# [[Obsidian Web viewer plugin]]
![[Obsidian Web viewer plugin.svg]]
The Obsidian web viewer is a [[Core plugins|core plugin]] for [[obsidian-playbook/Using Obsidian/01 First steps with Obsidian/Obsidian|Obsidian]] that allows you to open web pages within Obsidian itself.
## Reader mode
This plugin comes with the command `Web viewer: Toggle reader mode`. When reader mode is enabled, webpages are stripped of formatting and only the text is shown.
For example, here's what an article might look like with reader mode *off*, in Obsidian web viewer:
![[obsidian-web-viewer-reader-mode-off.png]]
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Here's what the same article looks like with reader mode toggled on:
![[obsidian-web-viewer-reader-mode-on.png]]
The experience is quite nice and minimalist, and it uses your Obsidian theme in a seamless way. The text in reader mode is not editable; it's only rendered as if in Preview mode.
## Save to vault
Another new command this plugin introduced is `Web viewer: Save to vault`. This command effectively takes the text in the same way that toggling reader mode on does, but it then saves it as a Markdown file in your Obsidian vault. The default location of webpages saved in this way can be determined in Settings.
Since this feature creates a Markdown file, the text is fully editable. However, images are not downloaded. They're instead replaced with a link to the online images.
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## Text Elements
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[^1]: Westenburg, J. (2025). *I deleted my second brain: Why I erased 10,000 notes, 7 years of ideas, and every thought I tried to save.* Retrieved from https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain