Re: Web knowledge management tools

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Posted by graham.smith
2005-03-29 11:39:49

Well, as always it depends.

As I said before you can clip anything into Net snippets that you have copied to the clipboard, you can drag emails into it, you can drag files from explorer into, you can open an empty snippet and write text into it. And of course you can grab web pages, selections form web pages andnimages from web pages into it

You can organise data into a tree based folder and you can search the whole database or you can search an individual folder.

The search can be restricted to specific fields and you can add customised fields, but it doesn’t appear to support any boolean searches.

It is more useful as a general data store than I first thought, but I am not yet convinced that I want to use it that way.

As it uses standard HTMl, I can sync the Net Snippets folders with Zoot and search them and any text based information (stored in Zoot)from within Zoot. That is one of the joys of Zoot because it allows you to gather all sorts of data, from all sorts of places into one searchable database.

That is one of the reasons I went with Net Snippets, because of it using standard HTML to store its data.

Now of course I could do that by simply saving web pages into a Zoot directory, but Net snippets gives me several features that Zoot lacks.

Having said, out of laziness, I have already found myself dropping information into Net Snippets, which I would have previosly put into Zoot. Obviously, I am still working out how best to integrate everything.

Graham

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