(3) DevonThink rtf capture, which is pretty ugly.

(1) The web page in the raw, with all those wonderful ads. Hopefully, you’ll understand why we like Evernote’s clipper. Hidden by the little triangles are screen captures. Note, I purposely turned off ad blocking so that you can see how each tool handles distractions on the page. To illustrate, I captured this web page today using both. Although, Evernote’s clipper offers a lot more flexibility and control over the selected area to be captured than Reader view. It’s closest other comparison is probably Safari’s Reader View.

I tend to prefer to capture what Evernote refers to as “simplified article”. While both offer the webarchive format and are comparable on that front, I rarely use web archives. has a great tip for doing this easily, as has pointed out, Evernote does a much simpler job of cleaning up the webpage which is saved. Now, I open the page in Readability view in Safari, then save it as a PDF in DevonThink. Updated : This has proven to be more trouble than it’s worth. We’ll see if this solution lasts over the long term, or if it develops glitches. I expect this might be something that can be automated to be done at intervals. You do have to remember to import the documents from Evernote to DevonThink. I tried it with a half-dozen Web pages just now and holy cow it works! So why not clip with Evernote, then import the clipped file to DevonThink? Here’s what I’ve been thinking: DevonThink does a good job importing notes from Evernote. The DevonThink Web clipper is … barely tolerable.

Evernote’s Web clipper is fantastic and does a beautiful job of formatting and saving web pages, letting you highlight them in your browser and do all sorts of wonderful things. DevonThink is overall far superior to Evernote, but there is one area where Evernote just kicks DevonThink’s butt: The Web clipper.

Evernote web clip