Feature Idea: Web-clipper as Chrome and Safari extension

[chenilim]

Summary: Create a Chrome extension that lets you easily save links to websites to Focalboard

How important this is to me and why:

Importance: Medium

Use cases:

1. Quickly add links to websites to create a mood board
2. Quickly compile lists of resources for research

Additional context / similar features: Notion has a webclipper for Chrome and Safari.

Rough usage flow:

• After installing, configure by specifying:
  • URL to Focalboard server (log-in)
  • Board to add links to
• Click on the webclip button to create a new card with link as a property
• P3: Insert screenshot of webpage as an image
• Show link to open created card

What do you guys think? How important is a feature like this to you?

[Johennes]

@chenilim I love this idea because then I could use Focalboard as a read-later service (for which I currently run a private Wallabag instance).

Storing URLs and page titles seems like the minimum viable feature set to me. Perspectively, we could maybe take it a step further and also extract the page content into the card description. I once created this extension for Firefox and Chrome which uses Readability to extract a page's content in reader-friendly format and turndown to convert it to markdown.

How are you envisioning the integration between the browser extension and the Focalboard server to work? Would the extension store the session token it received after logging in to then use it when posting the clipped data to a dedicated endpoint? Or maybe we could turn it around and add a UI in the webapp for generating tokens to be used in external apps?