I agree that this would be very helpful, and easy to implement. I use it for gray literature - ie blogs and online-only open-access journals, reports, legal cases, and white papers. I actually find myself citing web pages very often. My work-around :
print the web page as a pdf file
create the PP entry, as a type-website
manually update the details
manually add the pdf from the file on my pc
here’s just a few of my recent entries. As you can see, automating the process would help. Ive got a keyboard macro program… mb I should make a macro for this!!!
I think the best option is likely to print to PDF, then add PDF from within paperpile. I think this is a reasonable solution to preserve the information. Good luck!
this is the workaround that I use, but PP REALLY should do this for the user. Web pages change and disappear, so preserving it as a PDF in the database should be a mandatory (i.e., correct, the only permitted) function.
I agree that it should be a built-in feature, but one advantage of printing separately is having more control of the PDF. I use this Chrome plugin to clean up the crud from webpages before printing, making a much easier-to-read experience.
I am a new user and this is one of two features so far that are missing. Paperpile was highly recommended by a fellow post graduate researcher and I’m in the arts where webpages are actually primary sources quite often so have to save a pdf so that info doesn’t get lost even if the website just updates (an artist changes their portfolio).
Right now I save it as a PDF then upload it to paperpile, but a one click when adding a citation as a webpage would be super helpful and much faster!
longtime user about to switch to Zotero permanently due exactly to this ONE feature. Well – two. I can hit a shortcut extension in Brave and save a Zotero link without using the mouse, plus I get the html saved. with paperpile I have to move mouse, and I don’t get html. I have over 8k items in paperpile.
I am still hoping for this feature to be added, but I did find a slightly better work around than saving the pdf to computer then uploading the pdf to PP.
I have a chrome extension called print friendly and pdf. on PP when I click Add PDF → Browse Manually, It takes me to the original webpage where I can click that extension and then right click the PDF it creates and it is added directly to PP instead of going to computer then uploading. Hope this helps someone!
I also use web pages more and more. While the ‘workaround’ by printing to pdf and storing that in Paperpile is working fine, the point of a reference is that another researcher can check your source. Therefore a link to WebCite (or another way to make the source available to check after it goes down) would be a lot more scientifically correct.
Any plans to bring this feature? I have been playing with Citavi reference manager and they have this feature to save website as PDF and I found this handy. Can you plz consider this in next update?
@mullatausif while this is not in our immediate plans, our extension and import workflows are currently undergoing extensive rewrites which could pave the way towards this feature. No timeline to speak of yet, but I’ve added your +1 to the topic along with everyone else’s for the team to consider.
