Copy & Prep Collect from several pages, tidy up, copy all at once
A Chrome extension that collects only the text you pick with the right-click menu — across as many pages as you like — then lets you fix the order and the line breaks before copying it all at once.
USE CASES
Collect while you read, tidy afterwards
However far you wander between tabs, everything you picked stays in one list.
Reading several articles side by side
Once you are moving between tabs, the paragraph you liked a moment ago is on a page you can no longer find. Only the passages you pick from the right-click menu go into the list, so you can order them after you finish reading.
Assembling what you hand to an AI
Pasting a little at a time from several pages leaves the order and the line breaks in a mess. Collect only what you need, reorder it, strip the stray line breaks the web put in, then copy the lot at once.
Gathering material for a report or an email
It removes the step of moving every quote into an editor before you can start writing. Collected items can be edited in the settings tab, and an edit can be taken back to the original selection in one step.
Moving text into an issue, a ticket or a doc
If the destination takes Markdown, switching the output format is the whole of it. Bullet lists, numbered lists, tables and code keep their structure; only the wrapping inside a paragraph is joined back up.
Keeping track of where each passage came from
Finding a source again afterwards takes longer than collecting it did in the first place. The page title, URL and the date you added it are kept with each item and can be included in the output when you want them — off by default.
Walk through one of these jobs
Three common jobs, each written out from where the work gets tedious to the order you actually press things in.
FEATURES
Tidy up what you gathered, before you paste it.
Comparing research, moving notes into an email or a ticket, drafting a document — this is for the work of picking up passages from scattered pages and then fixing the order and the line breaks where you paste them.
Only the text you picked
It handles only what you explicitly add from the right-click menu. Page content is never scanned.
Nothing is rewritten on its own
"Tidy up" shows the before and the after side by side. Your text does not change until you press apply.
Into one, in display order
Reorder, then copy everything at once. Choose plain text or Markdown.
Nothing leaves your device
Everything happens locally. No server, no analytics, no telemetry. It holds no network permissions.
TEXT & SETTINGS
Your collection, and how it comes out
There are only two surfaces: the toolbar popup and the settings tab. Copying everything at once and deleting can be done from the popup; editing and reordering happen in the settings tab, and everything is stored on your device.
Working with what you collected
Review, edit, reorder, delete and clear. An edited passage can be restored to the originally captured text in one step. Reordering uses Move up / Move down buttons.
Delete from the popup
A passage picked up by mistake can be dropped on the spot with the “×” on its row. “Clear all” at the bottom asks you to confirm before it removes everything. Neither one needs the settings tab.
Tidy up
Removes the awkward line breaks and trailing whitespace that come along when you copy from the web. Bullet lists, numbered lists, tables and code keep their structure; only wrapped lines inside a paragraph are rejoined.
Output format
Plain text or Markdown. The body is emitted verbatim — it is never re-wrapped in Markdown syntax.
Source (page name, URL, date added)
Kept alongside each item, but not part of the output by default. Turn on only the ones you want. A line whose value is missing is dropped rather than shown empty.
Source label language
Choose whether the labels read "ページ：" or "Page: ", independently of your browser language. While no source line is switched on, this control stays disabled.
Collecting on / off
Turning it off removes the right-click item and stops every capture. Whatever you already collected stays where it is. Switch it from the popup or the settings tab.
Interface language
Follows your browser language automatically. Japanese and English are supported.
Compatibility
Works on any Google Chrome with Manifest V3 support.
HOW IT WORKS
Collect, tidy up, bring together.
Only the text you picked is collected, and whether to tidy it is your call.
Collect with a right-click
Select text on a page and choose "Add to Copy & Prep" from the right-click menu. The toolbar badge shows how many you have.
Add from as many pages as you like, or from several places on the same page, in whatever order. The page name, URL and date are noted alongside.
Tidy up in the settings tab
Review, edit, reorder and delete. Pressing "Tidy up" shows the before and the after side by side.
Nothing changes unless you press apply, and an already tidied passage can be restored in one step.
Copy it all at once
Everything is joined in display order and copied in one go. Choose plain text or Markdown.
Items are never removed automatically after a copy. Deletion is always your action.
GET STARTED
Install and use
Add it, open it from the toolbar. Copy everything at once and delete from the popup; edit and reorder in the settings tab.
1Install
Just press “Add to Chrome” on the Chrome Web Store.
2Pin it to the toolbar
Open the extensions button (the puzzle piece) at the top right of Chrome and pin Copy & Prep. What you have collected is listed right there, with the count, ready to copy in one go. Drop a single item with the “×” on its row, or everything with “Clear all”.
3Review in the settings tab
Use "Open settings" in the popup, or "Options" in the Chrome extensions menu. Reviewing, editing, reordering and the output settings all live here.
4Tidy up, then copy all
Compare the before and the after in "Tidy up", apply it if you agree, then press "Copy all".
There are only two surfaces: the toolbar popup and the settings tab. The settings tab opens by itself the first time you install it.
PRIVACY
The privacy promise
What you collect are fragments of what you were reading. That is why this extension never takes them anywhere.
Your collection and your settings stay in this browser. Nothing syncs.
It handles only the text you explicitly added with the right-click menu. Page content is never scanned.
Where data is stored
The selected text, the edited body, the page title, the URL, the date added and your output settings are kept in chrome.storage.local. chrome.storage.sync is not used, so nothing travels to another browser or device.
What is never stored
Whole pages or page bodies, browsing history, clipboard history, images, screenshots and files. No usage analytics, telemetry or crash reports either.
Network activity
None. It holds no network permissions and loads no external API, CDN, font or image. This is not just a claim: the release build statically checks the shipped sources and fails if any of it appears.
Permissions it needs
Exactly three: contextMenus, storage and activeTab. No host permissions (access to all sites) and no content scripts are requested. activeTab is used only at the instant you run the context-menu item, to read that tab title and URL — never to read page content or run scripts.
Frequently asked questions
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Before you start
The privacy promise and the rules of use are set out in the documents below.