--- title: "Capture: paste, drop, email and import" description: "Every way to get things into Savepad: paste anywhere, drag and drop, email from your phone straight into a folder, ad library links and imports." source: https://savepad.app/features/capture --- # Paste it, drop it or email it. On a laptop you paste and drop. On your phone you share to your own Savepad email address, like sending it to a friend. And you can bring everything over from the app you used before. [Join the waitlist](https://savepad.app/#waitlist) [All features](https://savepad.app/features) *A phone sharing a recipe by email to a Savepad address, and the card landing in Unsorted a second later, marked just now, by email* *The save box after pressing command V with a Linear pricing link: it looks like a link from linear.app, going into Pricing pages, with a link, an image, a hex colour, code and a note as the things you can paste* Paste anywhere01 / 06 ## Copy it anywhere, ⌘V in Savepad. Copy a link, an image, a hex code, a snippet or a paragraph, go to Savepad and press ⌘V. There's no box to click first. Savepad works out what you pasted, shows you what it thinks it is, and saves it into the folder you're in. - Wrong guess? Pick the right type with one click - Press N if you'd rather type it in *Fourteen files being dragged onto a Savepad folder called Screenshots: images, PDFs and a font, with the drop zone lit up* Drag and drop02 / 06 ## Drag the whole screenshots folder in. Drag files from your desktop onto Savepad and let go: screenshots, PDFs, fonts, videos, a Figma export. Each one gets saved as what it is, into the folder you dropped it on. Your 400 screenshots from 2024 can finally leave the desktop. - Originals kept at full resolution, never recompressed - Every image gets its colours and its text read *A phone writing an email to Savepad with a YouTube link attached and a note, and the video landing in Unsorted a few seconds later* Email it from your phone03 / 06 ## Share it to Savepad from any app on your phone. Every account gets its own email address. On your phone, hit share in any app, pick email and send it to Savepad. The link, photo or newsletter lands in your Unsorted a few seconds later with its preview made. Save the address as a contact called Savepad and it's two taps. - Links become pages, attachments become files, forwarded emails stay emails - Works from any mail app *A Savepad email address split into you, plus paid social for the folder, and the Savepad domain, with a forwarded email landing in the Paid social folder* Straight into a folder04 / 06 ## Email it straight into a folder. Send it to you+paid-social@in.savepad.app and it goes straight into Paid social. Forward a competitor's launch email to you+competitors@ and it's filed before you've closed the tab. If there's no folder with that name, it lands in Unsorted. - Your address is in Settings, under Saving from elsewhere *A Meta ad library link pasted in and saved as the ad itself, with its primary text, headline, run date, platforms and the landing page it points at* Ad library links05 / 06 ## Paste an ad library link, get the whole ad. Paste a link from the Meta, TikTok or LinkedIn ad library and Savepad saves the creative, the primary text, the headline, how long it's been running and the page it sends people to. The landing page gets saved as its own page too. - Keep tabs on what your competitors are running [Search every ad library at once, free](https://savepad.app/free-tools/ad-library-search) *Savepad installed on a phone home screen, and the Android share sheet with Savepad at the top* Install it06 / 06 ## Put it on your home screen. Savepad is a web app you can install. On your phone, open my.savepad.app and pick Add to Home Screen. On a laptop, install it from Chrome or Edge. It opens in its own window, and on Android it shows up in the share menu. - No app store, updates arrive on their own ## Bring your old stuff. Years of bookmarks in Raindrop, a Pocket account that's shutting down, 3,000 browser bookmarks you've never opened. Pick the space, check the preview, done. Savepad then fetches every page again in the background to make fresh previews. | From | Export this | What comes across | | --- | --- | --- | | Any browser | Bookmarks HTML | Folders, subfolders | | Raindrop.io | CSV or HTML | Collections as folders, tags, notes | | Pocket | CSV | Tags, date saved | | Pinboard | JSON | Tags, notes | | Instapaper | CSV | Folders | | Savepad | JSON export | Folders, tags, notes | | Anything else | CSV with a url column | Title, tags, folder, note, date | *An import preview for a Raindrop CSV going into Work: links with their folders and tags, 1,284 links, 12 folders and 40 tags, and an Import button* ## FAQs ### Is there a browser extension? Not yet. It's on the roadmap. For now it's paste, drag and drop, and email, which covers more than you'd think. ### Can I save from my phone without installing anything? Yes. Share to your Savepad email address from any app. Installing the web app is only for looking things up on the go. ### What happens to duplicates when I import? Savepad tells you how many you already had and doesn't save them twice. ### Can I undo an import? Yes. Every import can be undone in one click from the same page, in case you picked the wrong file. ### Can my AI assistant save things for me? Yes, through the MCP server: connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor with the scopes you pick. Savepad itself never calls a model. ## Read these next - [Save from your phone: Your address, and how to use it.](https://savepad.app/docs/save-from-your-phone) - [Import from other apps: Every source, step by step.](https://savepad.app/docs/import-from-other-apps) - [Pocket alternatives: Where to go now Pocket’s gone.](https://savepad.app/blog/pocket-alternatives) - [Bookmarks converter: Tidy an export before you bring it in.](https://savepad.app/free-tools/bookmarks-converter) [Next feature Keyboard and accessibility Every shortcut, and how it works with a screen reader.](https://savepad.app/features/keyboard) ## Want in first? Savepad launches soon. Leave your email and I'll let you know when it's live.