Markdown

Most of what I save ends up in markdown. ChatGPT renders it, Claude renders it, Obsidian uses it as native storage, every dev tool worth using speaks it. So when I'm clipping something from the web, the right end state is markdown. Clean, structured, portable, easy to feed back to an AI later.

These posts cover the markdown workflows I keep using. When markdown beats PDF or HTML for what I'm trying to do. How to clip a webpage and end up with text I can search across years. What changes when my reading library is a folder of .md files instead of a bookmark dump. And the small things that decide whether saved pages survive the next tool I switch to (frontmatter, heading levels, how images are handled).

If you've copied a Twitter thread into a doc and watched the formatting collapse, or tried to feed a saved article to Claude and got back nonsense because the original was 80% navigation chrome, the answer is the same in both cases: convert to markdown at clip time, not later. The few seconds it costs at save time saves an hour every time you want to revisit the content.