Clippings
A private clippings in one HTML file on your machine: no account, no cloud, no server to talk to.
This is not a screenshot. It's the real tool, running right here: go on, put something in it.
Forged into a knife, this tool ages with use: the blades you reach for wear soft, entries you tend keep their bloom, and the years travel with the file through every reforge.
You read something last month that perfectly made the point you need today, and it's gone — swallowed by the scroll. Clippings keeps the passages that stopped you: the title, the URL, and the excerpt itself, saved before the internet rearranges itself again.
What it keeps
- Titleshort text
- URLshort text
- Excerptnotes
Standing facts
- One HTML file. Opens in any modern browser, on any operating system.
- No account. No login, no sign-up, no e-mail wall.
- No cloud. Nothing leaves your browser: no server, no telemetry, no analytics.
- Yours forever. The file keeps working whether or not Offline.Ltd does.
- Ages with use. Entries you tend keep their bloom; the years travel with the file through every reforge.
In ten years
Whatever you put in (Title, URL and Excerpt) stays inside the file itself. There is no account to lapse, no plan to be sunset, no migration e-mail with a deadline in it. A decade of clippings entries is a decade of your own handwriting, kept in a document you can back up like any other.
If Offline.Ltd closes tomorrow, nothing on your machine notices. That isn't a marketing promise; it's simply what a file is.
Getting your data out
Export to CSV from inside the tool and open it in anything: a spreadsheet, another app, a text editor. Or keep the HTML file: it is plain, readable, and inspectable; you can open it in a text editor and see your own rows sitting there. No export queue, no "we'll e-mail you a link within 48 hours", no format that only one vendor can read.
Copy the file to a USB stick, a NAS, a folder your devices already sync. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, online or off, because a browser is the only thing it ever needed.
Who else sees this
Nobody. Your Title, URL and Excerpt never leave the file on your own disk. There is no account, no telemetry, no analytics, and no code in the file that opens a network connection, pull the cable and watch it carry on working. How privacy works across the Knowledge tools →
Questions people ask
How do I save quotes and excerpts from articles I read?
When a passage earns it, you copy it in: the piece's title, its URL so you can find the source, and the excerpt word for word. Your clippings file slowly becomes the best anthology you own — you chose every line.
What happens if the original article disappears from the web?
You keep the excerpt regardless — that's rather the point. Links rot; your clipping of the passage that mattered survives in your file, with the URL kept as provenance.
Are my saved clippings tracked or shared?
No — nothing about what you read or save leaves the page. Clippings is one HTML file running offline in your browser, no account attached, and the file is yours for good.
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Fits your knife at weight 1. Nothing here is final, Knife follows Life. Reforging within your tier is free, forever. Add it, drop it, reforge it later; the file stays yours either way.