Save to Yaps

About

Save anything you read on the web into Yaps, the calm, private notes app for
Mac and Windows. One click on the toolbar turns the page you are reading into a
clean, clutter-free note in your vault. No accounts to wire up, no servers in
the middle, and nothing leaving your computer.

If you have ever emailed yourself a link, dropped twenty tabs into a "read
later" pile you never open again, or lost a great article the moment you closed
it, this is the fix. Save it once, find it forever, right next to your own
notes.

WHAT YOU CAN SAVE

• Articles, saved as clean reading notes with the menus, banners, popups, and
  clutter stripped away, so you keep the words and lose the noise
• Any web page, saved as a tidy bookmark with its title, link, and preview image
• Images, saved straight to your vault by hovering over them, the same easy way
  a pinboard works
• Anything behind a right click, with "Save page to Yaps" and "Save image to
  Yaps" added to your context menu

HOW IT FEELS TO USE

• One click. Open the toolbar button and press save. That is the whole flow.
• Hover to save images. Move your mouse over any reasonably large image and a
  small "Save to Yaps" button appears in the corner. Click it and the picture is
  in your vault.
• Tag as you go. Add comma separated tags before you save, or let Yaps file it
  automatically.
• Choose the shape. Let it pick Article or Bookmark for you, or set it yourself
  when you want control.
• Land somewhere useful. Everything arrives in your vault's Resources folder,
  already searchable, taggable, and ready to link to your other notes.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

Most "save it for later" tools quietly ship your reading habits to a company
server. This one does not. The extension only ever talks to the Yaps app
running on your own Mac, over a local connection (127.0.0.1). Nothing is sent
to a remote server. Nothing is collected, profiled, tracked, or sold. Your
reading list, your research, and your saved images stay on your machine, full
stop. It even works with your Wi-Fi off.

BUILT FOR THE WAY YOU ACTUALLY WORK

• Researchers and writers, building a body of sources you can search and cite
  later instead of a graveyard of open tabs
• Students, collecting readings, references, and figures in one place for an
  essay or a thesis
• Designers and curators, saving images and inspiration the fast, hover-to-save
  way
• Anyone building a second brain or personal knowledge base who wants the web
  to flow into their notes, not into yet another silo

WHY YAPS

Yaps keeps your notes as plain, portable files on your own computer, so you are
never locked in and your library is genuinely yours. What you clip from the web
lives beside your own writing, your dictated thoughts, and your daily notes, all
in one calm, fast, private place. Capture a great article today, search for it
in seconds next month, and link it to the project it belongs to.

GETTING STARTED

You need the free Yaps app for Mac or Windows. It takes about a minute.

1. Download Yaps at https://yaps.ai/download and open it.
2. In Yaps, open Settings, choose Connected apps, and click Pair.
3. Click this extension's icon, then click Connect. That is it, no code to
   type. From then on, saving is one click.

If you would rather use a code, the extension also accepts the short pairing
code shown in Settings.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Do I need the Yaps app?
Yes. This extension is the browser half of Yaps. It saves what you find on the
web into the Yaps desktop app, which is where your notes live. You can download
it free at https://yaps.ai/download. If the app is not installed, the extension
will simply offer you the download link.

Is my data sent anywhere?
No. The extension talks only to the Yaps app on your own computer over a local
connection. Nothing is uploaded, shared, or tracked.

What exactly gets saved when I save a page?
The page title, its web address, a preview image when one is available, and, for
articles, the cleaned-up reading text with the clutter removed. You can add your
own tags too.

Where do my saves go?
Into your Yaps vault, in a folder called Resources. From there they are
searchable, taggable, and linkable like any other note.

Does it slow down my browsing?
No. The extension sits quietly and does nothing until you ask it to save. The
hover-to-save button only appears when your mouse is over a large image.

Which browsers are supported?
Chrome and other Chromium based browsers such as Microsoft Edge, Brave, and
Arc. You will need the Yaps app for Mac or Windows.

Save the web the calm way. Get Yaps free at https://yaps.ai/download, then add
this extension and start clipping in one click.