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Cursor's bigger context window works best when you feed it clean Markdown research packs, not messy copied web pages.
The best Markdown workflow for AI is not one app. Use a real editor, a reliable web-to-Markdown clipper, and clean files your AI can read.
Pasting Stack Overflow into Cursor loses code language hints and mixes nav into prose. Cleaner workflow: convert to Markdown in the browser, then @-mention.
Obsidian Web Clipper is right for clipping into your vault. Web2MD is the missing companion for the moment between page and ChatGPT/Claude. How I run both.
The best Cursor research workflow is to save web sources as clean local Markdown, then @-mention them as reproducible project context.
Need Claude Code or Cursor to batch-convert webpages? Use Browser MCP for control and Web2MD for clean Markdown extraction.
Need Claude Code or Cursor to batch-convert webpages? Here is when to use Browser MCP, Chrome MCP, and Web2MD together.
Turn Stack Overflow, blog posts, and GitHub docs into clean Markdown research packs that Cursor can @-reference reliably.
Cursor's @-mention works on any text file in your repo. The bottleneck is getting outside research into a format Cursor can @ reference. The workflow.
Cursor needs context to be useful. The best context you have is the Claude conversation where you figured the problem out — but it's stuck behind a chat UI.
Firecrawl Extract is great, but $188/mo is wrong for solo RAG. Flip the architecture: extract inside Chrome with your session. Web2MD does it for $9.