1
Build a Flow.
Choose a destination in Notion for your Flow.
You can capture links and web data to existing pages, or create new pages in a database.
2
Set (or Auto-Fill) Properties
Set property values, like the page title, URL, and a tag.
Want to use these options every time you run this Flow? Set them to Auto-Fill.
3
Capture Highlights.
Hit the Content button, then highlight as much of the article as you want.
Use the Ctrl + Shift + S shortcut to capture a highlight.
Finally, you can Capture the page, along with your highlights and notes, to Notion.
This is the capture tool for @NotionHQ we’ve needed for years. It’s so beautifully designed and plays so nicely with Notion. Light years ahead of other clipper apps.
Benjamin Borowski
Co-founder, Notion Mastery
Built by Notion Nerds
Flylighter is built by a small team of Notion nerds, including Eli Wimmer (creator of Notion Style Tweaks) and Thomas Frank (the most-followed Notion expert).
Frequently Asked Questions
What browsers does Flylighter support?
Our browser extension currently supports Chromium-based web browsers.
That includes Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Arc, and Opera. Any other browser that supports Chrome extensions should work, too.
Firefox and Safari support are planned as future releases.
Do you have mobile apps?
We’ll have them very soon for Flylighter Pro subscribers. iOS first, then Android.
All of your Flows will sync between desktop and mobile devices, which will make Flylighter one of the most powerful mobile information-capture apps on the market.
We’re just getting started with mobile, too. In the future we’ll have speech-to-text, AI summarization, and more features tailor-made for instant idea-capture.
What is a Flow?
Flows are forms you use to capture web pages, bookmarks, highlights, and more to Notion.
Each Flow has a destination – either a Notion database or a page.
When you capture to a database, you can set its property values with options from Notion (e.g. Select/Status values) or dynamic web data (e.g. the page's Title or URL).
You can also set Flows to Instant Capture, set keyboard shortcuts to launch them, set them to open immediately to the Content Editor for highlighting and note-taking, and more.
How is Flylighter different from other Notion web clippers?
The biggest answer to this question is that we've painstakingly built Flylighter's foundations to be as modular as possible.
The goal isn't to build a simple Notion web clipper – it's to build the ultimate idea capture tool that enables you to control the destination of your data.
We've built our own custom web data parser and data transformation algorithms. This means we'll soon be able to add additional input, output, and transformation capabilities to the app – e.g. voice capture, AI summarization, Zapier/Pipedream integrations, and more.
Our custom web parser is also under heavy active development, and it already does a better job at capturing and rendering relevant web content in Notion.
Other Notion web clippers use older, less-maintained web parser tools that capture a lot of irrelevant data from web pages.
Some of them also don't use the Notion API; instead, they use your logged-in Notion session to act as you when creating new pages.
This can present a security issue; if you want to limit their access in your browser, they'll break.
Flylighter uses the official Notion API for all captures, meaning you can limit its access (e.g. requiring the extension to be clicked) and it'll still work.
Is my data private?
Yes. Flylighter runs entirely in your browser and uses your browser’s secure local extension storage.
You can also set the extension to require a click before it can access data on the current page (through Site Access settings).
When we sync your Flows and Capture History, we strongly encrypt them. We also do not save the contents of web pages, nor your highlights or annotations, on our servers. Your Capture History simply contains page titles, URL, and Notion page IDs – these are all we need to give you a useful list of previous captures to which you can append more highlights.
Flylighter is also more secure than other Notion web clippers that don’t use the official Notion API. Some other Notion web clippers make changes in your Notion workspace using your active session token in your browser. Flylighter doesn't do this.