Your Second Brain NEEDS This Tool - Save to Notion

[@Rollsey08]

I am a PhD student and have been looking for a good way to organise and save research articles and highlights in a simple way with minimal hassle. This is a super helpful video!

[@Rollsey08]

@@quatsch6910 True. I use citation manager but it would be great to have something that can be more integrated with notion for other benefits such as more in depth notes on each article and pulling out highlights. I also like being able to use linked databases and tables to add different tags and be able to reorganise everything depending on my needs at the time. I know zotero offers some of these features but feel there is more that can be done in notion and it's pretty cool to see the different features notion offers that are helpful.

[@pierrebitcan]

BEWARE of data security gaps and lack of archiving / backup. You can very easily use all your work if you don't back it up to your hard drive or other cloud. Look into it. You need a back up plan or may get a surprise one day. Security experts say don't use Notion for anything you don't want to lose - financial, health and work info, for example.

[@JonnyMatthew]

An absolute beaut this one, Thomas. THANKS so much for posting it! I've been using the Notion official web-clipper for a while, but this one is so much more versatile. The fact that it allows clips to be targeted to specific areas/resources in Notion allows for really easy research records - thanks again! Cheers, Jonny. 👍🏻👊🏻

[@ttone2330]

My Save to notion was hidden also. Thanks for taking that extra step and showing how to unhide it.

[@ktkthakre]

Awesome video (high fiving with a Llama) !! A quick tip though: If you think some pages should go with 'all the content' and some pages with only highlights, you can make 2 froms for same place with 'all the content' ticked ☑ in one and not ticked in the other and give it name like 'Notes Inbox [with content]' & 'Notes Inbox' respectively!

[@sofiamalmcom]

Thank you for this video! Epic! I use the shortcut keys which you can set on your chrome extensions for both saving to Notion and clipping your highlights to your desired destination. The highlight shortcut also works globally. By the way, for a second brain set up I also recommend the chrome extension "Notion search assistant" because you cannot search directly into Notion through your omnibox, but you can do that through this extension to create a friction free search experience in Notion from your browser. Thanks again for creating Notion videos! I have ADHD and this kinds of setups helps me so much! Also thank you for introducing Notion to me.

[@enoch7682]

How do I add shortcuts to my chrome extension?

[@enoch7682]

NVM I KZbind it. This is an amazing find! Thank you very much! What use cases have you found valuable for the global function?

[@soloreader2740]

I was literally Searching for something to save my highlights, Thanks Man ❤️

[@tonymatthews6928]

Great video Tom. Been using Save to Notion for a while but did not know about the save highlights feature. Great stuff! Thanks.

[@allsmiles3281]

Just have to say THANK YOU. Just purchased the ultimate brain.

[@bradhawkins8809]

Great video. Thank you. The Template Option now works correctly!!!

[@VilsPils]

this is gold, thank you Thomas!

[@babalkp]

Wonderful explanation Thomas, that’s awesome 👏

[@LincolnOlson]

Another great tutorial. Thanks Thomas!

[@ColtonMorrisOK]

I love this!! Just finished setting it up! If I wanted to add a section for "Accounts" under the "Work" area how would I go about doing that? I want to be able to see the accounts I work with, and the tasks/notes associated with those accounts. How could I add a "Contacts" database for just the "work accounts"?

[@justinwr092]

Great video. How do you capture clippings from your phone browser? I can only get this method to work on the PC.

[@petera1033]

Thank you for this .

[@carolinetarginodomingo3216]

Just a suggestion to the community, I didn't understand why you named as Sub Seed haha For me would make more sense to name it "Main Task?" and "Main Task Name". But your channel rocks man!!

[@illiakushnir]

Hi, I have problem with ext. My save to notion doesn't work correctly, it adds highlights like another note, not like content of this page clip

[@jamesjustanothergakoiguy1692]

I ran into the same problem when I first selected the wrong page and then changed it. It would only send to the original page selected. Fix was to delete the form and start over, now it works.

[@positivitygenerator]

Hey Tom, when can we expect some videos on the main channel, been waiting for a bit!

[@criticalmass500]

Glasp also is very helpful

[@rohankethavath346]

Thank you for the video!!!

[@srishtimsr]

Great video thomas! Quick question - how is it different from the Notion Web Clipper? Is the highlight feature the only difference?

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

It's a lot more capable - you can do individual highlights, but it also lets you set up multiple "forms" that have different destination databases, settings, etc. Also, not mentioned in the video - there's an experimental feature you can turn on that can scrape specific CSS classes, such as "author". It's advanced, so I didn't cover it here - but it's quite powerful. I cover all the differences at 10:10 🙂

[@Farinata2]

Is there a way to save/sync/export PDF highlights to Notion?

