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Saving articles

Every saved article lands in your library as clean, readable Markdown. There are two ways to save.

From the web app​

On the library page, paste any article URL into the save form and submit. Broadsheet fetches the page, parses the content, strips the clutter, and adds it to your library.

Duplicate URLs are detected automatically — saving the same article twice won't create a second entry.

From the Chrome extension​

The fastest way to save is the Chrome extension:

  • Click the Broadsheet icon in your toolbar, or
  • Press ⌘⇧S on macOS / Ctrl+Shift+S on Windows/Linux.

The current tab is sent to your library instantly. No copy-paste, no context switch.

Tags & organisation​

Add tags to articles to group them by topic, project, or anything else. The library can be filtered by:

  • Tag
  • Source (the domain the article came from)
  • Read / unread / archived status

What Broadsheet extracts​

Broadsheet uses Mozilla's Readability parser to pull the main article content out of a page, then converts it to Markdown. You get:

  • The article title and byline
  • Clean body text and inline images
  • Estimated read time
  • The canonical URL (with tracking params stripped)

Paywalls, login-gated pages, and pages that aren't article-shaped may not extract cleanly. When that happens, Broadsheet tells you why.