MD-Note

MD-Note is a simple browser extension that allows users to save selected text from any page as a markdown or plain text file.

Support

Browser Support

This extension is using a File System Access API to create and save files to a selected directory. This API is fairly recent and is not supported in all modern browsers.

According to MDN it is supported in Chrome, Edge, Opera and Safari (partially).

Saving Text From PDF

MD-Note has limited support for copying text from PDF files due to BUG 1219825, which makes it work only for files hosted online and viewed through default Chrome PDF plugin (Example: PDF Harry Potter Script)

Usage

1. Select text on any web page
2. Press Alt + S (The shortcut can be modified through chrome://extensions/shortcuts/)
3. Edit your note
   • MD-Note comes with a few handy shortcuts to add rich text capabilities
     • Ctrl + B : Adds ** around selected text in the popup
     • Ctrl + I : Adds * around selected text in the popup
     • Ctrl + ` : Adds ` around selected text in the popup
     • Ctrl + [ : Converts selected text into a link [selection](selection)
4. Press Save to show a save file picker and select a directory with the new file name