Re: Surfulater

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Posted by jjshields
2005-11-11 10:33:30

I have used several of these apps. Here’s my history & comments:

NetSnippets:
Started with NetSnippets.

+ Is it easy to add new content to an existing snippet.

- The program does not index nor can you search your content. The search engine only searches for keywords, comments… but not the content. This was a deal breaker for me and I moved on.

Onfolio:

+Integrates into browser….

-Integrates into browser…. at first I thought this was a good idea. but after a while, I had too much content and I felt the need for more “real estate” and looked for a stand-alone app.

Evernote:

Nice idea…. But never warmed up the paradigm of an endless roll of paper. I wanted more order.

Surfulater:

+Nice stand alone app.

+Ability to have multiple knowledge bases open at one time.

+Like the tabs for each knowledge base…. nice!

+Liked the idea of viewing all the content in a folder at once.

-Capturing a whole web page is not perfect.

-Maybe I’m doing something wrong, but it seems like it is more focused at capturing parts of the page… not the entire page. For me, I’m more interested in grapping the whole page… But I’m sure for lots of people who are doing research, Surfulater is the perfect tool.
?Don’t know if you can mark-up saved content???

ContentSaver:

+Nice interface

+Captures whole pages & snippets with ease

+Solid

+Can mark-up content

-A little slow

-Can’t view all the content in the folder at once.

Right now, I’m happy with ContentSaver…

-jj

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