Collect from Chrome and Edge

Connect your extension

1. 1

   Open the official Canvas Perch Capture extension and choose Sign in to Canvas Perch. The Chrome Web Store release is being prepared; unpacked development builds connect to a local development server.

2. 2

   Sign in with your Canvas Perch account in the browser window, then review and approve capture access. The extension requests only capture:write for its capture endpoint. A personal API key is not required.

3. 3

   The official extension connects to canvasperch.com. For an unpacked development build, open Use a different Canvas Perch server and enter your local server address before signing in.

Save something worth keeping

1. 1

   Open a normal web page. Choose the extension's capture action or a context-menu action for selected text, a link or an image.

2. 2

   For an element capture, activate the picker, choose the visible element, and review its plain text or selected image. Form fields and password contents are excluded.

3. 3

   Review the title, source link, selected content and destination. Add an optional note, then save. Shared-space destinations are canvases you have permission to edit.

4. 4

   A draft kept in this browser remains local until you choose Save. After signing in to another account, explicitly assign an older draft to that account before saving it.

5. 5

   If smart tagging is enabled for your account, a newly saved item may receive automatic tags from Mistral, with Azure-hosted GPT-6 Luna after a temporary failure. If both fail temporarily, later recovery may use Luna and Google Vertex-hosted Claude Haiku 5.5 through OpenRouter Zero Data Retention routes. Edit or remove tags in the item reader, or turn tagging off to cancel pending recovery.

Connection and privacy

• The extension stores short-lived access and rotating refresh tokens in trusted extension storage. Tokens are never sent to captured pages or the element picker.
• Disconnect revokes the tokens, clears the connection and cached destinations, and removes API host access. Unsent drafts remain in this browser profile.
• The extension does not fetch remote image bytes or inspect browsing activity without an explicit capture action.

Troubleshooting

• If a destination is missing, choose Refresh spaces and check that you are connected to the expected account. Shared canvases also require permission to edit them.
• If you close or decline sign-in, choose Sign in to Canvas Perch to try again. An interrupted sign-in keeps unsent drafts on this browser.
• If your subscription has ended, open Canvas Perch Billing to restore an active plan. Capture works on every active plan, including Cove.
• If a save fails, keep the draft and try again when the connection returns. Signing in to another account requires confirmation before that draft can be saved there.