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Saving webpages to notion.so on an iPhone

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.

  1. 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
  2. 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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