Install Flylighter
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Flylighter is a browser extension available on the Chrome Web Store.
It lives up in your web browser's toolbar, where you can click it to easily run any of your Flows and capture any information on the page you're visiting.
As a Chrome extension, Flylighter is compatible with any Chromium-based web browser, including:
Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge (Thomas's pick)
Arc (Eli's pick)
Opera
Flylighter is currently in beta! Our small team actively develops and tests the extension primarily on Chrome, Edge, and Arc.
If you're part of our beta testing group and notice a bug on another supported browser, please let us know in our testing community. If you're not part of our beta and discovered this doc site on your own 😉, feel free to use this bug report form.
You can find and install Flylighter directly from the Chrome Web Store:
Currently, we've only published Flylighter in the Chrome Web Store. It's not yet on the Microsoft Edge Add-ons store, but you can install the Chrome Web Store version on Edge (and any other supported browser).
Once you've installed Flylighter, you may want to also pin it in your browser's toolbar by clicking the puzzle piece icon, then clicking the icon next to the Flylighter entry:
After you've installed Flylighter, go to any normal webpage that isn't a Chrome Web Store page – such as this very page, or this article on the PARA method of digital organization.
Click the Flylighter icon and then click Login with Notion to connect your Notion account.
Flylighter uses the official Notion API, so if you've used any other Notion-connected tools in the past, you'll likely be familiar with the next part!
First, choose the Notion workspace you'd like the connect – and don't worry, you can connect multiple others later!
Next, choose the pages and/or databases you'd like to connect to Flylighter. A few useful notes on this:
If you grant access to a page, any pages and databases inside that page will also be included (you can revoke permission to specific pages or databases later, directly in Notion).
You can give Flylighter access to other pages later directly in Notion by going to the ••• menu, then finding Flylighter in the Add Connections sub-menu.
If you want to be able to work with Relation properties that connect to separate databases, make sure you grant access to those databases too. Otherwise, Flylighter won't be able to see that those Relation properties even exist.
Tip from Thomas: I capture most things to my notes database in Ultimate Brain (my all-in-one productivity template for Notion), so I give Flylighter access to my entire Ultimate Brain page. That way, it gets access to all the databases it needed.
If you don't already have your own note-taking setup in Notion, you can use my free Ultimate Notes template, which is similar to Ultimate Brain's notes dashboard.
Note: If you give Flylighter access to a lot of databases, it can take a while to index them when you're setting up your first Flow. We're working on improving the performance of this process, but you can speed it up yourself by hand-picking only a few databases or pages.
Once you've connected your Notion account, you can create your first Flow. (Alternatively, you can watch our tutorial videos)
Flows are what you'll use to quickly capture web pages, articles, highlights, and more to Notion.
