Obsidian Web Clipper

Obsidian Web Clipper is the official clipper for the Obsidian note-taking app, and the best free choice if you already use Obsidian. It saves plain Markdown files on your own disk, so nothing depends on a vendor staying in business.

A clipped page becomes a Markdown file in your vault, with the title, URL, date and any tags you set. You can highlight text first and save only the highlights. The key feature is templates: rules that choose the folder, name the file, pull the author or published date into properties and trim the page with filters. The Chromium build also has a side panel.

It is built in the open under an MIT licence, and the Chrome listing says the developer collects no data. It does ask for access to every site, which a clipper needs in order to read the page. The limit is the app. A clipped page lands as a file, not in a read and unread queue, so it works better as a research library than as a Pocket replacement. Pair it with a reader if you want a queue.