Creating a Reference to a Webpage in Org

I was asked recently, "Do you use Org Mode protocol ... for browser to Emacs interaction? If so, were there any complications to set it up on Windows? Is there like bookmarklets for capturing or doing things?"¹

At the time I wasn't doing anything too fancy to incorporate Web Content into Org. I'd copy the URL from Vivaldi's address bar to the clipboard and (if applicable) the Web Content I'm interested in.² Then in Org, I'd yank the Web Content (if applicable), mark it and then do org-insert-link (C-c C-l) to turn it into a hyperlink. The marked text becomes what you see in the document. But I usually just specify the link Description simply as "LINK." In fact I created a macro (bound to the Insert key) to do this.

But I've started to use eww as my web browser for this. If I write something that I need to verify, I'll mark it and invoke eww-search-words (M-s M-w), which brings me to a DuckDuckGo page of search results. If I follow a search result that I like, I'll mark a small section and invoke org-store-link (C-c l) and create the link with org-insert-link, with the marked content as the Description. Thus org-store-link captures both the location and the context in one magical swoop. Here's an animated GIF that illustrates the process. Note that the video shows me capturing and referring to part of Sacha Chua's website that shows some neat solutions to launching a web browser from Emacs.³

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¹ Sacha Chua's Emacs Chat with Raymond Zeitler transcript. Please scroll to 35:50

² I use a clipboard manager so that I can copy content to the clipboard multiple times without clobbering all but the most recent item.

³ https://sachachua.com/blog/2025/07/emacs-open-urls-or-search-the-web-plus-browse-url-handlers/