I've been moving more and more towards conventional text files saved locally, but synced through things like dropbox, nextcloud, etc. (so that they're available

I've been moving more and more towards conventional text files saved locally, but synced through things like dropbox, nextcloud, etc. (so that they're available wherever i am). However, a bad habit that i have is that my reflex is to search online for something first, instead of first doing a desktop search of local files. Also, recently i've found myself saving a PDF version of webpages more and more in order to archive the content. I really dislike - no, i hate - PDFs...but trying to archive html content is annoying nowadays. Ok, so if i use wget or curl or even manually "save as..." from a web browser, the snapshot comes with so much junk - a simple html file balloons into a larger-than-should-be file (and associated folder) because it has all the content plus loads of javascript and other crap. When i want to archive stuff, i only want the content, the metadata (title, author, publication date, etc.), and nothing else - maybe the imagery if its essential to the content. It did seem that for a time - maybe a few years ago - web page articles did have CSS that stripped away some/most of the ad crap when you print - or at least "save to PDF" - which made downloads/archives of the content at least a little smaller, if not at least cleaner to view...but, not seeing much of that anymore.