LinkCleanHow to save a clean Markdown link in Obsidian or Notion (iPhone)
Save web links into Obsidian, Notion, Bear or Logseq as clean `[Title](URL)` Markdown — with the trackers stripped first — in one tap from the iPhone share sheet.
Ken Tominaga · Updated 2026-07-22
Personal-knowledge-management apps — Obsidian, Notion, Bear, Logseq, Craft — keep links forever. That makes them the worst place for a dirty link: a tracker you'd shrug off in a group chat becomes a permanent record in your notes, and it travels every time you re-share or publish that note.
Raw links also look bad in Markdown. A YouTube or news share link dropped into a note renders as a long naked URL with a ?si=… or ?utm_source=… tail — no title, no context. The fix is to clean the link and wrap it in Markdown ([Title](URL)) at the same time. Here's the one-tap way on iPhone, plus the manual fallback.
Copy the link as clean Markdown from the share sheet
On any page or link, tap Share → "Copy link as…" and pick Markdown (it's a free format). LinkClean strips the trackers, then formats the result as
[Page Title](https://clean-url). Switch to Obsidian or Notion and paste — you get a titled, tracker-free Markdown link, not a naked URL.Paste straight into your note
In Obsidian, paste where you want the link — it renders the clickable title immediately because it's already Markdown. In Notion, pasting
[Title](URL)converts to Notion's own link inline. No editing, no typing the title by hand.Prefer your own format? Make a template (Pro)
If you want something other than
[Title](URL)— a callout, a quote block, or- [ ] Title — URLfor a task — LinkClean Pro's Copy Formats editor lets you define the template once. The cleaned link and the page title slot into your format every time.Manual fallback (without LinkClean)
Clean the link first (delete everything from the
?onward, refresh to confirm the page still loads), then in your note type[, paste the title,](, paste the URL,). It works — but it's four fiddly steps per link, and you have to recognize the trackers yourself.
Two things make the one-tap flow worth it for note-taking specifically. First, the title: LinkClean fetches the real page title, so you don't paste a naked URL or type the title by hand. Second, the catalog: a link you clip might carry utm_*, fbclid, si, mc_eid or any of dozens of trackers — LinkClean knows the whole set and strips them in one pass, so your vault stays clean without you auditing each link.
If you clip a lot from shortened links (t.co, bit.ly), turn on Short-Link Expansion in Settings — LinkClean follows the short link to the real page, then cleans and formats that, so you never archive a shortener that could rot or redirect later.
Skip the steps — LinkClean does it.
LinkClean strips tracking parameters from any link in one tap, from any app's share sheet. No account, on-device.
