How to save your AI research in Evernote [Capture: Part 3]
March 16 2026 | Issue 87 | Link to this issue | Subscribe
Hi Reader –
I recently got a question from a reader that I thought would be great to address in this capture series:
"How do you capture the output of AI interactions from tools like Claude and ChatGPT and get them into Evernote?"
Such a good question — and timely.
This whole series is about building the capture habits that make Evernote's AI features actually work. The more you have stored in Evernote, the more powerful AI Assistant and Semantic Search become.
And right now, a lot of valuable research and thinking is happening outside of Evernote — inside tools like ChatGPT and Claude — and never making it back into Evernote.
So let’s talk about how to get all that research back into Evernote, so it becomes searchable and connects to the rest of your knowledge base.
But first, I want to address another question I often get asked…
Can Evernote Replace Your AI Tools?
If you're using ChatGPT or Claude to do research, you may not always need to. Evernote's AI Assistant can search the web directly — meaning you can conduct research right inside Evernote, where the results land automatically in your knowledge base without any extra steps.
That said, here’s my current take: Evernote's AI Assistant is a capable tool, and I love that it can be used to engage with the notes and ideas I’ve captured in Evernote over the years. This has real value.
But, for those who have embraced paid versions of tools like ChatGTP or Claude, AI Assistant isn't a full replacement for them. The token allowance and features of those tools go beyond what's currently available in Evernote.
However, if you're just starting to embrace AI research, Evernote’s AI Assistant may be all you need. You can use the AI Assistant to analyze your notes and the web. And this is powerful.
So, whether you’re a regular user of ChatGPT or Claude (or not), this newsletter issue is relevant because the goal is to make sure that valuable research finds its way into Evernote, where AI Assistant and Semantic Search can actually work with it.
3 Methods to Capture AI Information
Let’s start with the 2 most common ways people save AI conversations — and then the method that actually works best.
Method 1: Save the Permalink
Most AI tools (including both ChatGPT and Claude) let you generate a shareable link to any conversation. This is what most people reach for first. It’s fast and lets you get back to the conversation later.
But here’s the catch…
This link just takes you back to the conversation, but the content itself isn’t in Evernote. That means AI Assistant and Semantic Search can’t read it, summarize it, or surface it for you. It’s a pointer — not a true capture. Not to mention, if you delete the original conversation, the link stops working completely.
Method 2: Copy, Paste, and Add the Link
The next thing most people try is highlighting the useful parts of a conversation, and copying and pasting them into an Evernote note. It works — and it's better than just saving a permalink, because now the content actually lives inside Evernote where AI can work with it.
The challenge with this method is that it's tedious.
You're manually selecting sections, switching apps, pasting, and then ideally going back to grab the permalink too. If you find yourself doing this regularly, there's a better way, and it's already sitting in your browser toolbar. (Hint: It’s Web Clipper.)
Most AI tools (including both ChatGPT and Claude) let you generate a shareable link to any conversation. This is what most people reach for first. It’s fast and lets you get back to the conversation later.
Method 3: Clip It with the Web Clipper (Multi-Select Mode)
This is the method that I recommend. It’s the clear winner because you get the full text of whatever you want to save from the conversation and the link back to the original conversation — automatically, in a single step, without copying and pasting anything.
Because AI conversations don't always clip cleanly with standard clip modes, the key is to use Multi-Select mode. This lets you click specific sections of the conversation you want to capture and combines them into a single Evernote note.
To use it: Open the Web Clipper on the AI conversation page, use Multi-Select mode, then click on the sections you want to save. When you're done selecting, save the clip. Evernote will automatically include the source URL in the note — so you'll have both the content and a link back to the original conversation.
Note: If you’ve tried the web clipper on an AI conversation before, and it looked messy or didn’t behave as expected, it’s likely because your clipper was set to a different default mode. Make sure you choose multi-select specifically. It makes all the difference inside these AI tools.
🧠 Academy Members: See the multi-select option in action in this companion training to the Web-Clipper Masterclass.
A Note on All Three Methods
Regardless of which method you use, the real power comes from what you do after capturing. Give the note a clear title. File it in the right notebook.
That small bit of organization at the moment of capture is what makes the note actually useful when AI Assistant or Semantic Search surfaces it weeks or months later.
Next week, we’ll cover another capture method that's been hiding in plain sight — your email inbox.
Cheers to your productivity —
Stacey
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