the web content.
Now I had a working version, I went back over my previous attempts and made some adjustments as I was having two issues.
- The new page in notion didn’t include the URL of the web page – it was important to me to know where the content came from
- The page content was messy, and included headers, navigation and other superfluous content which made it hard to read.
So I iterated the shortcut (and in the process found the Undo feature very useful).
- I used the Safari Reader action to get a simplified version of the web page, free of unnecessary clutter
- I used the URL of the web page as the title of may page in Notion, so i knew where the content came from
- I then used the Combine action to combine the Web page title with the URL into a single variable which i could use for the Notion page title
Get the shortcut for yourself
I’ve exported the shortcut as a Shortcut file which you should be able to import yourself.
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