Web pages, selected text, images and ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity chats. One click saves them to a folder on your own computer.
This is a free extension for Chrome on a computer. It can’t be installed on a phone, so send the link to your computer and install it there:
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What the video shows: things you find online end up scattered across bookmarks, screenshots, downloads and chat windows. A page, a selection, an image or one AI reply: one click drops it into a folder on your own computer, sorted by topic. No server, no account. Then Claude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI reads that folder, with a source for every item.
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How it works
Your research ends up scattered across bookmarks, screenshots, your downloads folder and a pile of chat windows. When you want an AI to sort it out, you don’t know what to hand it.
Any ordinary folder on your disk. You choose it.
Whole pages, selected text, images, AI replies. One click and it’s saved.
Claude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI, for example, reads it all and hands back a summary with a source for every point.
Features
One click saves the article’s main text as a single Markdown file.
Watch chapter 03Highlight it and right-click. Only the lines you picked are kept.
Watch chapter 04Right-click to save one image at full size, or pick several from the page at once.
Watch chapter 05Every reply in ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity can be saved on its own.
Watch chapter 06Marked with what you said and what the AI said. On Perplexity, the source links inside the text come along too.
Watch chapter 07Spreadsheets, code and documents, saved into your folder as the original files.
Watch chapter 08One subject, one folder. Add a sentence on what it’s for, and your AI gets it right away.
Watch chapter 09Saving the same page again updates the copy you have instead of adding another.
Watch chapter 03Built for AI agents
your folder/└── game-art-reference/ ├── MATERIAL.md the entry point for an AI ├── README.md the list for you ├── index.json the index ├── assets/ originals, untouched └── COLLECT-20260930-3f2a1b9c0d1e.md
![The outline Claude Code wrote after reading the folder: each point is tagged [S] if it comes from the material or [I] if inferred (chapter 13 of the tutorial, from a real run)](/images/ai-outline-en-1017.webp)
Privacy
The author can’t receive what you save with the extension, because there is nowhere for it to go.
What you save is written straight into your folder.
Nothing to register, nothing to log into.
The extension has no analytics, no tracking and no ads.
It can touch the folder you picked and no other folder on your disk.
Tutorial
Installing, saving, topics, handing it to your AI, a locked folder and getting help. Click a chapter to see what it covers; once the video is up, it will play from there.
Once the video is uploaded, it will play here.
Chapters16 chaptersAbout 9 minutes in all
Search the Chrome Web Store for “Inspiration Collector”, add it to Chrome, then pin it to the toolbar.
Click the toolbar icon to open the side panel. The first time, pick a folder and allow it once in Chrome.
“Save page” in the side panel saves the whole article as one item. Saving the same page twice still leaves one copy.
Select a few sentences, right-click the highlight and choose “Save selection to Collector”. One passage, one item.
Right-click to save one image at full size; use “Images” to pick several. Small icons are skipped.
“Save this”, at the end of each reply in ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity, saves just that reply.
“Save page” on a chat saves the whole conversation, marked with who said what. Perplexity keeps its sources too.
“Files” saves the original xlsx, py and md files ChatGPT made into assets/. It is greyed out on other sites.
“New topic” makes a folder and a sentence on what it is for, written to MATERIAL.md. You can change it any time.
Breadcrumbs show where you are, and every level is clickable. “Switch topic” changes topic; “Change folder” changes where everything is saved.
“List” or “Grid”, ALL / TXT / IMG / FILE, search and “On this page”. Delete takes two clicks.
One .md per item, original files in assets/. Every item records its source at the top; MATERIAL.md explains the folder to your AI.
After five items, “hand it to your AI” appears: paste the path, copy the prompt and paste it into Claude Code. It reads everything and returns a sourced outline (from a real run).
Left idle, the folder locks: click “Unlock folder”. If the side panel cannot unlock it, the lock icon at the top opens a separate page.
Turning “Page tools” off removes the buttons on web pages; the side panel still saves. The trash icon shows what will be deleted first.
“How it works”, “Get help” (checks everything on the spot), “Privacy” and “About me”.
Requirements
It works in desktop Chrome. Not on phones, iPad or Android tablets: Chrome there can’t install extensions.
Desktop Chrome
Tested
Desktop Chrome
Tested
Chrome on these can’t install extensions
This extension is only on the Chrome Web Store
News
Just update from the Chrome Web Store. If a site changes its layout again, the collector will first try to find the conversation on its own.
Other websites, Claude and Perplexity are not affected. The fix ships with 1.0.5.
Changelog
What changed in each version.
FAQ
No, it’s free. There’s no paid version and no ads.
In a folder you choose yourself. There’s no server, so the author never receives any of it.
After a while idle, Chrome locks the folder so the extension can’t touch your files. Next time you save, click “Unlock folder”. That’s the protection working, not a bug.
No. Chrome on phones can’t install extensions, so use it in Chrome on your computer.
Any AI agent that can read a folder on your computer, such as Claude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI.
No. Saving the same page again updates the copy you already have; if nothing changed, it just says “Already saved”.
Click the stethoscope icon (“Get help”) at the top of the side panel. It checks everything on the spot and tells you what’s wrong and which button to press. It can also put the results into an email to the author. Whether to send it is up to you.
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In the age of AI, I care about more than efficiency: I care about how people use technology to find new missions, new doorways and new connections.
I write about AI, interactive experiences, bringing physical spaces online, helping small companies punch above their weight, and making products.
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