For Students
Research that actually stays saved.
Stop losing work to broken links and closed tabs.
You spend hours finding the right sources. Then your browser crashes, the page goes down, or your tab history disappears. Backdrop saves every source with a timestamp and clean text, so your bibliography is bulletproof and your notes survive semester to semester.
One-click save from anywhere
The browser extension archives any page in seconds. Keep researching without losing momentum.
Clean readable text
Automatically strips ads and navigation, leaving you with just the article text for clean reading and citation.
Annotations and highlights
Add notes directly to archived pages. Your annotations travel with the source, not in a separate doc.
Project collections
Organize sources by paper, class, or semester. Never dig through browser history again.
Shareable collections
Share your source list with study groups or professors. Public or private — your choice.
Permanent archive
Sources archived today are available years from graduation. Build a knowledge base that follows your career.
How it works
Find a source worth keeping
Any article, Wikipedia page, journal abstract, or government report.
Archive with one click
The extension captures HTML, screenshot, PDF, and readable text automatically.
Add your notes
Annotate the page with why it's relevant. Notes are searchable later.
Cite with confidence
Every archive has a capture date and original URL. Your citations don't break.
“I was citing a news article in my thesis when the link died. My advisor would have failed me. Thank god I had it saved on Backdrop — the archive had everything, including the timestamp.”
Never lose a source again
Free for students. Build a research archive that outlasts any single semester.
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