The web clipper
Send to Grain is a small extension for Chrome and Firefox. Right-click anything worth keeping and it lands in the Grain project you last had open, as ordinary files in your own folders.
What it sends
Images
Right-click an image and it downloads into your project, with the page it came from remembered as its source.
Posts
Send an Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, Pinterest, Cara, ArtStation, Bluesky, Are.na or Cosmos post and its media download at full resolution, with the author and caption remembered.
Pages and links
Send a page and it becomes a link card carrying the page title and its preview image.
Audio
Audio files can be sent straight from the browser too.
Articles
Clip an article and the readable part of the page is converted to markdown in your browser and saved as a note, with the source attached.
No accounts, no servers
The extension has no host permissions, reads a page only when you clip it, and never talks to any server. It hands what you picked to the Grain app on your computer through a grain:// link, and article conversion happens inside your browser. Nothing is collected, and nothing leaves your machine.
Get the extension
Free, for Chrome (and Chromium browsers) and Firefox.
It needs the free Grain desktop app running on your Mac or Windows machine.
Try it on your own folders
The download is free for three projects with every feature included, and nothing is imported anywhere: point it at a folder and it is a board.