My workflow involves exploring lots of online content, finding a few things I think are interesting, saving these things for possible later use, and when I am looking for something to write about exploring this stored content for possibilities. I have my way of doing and I have an approach that is consistent across whatever device I happen to be using. Typically, I explore with Chrome or Brave (based on chromium) and use an Evernote extension to store content in Evernote.
My standard approach aside, I do try to keep up on how others do the same thing. Personal preference and budget constraints can influence decisions and I want to be aware enough to be able to offer suggestions for others looking for options.
I encountered an article describing how recent version of iOS allowed users to screen capture a complete copy of a web page and save it as a pdf. It was unclear to me how this worked and I tried the strategy I was familiar with for iOS screen capture and it not seem to work as advertised. I could capture what I saw on the screen as a photo, but I could not figure out how to capture the parts of a web page I did not see on the screen. I had the most recent iOS version and there were no setting options so I was befuddled. Try as I might, I could not find the two buttons allowing me to select screen or page.
Eventually I figured it out. If you want to save a pdf of a web page in iOS here is the technique you need. My problem was it was not obvious to me from the article that this only works with Safari. I have built my work techniques around Chrome and chrome extensions. The option of screen or page only works with Safari. Execute the screen capture double button press in Safari and when you open the thumbnail of the screen for editing you will see the options of what to save. You save a screen as a pdf or photo. You save a page as a pdf. PDFs can be saved to files or to an online storage option such as Google Drive. I won’t change how I presently do things, but I can imagine a way to make the pure Apple thing work.
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