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[theexplorer123]

On articles I read, I enjoy reading the comments section; and would love to read them without all the clutter that Clearly provides.

Can Clearly do this?

If not, are there any plans of doing this?

Thanks

[Owyn]

Not sure what you are talking about.
Can you give an example?

[tardis]

I think they're asking for the comments section of an article to be included in Clearly's output — decluttered the same way an article is.

Took me a few tries to word that properly (and I hope I have). It's an awkward request to try to phrase. Hopefully that makes it a little more clear?

Personally, it seems a little counterintuitive to what Clearly is supposed to do. I've always used it as a way of cutting out all the stuff I don't need from an article's page — comments included.

[Owyn]

That is what is confusing.
In general, the Clearly article clipper already includes "de-cluttered" comments, the e.g. Chrome Web Clipper article clip does not.
I make frequent use of the difference to quickly clip articles without any of the comments.

[theexplorer123]

Sorry that my post was confusing. I wrote it rather hastily. I will try to put it more succintly.

I think they're asking for the comments section of an article to be included in Clearly's output — decluttered the same way an article is.

Took me a few tries to word that properly (and I hope I have). It's an awkward request to try to phrase. Hopefully that makes it a little more clear?

Personally, it seems a little counterintuitive to what Clearly is supposed to do. I've always used it as a way of cutting out all the stuff I don't need from an article's page — comments included.

This is exactly correct; except I actually want the comments- but without all the other things that Clearly helps do away with (ads, etcs..)

I prefer this:

rather than this:

I find that this works only on some of the pages I read and no others. Any reason why?

[Owyn]

I find that this works only on some of the pages I read and no others. Any reason why?

Because what you are asking for is really hard and contrary to the primary purpose of Clearly.
Best workaround at this time is to pre-select the comments sections before clicking Clearly icon.
You might also find AdBlock Plus to be of general help for your browsing.

I use both AdBlock and Clearly.

[shimra]

On articles I read, I enjoy reading the comments section; and would love to read them without all the clutter that Clearly provides.

Can Clearly do this?

If not, are there any plans of doing this?

Thanks

You can select manually, the article and the comment section before hitting the clearly button. Sometimes this works and causes both the article and comments to be displayed, while sometimes it crashes clearly. I reported this in the troublesome url thread but they haven't fixed it.

On some blogs the comments themselves are interesting "content" and well worth clipping. I hope they fix this.

[Dellu]

I also want this feature. I have been struggling to find a way of including the comments section of New York times webpage into my clippings. In some cases, the comments are more informative and powerful than the original article itself. Look at this page for example. I want Clearly to remove all the clutter on the right and top of the webpage, as it always does, but keep the comments section. I just want to clip and annotate some of the comments. It would be great if you guys can offer the feature as an option in Clearly.

[Tenacious E]

Yes exactly this -- Clearly crashes. For example on this standard drupal article, Clearly cuts the comments. When the comments are selected, Clearly dies.

http://www.acquia.co...ents-migrate-24

 

You can select manually, the article and the comment section before hitting the clearly button. Sometimes this works and causes both the article and comments to be displayed, while sometimes it crashes clearly. I reported this in the troublesome url thread but they haven't fixed it.

 

 

In the meantime Print What You Like is my best hope.