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26 August 2018

Web Clipping And Reading Latter

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So I've pretty much switched to a Chromebook for the majority of my daily tasks. That said I still use a Window's 10 desktop, laptop, android phone, and an iPad Mini. One of the tasks that drives me nuts is web clipping articles or sections of articles across all these platforms.
In the end I switched to using OneNote web clipper for almost all articles and some read later single page items. It does not have integration with the new Chromebook stylus note taking app. Therefore, you can't specify it as a default. However, its functions are almost the same so it's not a deal breaker. 
While I didn't test EverNote, and my understanding is that it has similar functionality to OneNote, its main features are pay for use. All the ones I tested for my needs are "Free" for you to use.

How to install and use the OneNote web clipper can be read at the following link.
Getting Started with the OneNote Web Clipper

Google Keep

Advantages

    1. Available on all platforms as a PWA (progressive web application)
    2. Integrated into the Google ecosystem
    3. Will do images
    4. Selection of article text
    5. Link to original page.
    6. Offline use

Disadvantages

    1. Won't save the full page without some user intervention.
    2. Integrated into google ecosystem
    3. Poor usability in iOS
    4. Not a consistent method to operate across environments

OneNote

Advantages

    1. Available on all platforms as a PWA (progressive web application)
    2. Integrated into the Microsoft ecosystem
    3. Will do images
    4. Selection of article text
    5. Link to original page.
    6. Offline use
    7. Full Page as image or web page
    8. Many feature compared to the others
    9. Free 5GB storage for notes.

Disadvantages

    1. Integrated into Microsoft ecosystem
    2. Only available as a "send to" target in iOS
    3. Not a consistent method to operate across environments

iOS Read Later

Advantages

    1. Works very well on iOS
    2. Saves full page
    3. Offline use

Disadvantages

    1. Doesn't seem to have a save selection or image so you get the whole page.
    2. Not really cross platform
    3. Integrated into iOS ecosystem

Microsoft Edge Read Later

Advantages

    1. Works very well in Edge Browsers
    2. Offline use

Disadvantages

    1. Doesn't seem to have a save selection or image so you get the whole page.
    2. Integrated into Windows ecosystem so some cool features are only available there.
    3. Saves full page


Save To Google Drive add-on

Advantages

    1. Lets you save to your Drive storage the entire page as image or web archive
    2. Offline use
    3. Integrated into Google ecosystem.

Disadvantages

    1. Not made for saving a selection
    2. Not available as an add-on on iOS therefore it will only save the link if you send to Drive



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