A word on Surfulater (today on Bits du Jour)

Posted by Derek Cornish
May 27, 2007 at 07:38 PM

alx -

>As a sideline, I have the impression that it will make more and more sense to maintain material segmented in specialised repositories, accessing it from a central location, so this kind of URL linking is something I am increasingly looking for.

Web Research may have what you want http://www.macropool.com/en/ . It is in many respects similar to Surfulater, but has been around somewhat longer (it used to be called ContentSaver).

You can copy the URL-like address of any of WR’s documents (htm, pdf, doc, etc) - using Ctrl+Shift+W - to any external software that can handle these types of hyperlinks. Then you can summon the document in question for viewing from that external software. Zoot, for example, can “read” WR’s addresses, as can UltraRecall (I think*) - and, no doubt, many other information management programs.

WR works with IE and Firefox (with a free add-in), and also has an Outlook add-in ($15) to make it easier to save emails etc., from within Outlook to WR.

*So far I haven’t been able to open UR’s editor to find out. After years of puzzling out Zoot my patience with poorly-documented programs is minimal…

Derek