Re: An Addition to the List

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Posted by zeoli
2005-01-06 21:23:30

> For importing web material, it offers an approach I haven’t seen or at least noticed elsewhere. You can type in the url, and it will import the corresponding web page directly into the program in compressed form. You can import to a general repository for later classification or to any point in the tree. I’m curious—will Zoot! do that?

To my knowledge, Zoot can’t do that… although I’ve frequently found that Zoot is able to do something that I had previously thought it couldn’t. It’s kind of a surprising program due to the former lack of documentation, and to the gazillion features the developer has built into it. As you know, Zoot only stores raw text, and it is pretty good at extracting text from a whole web page or just what I highlight. It automatically saves the URL within the created note for easily returning to the page if the need arises. As long as I don’t care about the graphics or links in a web page, the Zoot approach works fine. I used to use MyBase to haul in the complete web pages, but find that I rarely need anything beyond the text. If a particular graphic catches my attention, I clip it with OneNote… which I am becoming more fond of.

Steve Z.

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