Re: Web knowledge management tools

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Posted by sub
2005-03-29 05:56:46

Jack

I take a completely different route depending on what I want to do; for example, I often download customers’ complete websites on my disk using WinHTTrack to have rapid access to info on them. After the project’s finished, I erase them.

I also created a few infobases of selected webpages with Mybase, which I found quite convenient thanks to the WebCollect add-on; however, files tend to get too big too quickly. Similar add-ons exist for other information managers but the results are similar.

UltraRecall imports every webpage separately through its own interface, but I find this slow and inconvenient. The ideal for me when collecting information is to do it straight from the relevant application, in this case the browser. Mozilla Firefox has some very useful plug-ins, such as CopyURL.

Couple this to Brainstorm’s Magic Paste (for text) or an able clipboard manager (for full pages) and I think you’ve covered most applications. The latter in particular have evolved to fully fledged information managers; the beta version of ClipCache, for example, uses a SQL database to keep clippings.

alx

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