Saving from the web

Keep pages, quotes, links and pictures from anywhere on the web — in a repository kept just for them, filed without you doing anything.

Three ways to save

• The extension: the toolbar button or Alt+Shift+S, or right-click a selection, link or picture. Install it.
• On a phone: add ForkLeaf to your home screen from the browser menu, then use Share → ForkLeaf in any app.
• The bookmarklet: / → Copy the Save to ForkLeaf bookmarklet, make a bookmark, and paste it as the address. Press it on any page.

Each opens ForkLeaf’s save page, which shows exactly what will be saved and where. You can change the title. Nothing is written until you press Save, because anyone can put the save address in a link.

Where saves go

Signed in with GitHub, the first save creates a private repository called forkleaf-saves. Saves never go into your notebooks. Each is filed by kind, then year and month, with the date at the front of its name:

INDEX.md                 everything, newest first, by month and kind
index.json               the same list, for the app
pages/2026/09/2026-09-13-how-rivers-move.md
quotes/2026/09/2026-09-13-cities-are-for-people.md
links/2026/09/2026-09-12-a-good-reading-list.md
images/2026/09/2026-09-11-sunset-over-lisbon.md

• Every file has the address, the site, the kind and the date in its front matter, and reads well on github.com.
• Save the same page or link twice and ForkLeaf says when you saved it, with a choice to save it again. Quotes can always be saved again.
• Not signed in? The save page offers to sign in, or Keep it on this device instead, which puts it in the open notebook’s inbox/.

Everything you saved

/ → Show everything I saved shows your saves — from the repository and from inbox/ — as a grid: quotes as quotes, pictures as pictures, newest first. Filter by kind or search inside all of them. A card opens its file; Original opens the page it came from.