[@senisneru]

Your videos always are fantastic!!!!! Does it work on edge?

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

It does! That's what I use.

[@senisneru]

@@ThomasFrankExplains thanks!!! After reinstall and install again, it's finally works!!!!!! Thank you for your videos!!!

[@chaohao4252]

❤nice work! Do you ever use Snipo to capture videos notes and make it default into the database created by your own?

[@philyu4043]

It seems adding a highlight feature doesn't work anymore... When I try to do that, It makes separated page

[@user-jpkarl]

Thank you Thomas! May I ask why i cannot find area in adding the field? (the marketing one)

[@jameszhan7082]

Thank you, Thomas, for this Video! I notice that the highlight feature for Save to Notion is disabled for articles that require Login information. Is there a way to enable that highlight features for say Skillshare resources?

[@NaveenKumar-vj9sc]

Thank you very much for this video. I have one question regarding highlight. After saving the page to "Note Inbox" if i highlight a information then it automatically saves to that page, which is cool but, how do i bring all those highlighted information to one page? For example if i am researching on a topic where i want to highlight several pages but i want all the highlights to be in one page to look like a report. How would i do that? Would be great if i can do this. Thanks you for reading.

[@tstudios5333]

Hey Thomas, why are you not creating videos on your main channel :)

[@michaelcole5371]

Since readwise reader came out I can't seem to find the way to sync readwise to notion. Have you overcome this challenge yet?

[@weihyac]

thanks homie

[@Bracalea]

This tool no longer seems to work ... has anyone found a fix for the latest version?

[@19demian]

question: at 8:42 his clip went directly to "Web Clips', when I tried mine it just went directly to the bottom of the page and not under Web Clips. Anyone knows how?

[@ballflake]

Oh Thomas, please comeback to your main channel and make general personal growth and development.

[@allisonpiazza2317]

Is there anything that can save pdfs (academic journal articles, etc.) to Notion, similar to citation management software (like Zotero, EndNote, etc.)?

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

This should work to save a link to where the PDF is hosted already, but I don't believe the Notion API currently allows for directly uploading the PDF and saving it in your Notion workspace itself. If they add that feature, I'll definitely make content about it!

[@geoffgodofbiscuits]

@@ThomasFrankExplains I've been trying to use the highlight feature with an online PDF from NASA, but it keeps throwing an error that no Notion page can be found even though I have already clipped the full page using the pop-up. Trying to determine whether the fact that this is an online pdf vs. a website is causing the error. If there is a workaround or if this might be an additional limitation of the clipper. www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/iss_benefits_for_humanity_2022_book.pdf Regular web text is working fine.

[@rojo.guerra]

@@geoffgodofbiscuits hi did you find a solution?

[@RyanHagen-xr4qx]

Thank you for the insights! Do you have any tips on how to search in notion properly? For example, if I clip a full article and try to search for specific text in it, it often doesn't work. This seems like a major drawback and I'm wondering if there's a workaround I should know about so I can find everything I need to in the second brain I'm building!

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Search should find anything clipped into a page, so it may just be an issue of indexing speed if you're searching right after clipping.

[@Jing3]

Hi， I'm the user of ULTIMATE BRAIN. How do I add save to notion on Safari, thanks.

[@asmaashraf5734]

is there anyway to get a basic second brain tutorial...the ones ive seen are way too advanced for my liking

[@vitezslav-jaros]

Firefox extension exists too

[@romainjacob288]

Is there a sort of "save to Notion" equivalent for Android?

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Right now, not really - you can use the default saving action Notion creates, or you can use Readwise (though that costs money). Perhaps in the future :)

[@romainjacob288]

@@ThomasFrankExplains yeah, I knew about those two, hoping there was an alternative I missed. Well well, maybe one day :-)

[@luisbarbosa5597]

thanks u monsterr

[@EduardoFitCode]

Save to page works great, I'm working on a Mac and Chrome as web browser, "Add highlight" does not work, and i suppose it changed the way it used to work, in my case every time y highlight any text a popup shows asking me to select the destination, if i select my database the selected text is not showed and just an "undefined" text shows, if I select a page not a data base it only shows a bullet list that is empty. So is not useful for me.

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

I'm not sure how well-maintained this app is now. My team and I are preparing to launch our own capture tool with a lot more features: flylighter.com/

[@giulioroscigno8586]

Hi Thomas, how can i link my Notion to Hypothesis? I have no clue... Thank you!

