The mobile "web clipper" hiding in plain sight
July 21 2025 | Issue 53 | Link to this issue | Subscribe
Hi Reader –
Picture this: You're scrolling through Instagram on your phone and find the perfect recipe for tonight's dinner.
What do you do?
If you're like most people, you probably screenshot it and hope you remember to scroll through 200+ photos in your camera roll later.
Or maybe you “Save” it to one of your Instagram collections, never to see it again.
There's a better way.
Your phone is already a capture powerhouse. You just need to point your captures to the right spot.
The Problem: Everything Gets Scattered
Think about the mobile capture process. You might:
Bookmark an article in Chrome
Take a screenshot of important info from a text
Save a post on LinkedIn
Photograph a receipt
And each app saves this information in a different place. Every time you use a different app, your information gets more fragmented.
Days later, when you want to find that seasonal peach salad recipe you saw the other day, you’re left wondering exactly where you saved it.
Was it Instagram? Or maybe it was a website? No, maybe it was inside the America's Test Kitchen app? Sigh… I’ll just make something else.
The Solution: One Universal Save Button
As I often teach, the key to efficiently finding what you save is to centralize your digital life in a spot that indexes everything.
For me and millions of people, that spot is Evernote.
But, how do you centralize it all to Evernote from your phone?
Evernote doesn’t have a web clipper for mobile.
But it does integrate with the mobile share button on both Android and iOS.
That little share icon that appears in mobile apps? It's your gateway to getting everything into Evernote:
Common share icons on mobile
Think of this as your universal "Save to Evernote" button that works from pretty much every app on your phone. It IS the mobile web clipper.
How It Works
Find something you want to keep in any app
Tap the Share button
Tap the Evernote app icon
Tap Save
Example of sharing to Evernote on iOS from the browser
It’s that simple. Assuming you have an active cellular or internet connection, a note with the content (or a link to the content, depending on the app you are sharing from) will appear in your Evernote account.
This works for:
Web pages from any browser
Screenshots from your camera roll
Text messages with important details
Social media posts
Photos you want to reference later
Articles inside your news app
Not seeing the Evernote app icon when you hit Share?
You may need to enable Evernote as a shareable app first. (Read this Help & Learning article from Evernote to learn how.)
Make It Even Easier on iOS (and some Androids)
Tired of scrolling through dozens of app options to find Evernote?
You can make it easier on iOS.
Add Evernote to your Share Favorites.
On iOS: Tap Share → scroll right → tap "More" → hit Edit → find Evernote → tap the "+" button. Drag it to the top of the list to ensure it appears first.
Now Evernote appears in your first row of share options. No scrolling required.
This tiny setup step saves you time every single time you want to capture something.
Some Android users will have a similar option. But, there's no standardized process for prioritizing Evernote on Android like there is on iOS. Your ability to influence the order of apps that appear when you click Share depends on your phone hardware and Android OS version.
🧠 Academy Members: Get step-by-step training along with a video demo and more details on Android options, in the lesson Evernote Mobile: How to Share to Evernote.
Why This Matters
When you can capture anything from any app in seconds, you eliminate the mental burden of trying to remember where you saw something important.
Instead of thinking "I know I saw that article somewhere..." you simply search Evernote and find it instantly.
Everything is in one searchable place.
You’ll reclaim time, stress less, and your future self will thank you for never losing another important piece of information.
Cheers to your productivity —
Stacey
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