Using Evernote Web clipper with DevonThink

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@rkv

if you want anything like the Safari Reader View then Evernote seems to be the closest you can get. Although, I would have thought that someone would be able to leverage Reader View and generate a pdf from that view within Safari. That’s a feature that existed at one point but at least on my Mac seems to have disappeared.

I use a Keyboard Maestro macro to do this for DEVONthink, a separate one for Evernote, and another for Scrivener. You can set this up for any app that has a “Save PDF to [app]” setting configured in the Print > PDF dialog box. What you do is set up a universal shortcut in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts like these that I defined for DEVONthink and Scrivener:

Make sure you use the exact wording from your Print > PDF dialog box. This is a sample of mine – which of course appears in all applications:

Then the macro is simply running keystrokes in Safari:

My Keyboard Maestro conflict menu for Safari has several of these actions. For me typing one keystroke to invoke the whole routine to get reader view then export that as a PDF to an app is a lot simpler than invoking DEVONthink’s or Evernote’s clippers.