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bharani_m | 5 years ago

I am also a big fan of Print to PDF. I've actually built a simple bookmarking service [0] that does just this.

EmailThis extracts meaningful content from web pages and sends it to your email inbox. You can also tell it to save a PDF copy of each page, in which case the PDF is sent as an attachment.

Print-to-Pdf is done using Headless Chrome (so it works exactly like doing a Ctrl-P).

I find that the Print to PDF works best because it gives you a copy of the web page even if the original one disappears. Also, none of the content extraction services (mine included) work in 100% of the cases. Sometimes, they might incorrectly remove images and other meaningful content. So in such cases, having a full PDF snapshot is quite handy.

Let me know what you guys think.

[0] https://www.emailthis.me

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fit2rule|5 years ago

Nice way to find out what everyone is reading while gathering addresses of smart people. ;)

> Sometimes, they might incorrectly remove images and other meaningful content. So in such cases, having a full PDF snapshot is quite handy.

Also interesting is that the context is preserved locally across visits to the site - over 10 years, I have gathered a pretty interesting view of some of the various A/B changes that have gone on, on my favourite 'daily visit' sites ..

And, it is often very revealing of my own habits. This highlights the privacy-factor of having a local-file based bookmark/ontology system a little more in my favour.