How to save products from any website
Everyone solves this badly at first, usually with whatever is closest to hand. Here is what each method is genuinely good for, and the point at which it stops working.
The five things people actually do
Browser bookmarks
Good for Free, instant, already on every device you own, and they never expire.
Falls down A bookmark is a URL and a page title. No price, no image, no way to see twelve of them side by side — and no warning when the page behind it is gone.
The shop's own wishlist
Good for Best possible data, because the shop owns it: real stock, real price, real variants.
Falls down It only knows its own shop. Six shops means six wishlists and six accounts, and comparing across them means comparing from memory.
Screenshots
Good for Captures exactly what you saw, including a price that later changed.
Falls down A screenshot is not a link. Months later you have a photo of a sofa and no way back to it.
A note or a spreadsheet
Good for Total control. Add a column for anything you care about — room, who is paying, whether it has been decided.
Falls down Every row is typed by hand, and nothing updates itself. This is the method that works well for a week.
A universal cart
Good for One place across every shop, with the title, price and image filled in for you, and totals that mean something.
Falls down Another account. And the extraction is a best guess — unusual product pages sometimes need correcting by hand.
How to choose between them
If everything you want is from one shop, use that shop's wishlist — nothing else will have better data. If you are collecting from many shops, or comparing options across them, or deciding with somebody else, that breaks down and you need something that sits above the shops.
The honest test is whether you need a total. The moment you want to know what all of it adds up to, bookmarks and notes are finished.
Doing it with Tote
Paste the link
Tote fetches the page and fills in the title, price, image and retailer. Correct anything it got wrong.
Or save while browsing
The Chrome extension saves the product page you are on without leaving it.
Or ask an assistant
With Tote connected to ChatGPT or Claude, describing something is enough to put it in a cart.
Sort it once it exists
Split things into separate carts, or save for later the ones you are not deciding on yet.
Buying still happens at the shop. Tote has no checkout and never takes payment — it holds the intent, not the transaction.
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One cart for every shop you buy from. Free, and it works on the web, your phone and in Chrome.
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