Web Content Capture
Saving various web content is the most prominent feature of remio, especially in the automatic mode. remio is the first tool that can save almost everything you ever accessed on the web, automatically, without one-single click.
This guide explains how remio identifies, filters, records, and structures web content—and how users can interact with the information that’s been captured.
Before you walling through this guide, you should go to Chrome Web Store and install the remio browser extension. For more info, please refer to User Guide: Getting Started.
Why Auto-Capture is Important
Today, we obtain a vast amount of information from the web, including news, collaborative documents, emails, various SaaS software, and so on.
But this information slips away after we've seen it. Often, when we need it, we find that we have to spend a lot of time retrieving it again. Even today, many of our information sources only offer the most basic keyword search function, and they don't intelligently rank the content you've viewed at the top automatically. If you found the information on the fifth page of the search results at that time, you still have to flip to the fifth page to find it again. Many SaaS software takes a long time to reopen a page, even if you closed it less than five seconds ago.
If you've ever written a weekly report, you surely know what I'm talking about.
But we can think differently. What if there was a tool that could automatically save almost all the information you've accessed with high quality? When you need to use this information, you could quickly retrieve it with keywords and ask. The content you've viewed would always be ranked at the very top instead of on the fifth page, and you'd never have to worry about the snail-like speed of many software applications again.
That is auto-capture of remio, the feature that will relieve you of all the burden of saving materials and time-consuming, boring and frustrating process to just find something you have seen before.
Using Auto-Capture
To use the auto-capture feature, you need to turn on the Auto capture option in the Settings of the browser extension.
After that, whenever you open a article-like web page, remio will automatically parse and save the main content of the current web page. If you've just installed the plugin, you should see a prompt from remio indicating that the web page content has been successfully saved.
Where can I find the saved pages? You can see the saved pages is the remio desktop application by click All from the left panel and select Resources from the filter. You can also find the saved pages using Search or Ask.
How can I confirm that current page has been saved successfully? You can confirm that is you see a green check mark ✅ on right floating bar of remio's chrome extension.
remio is smart to automatically save only the appropriate pages. remio has many built-in intelligent rules to save only the appropriate pages. Meaningless pages such as login, logout, signup, account, setting, auth, search box, index, dashboard, permissions, order, pay won't be saved. Pages with harmful or sensitive material are also excluded.
How can I remove a saved page? If you think the content of the current web page is not suitable for saving (for example, you know the information on the current web page is incorrect), you can click the green check mark ✅ on right floating bar to remove current page from remio.
What should I do if I don't want to automatically save certain web pages or websites? You can add the URLs of web pages or websites that you don't want remio to save automatically to the Blacklist in the browser extension. You can set the blacklist on the Settings page of the extension. When setting the blacklist, you can use the * character at the beginning or end to do a prefix or suffix matching. When you click the green check mark to delete the saved data of the current web page, the current web page will be automatically added to the Blacklist. In this way, the web page will not be saved automatically when you visit it again later.
Using Highlighter and Web Page Comments
You can use the browser extension to highlight the important part of the page and add comments to the selected text. And save the highlighted text and comments to remio as a note.
On any webpage, select the text you want to highlight. remio will capture that text and create a new note containing only your highlighted words. You’ll see a small toast confirming it was saved. The note is tied to that page’s URL (1 page to 1 note), and if there are multi highlights on the same page, remio adds them to the same note.
You can add a comment to selected text. Usually, users do this by clicking the highlight or using comment shortcut. The comment you write will appear right below the highlighted text in the saved note.
Save Images: To save an image, move your mouse over the image on the webpage. A small “capture” button will appear at the top right corner of the image. Click this button to add the image to the note. The image is saved into the same note for that page.
Where can I find the saved notes: You can find the notes in Unprocessed and All page in the remio desktop application.
Capturing of Youtube
remio will automatically save the subtitle files of YouTube videos. You can also quickly save the current frame of the video by clicking the remio icon below the video.
Add to Favorites and Collection
You can add current web page to Favorites or Collection in the browser extension.
Add to Collection: You can click “Add to Collections” icon on the right floating bar to add the current page to some Collection. You can also do this by right-click on the page and click remio -> Add to Collections.
Add to Favorites: Similarly, you can save a page to your Favorites by click "Add to Favorites" icon on the right floating bar or right-click on the page and click remio -> Add to Favorites.