Save links

Drag, drop, done — and three other ways when dragging is awkward.

Drag a tab into the panel

Drag a tab, or the address from the address bar, onto the panel:

On a group — the link is filed there.
Anywhere else — it goes to the Inbox, unless one of your rules knows where it belongs.

There is no dialog. Then close the tab; that is the point.

Other ways

⌥⇧S saves the current tab. You can change the shortcut in the browser’s extension settings.
Right-click → Save to Waypoint, on a page or on a link. The submenu lets you pick a group directly; Save (its group, by rules, or Inbox) lets Waypoint decide.
The desktop window accepts links dragged from any browser: drop on a group in the sidebar, or onto the open group.

Some browsers do not let you drag tabs out of the tab bar. Use the address bar, ⌥⇧S or right-click there.

Saving into the group you picked

Click a group in the panel to select it (blue frame). The next save goes there.

Save for later

For what you want to read or watch, but not now: the clock button next to “Save this tab”, ⌥⇧L, right-click → Save to Waypoint → Later, dropping a tab on “Later” while dragging, or Save for later in the field at the top of the Inbox (app and web app).

Each link in Later stays 90 days. The days left are at the end of its row — amber in the last 3 days, red on the last day. +7 days gives one link a week more, once.
Move it into a group (drag, Move to…, or its editor) and it stays for good — only Later has expiry dates.
When the days run out, the link leaves Later and waits under Expired, with Back to Later. After a year it is deleted. Saving it again tells you that you had it before.
A macOS notification the day before links expire.
Settings › General › Later: the number of days, how long expired links are kept, the notification, or switch Later off. These apply on all your devices; while Later is off, its days stop counting.
Rules never file into Later — it fills up only by hand.

Close the tab after saving

Off by default. Switch it on in Settings › General › Close the tab after saving; it applies in every browser.

The same link twice

Saving a link you already have does not create a copy. It adds the group to the existing link, so one link can live in several groups.

What Waypoint adds by itself

After saving, the app fetches the page’s icon and its own short description. Both make links easier to recognise, and the description is searchable, so even a link without topics is found.