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Only through Readwise currently. Keep your eyes peeled though; my team and I are working on something in this space :)

[@althafrowan7243]

You're fantastic

[@ToHo-g5o]

Seems like this extension doesn't works. The higlights are saved as new pages ;/ What do you use instead of this one?

[@masoumehmotamedi9459]

hi, this was great, i have a question: can you use tags in paragraphs? i make a lot of notes that each paragraph might refer to 3 categories for my project and i need to find them fasts. but # doesnt work in notion. any solutions?

[@misabear1990]

I add this extension to Chrome, but it can't find any of my databases except some Blog databases in the Blog Template which I duplicate from another. I only use one personal plan free account, I've tried logging out and logging in, but it still can't load the database. Does anyone know to fix this issue? plz, help me out. Thank you.

[@misabear1990]

oh, I found a way that works for me, I move all my content to a whole new page, and Save to Notion finally loaded my database.

[@Farinata2]

Did you find a way to import PDF highlights to Notion?

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Currently I think Readwise is the best (possibly only) way to do that!

[@AbdelrahmanAnany]

Waiting for Todoist to Notion two way sync Integration

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Pretty sure you can already do that! I already do one-way sync from Todoist to Notion, which lets me gets tasks into Notion via Siri voice commands. I use Make.com to run it. I haven't made a tutorial on it yet (soon), but here's another video that shows me connecting Notion to Make: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXm5hX2NfqdlhNE

[@arpitkumartomar]

Hey Thomas, I am facing a issue with this extentsion. I am unable to see any databases in my main notion account while I can in the others which I do not use that often. Please suggest a solution. PS: I tried login in other accounts, and now it's working for none of them.

[@pierrebitcan]

Every time I try to clip something, it tells me I have to be on the internet, when I am ON THE INTERNET using my browers. Help menus are not helpful. Notion is very confusing and not intuitive at all. It seems way too complex for the daily tasks I can do in Evernote with 1-2 clicks. Notion gives me anxiety LOL

[@WeiseGuy91]

It's been a year, does the template feature work yet?

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

I'm not sure, but I also haven't checked in a while.

[@hoyuenhungjacky]

How can we clip like Save to Notion on iOS?

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Right now, you have to do it through the stock Notion option that comes up when you click the share button on a page.

[@m.rizkiaiman6242]

Installed it but I get "Save To Notion cannot be used on the Chrome Store or your local filesystem, please try on a different page" error. Anyone can help?

[@rjwillshear]

That's because you are trying to use it on the chrome store after installing it. Try it on any other web page and it should work

[@m.rizkiaiman6242]

@@rjwillshear That's dumb of me lol, thanks a lot 🙌

[@adrianozzz]

sadly there are not any webclipper as good as evernote's

[@VilsPils]

does this work for android?

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Unfortunately no; this is only a desktop browser extension. You'll still need to use the native Notion sharing feature for mobile platforms (for now).

[@anushiyaperiyannan3831]

Save to notion not able to use in iPhone? Why?

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

The developer only made a Chrome extension - no other apps!

[@jensassmann3776]

@@ThomasFrankExplains What a pity! Would love to kick-out Pocket App of my workflow. But not possible when this does not work on iPhone and iPad…

[@rediffusion7996]

@@ThomasFrankExplains And for Firefox too

[@JoeWDye]

all the notion webclipers feel bad compared to the evernote one.

[@phinsxiii]

Any mobile solutions?

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Right now, it's either Readwise or Notion's official share/capture button - neither of which are as powerful. But keep your eyes peeled; I'm working on some stuff behind the scenes 😉

[@TM-tw1py]

I find this extension does not work in real practice - there are various problems when you try to implement.

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

We're working on our own web clipper now, partly for this reason: flylighter.com/

[@markwilkins9048]

Sounds like a pretty nice extension, too bad it's only available for Chrome.

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Edge too! I prefer Edge over other browsers these days. But yes, would be nice to see this on other browsers.

[@JohnDoe-vu8ji]

There are extensions allowing you to install chrome add-ons on other browsers.

[@markwilkins9048]

@@JohnDoe-vu8ji Thanks. Are you aware of an extension that will provide for installing this add-on to another browser?

[@eyeofthetiger7]

@@ThomasFrankExplains I switched to Edge as well. Vertical tabs and efficiency mode! Also, it has better web app support, which I use a lot.

[@tea_and_music]

It's also available for Firefox and works pretty well there too.