--- title: "Every way to save" description: "Paste, drag and drop, the save dialog, email, your phone, an assistant, an import, or the API. Every way into Savepad, and when to use which." source: https://savepad.app/docs/ways-to-save --- ### Browse the docs Saving # Every way to save Paste, drag and drop, the save dialog, email, your phone, an assistant, an import, or the API. Every way into Savepad, and when to use which. Savepad has one rule for saving: you shouldn’t have to tell it what something is. Paste a link and it’s a link. Paste `#7A4AFB` and it’s a colour. Drop a PDF and it’s a PDF. It works that out with plain old pattern matching, no AI involved. ## Paste it anywhere Copy something, click anywhere in Savepad that isn’t a text box, and press ⌘V (Ctrl V on Windows). It saves. This works for: - **Links.** Most become a web page. YouTube, Vimeo, Loom, TikTok, Wistia, Twitch, and Dailymotion links become videos. Google Maps, Apple Maps, OpenStreetMap, and Bing Maps links become places. Links from big recipe sites become recipes. Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Google ad library links get their ad details. - **Images** you copied, like a screenshot straight off your clipboard. - **Hex codes.** One or a whole row of them, and you get a colour or a palette. - **Code.** Savepad spots code and guesses the language. Wrap it in three backticks with a language name if you want to be sure. - **Anything else** becomes a note. If you’re inside a folder when you paste, it goes into that folder. If not, it goes into **Unsorted**. ## Drag and drop Drag files onto the Savepad window. One file, twenty, or a whole folder of screenshots from your desktop. Each file becomes its own save, and Savepad picks the type from the file: images, PDFs, `.eml` emails, fonts, audio, video, GPX and KML routes, and documents. ## The save dialog Press **N** or the **Save** button at the top. Paste, type, or drop into the big box, and Savepad tells you what it thinks it is before you save. That’s also where you pick the folder, add tags, and write why you saved it. ![The Savepad save dialog with a stripe.com link pasted in, recognised as a link, going into Work / Landing pages with the #pricing tag and a note](https://savepad.app/shots/the-savepad-save-dialog-with-a-stripe-com-link-c3bc57.png) Press N or the Save button. Paste, type, or drop, and it says what it thinks you gave it. Under the box there’s **Or pick what it is**. That’s for the things you can’t paste: a place without a maps link, a sequence, or a collection. You can also use it to force a type, like saving a product page as a **Product** instead of a plain link. ![The save dialog's list of 17 things you can make by hand, from Link and Image to Sequence and Collection, with Light on the paid ones](https://savepad.app/shots/the-save-dialog-s-list-of-17-things-you-da2390.png) Or pick what it is. Handy for places, sequences, and collections, where there is nothing to paste. Press ⌘↵ to save without reaching for the mouse. ## From outside Savepad - **Email.** Every account gets its own address. Forward things to it from any phone or inbox. See [saving from your phone](https://savepad.app/docs/save-from-your-phone). - **The share menu on Android.** Install the app from Chrome and Savepad shows up when you hit share. - **Your assistant.** Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and friends can save for you once they’re connected. See [saving with your assistant](https://savepad.app/docs/save-with-your-assistant). - **An import.** Bring a whole library from Raindrop, Pocket, your browser, or a CSV. See [importing from other apps](https://savepad.app/docs/import-from-other-apps). - **The API**, for your own scripts and Zapier. See the [API reference](https://savepad.app/docs/api). ## Every type, in detail Each type has its own page with how to save it and what you get: - On the web: [links and web pages](https://savepad.app/docs/links-and-web-pages), [ad library links](https://savepad.app/docs/ad-library-links), [videos](https://savepad.app/docs/videos), [recipes](https://savepad.app/docs/recipes), and [products](https://savepad.app/docs/products) - Pictures and files: [images and screenshots](https://savepad.app/docs/images-and-screenshots), [PDFs](https://savepad.app/docs/pdfs), [documents](https://savepad.app/docs/documents), [emails](https://savepad.app/docs/emails), [fonts](https://savepad.app/docs/fonts), and [audio](https://savepad.app/docs/audio) - Things you write: [notes](https://savepad.app/docs/notes), [code snippets](https://savepad.app/docs/code-snippets), and [colours and palettes](https://savepad.app/docs/colours-and-palettes) - Out in the world: [places and maps](https://savepad.app/docs/places-and-maps) and [routes](https://savepad.app/docs/routes) - Saves made of saves: [sequences](https://savepad.app/docs/sequences) and [collections](https://savepad.app/docs/collections) ## What counts as a save Every link, image, note, or file is one save. Free keeps 150 of them, Light and Ultra Pro Max Plus have no limit. Binned saves count until the bin empties. [Plans and limits](https://savepad.app/docs/plans-and-billing) has the details, and [what happens after you save](https://savepad.app/docs/what-happens-when-you-save) covers what Savepad does with each one.