How do you mark the internet as "finished"?

Posted by Wayne K
Oct 1, 2013 at 01:11 AM

MadaboutDana wrote:
I think I’ve understood the problem, and while I can’t pretend to be
>able to offer “the ultimate” solution, I’ve found the following approach
>useful.
> >I use the Windows version of Notebooks (by Alfons Schmid:
>notebooksapp.com) to copy and save web pages. Notebooks preserves the
>formatting of web pages almost unchanged, but also allows you to edit
>the pages (e.g. add comments,highlights, or even rewrite/reformat the
>things completely, etc.). So a typical Notebooks page consists of:
> >Title
>URL (pasted)
>Comments (by me)
>Tags (by me)
>Contents of web page (pasted)
> >This means that when I eventually read through the web page, I may
>decide to cut out bits that aren’t directly relevant to my interests
>(easy: just select and delete). Other pages I make “read-only”
>(Notebooks offers that facility) so I can’t change them (e.g. nice bits
>of writing I want to preserve for my future edification).
> >Notebooks automatically time-stamps pages anyway, and you can arrange
>them into folders. The actual pages are held as separate files (an HTML
>file plus a .plist file for each page, containing the index and
>references), and Notebooks automatically indexes them for searching (I
>have to say the iOS app’s search function is much better than the
>Windows client’s search function, but you can always use Windows Desktop
>Search or any other search app of your choice; I use Copernic, for
>example). Notebooks folders are thus actual folders in the file system,
>which makes Notebooks very “open”.
> >While this doesn’t obviate the issue of duplicate pages in particular,
>it does make it very easy to organize pages and delete them, annotate
>them (using highlights if you wish!), shove ‘em about wherever you want
>‘em, and so on. Although it’s a slightly lengthier process than using
>e.g. Surfulater or Scrapbook, I’ve found it’s more flexible - and unlike
>Surfulater, Notebooks supports full UTF-8 encoding, so is compatible
>with most languages. Finally, if you want to manipulate your web pages
>without reference to Notebooks, you can easily do so in the actual
>Windows file system (or on a Mac - Notebooks also has a MacOS client).
> >The Notebooks Windows client is currently free (because it’s still in
>beta). If you’ve got an iPad, you can synchronize easily via Dropbox
>(Notebooks defaults to Dropbox in any case); the cost of the iOS app is
>low (can’t remember what, exactly). Notebooks has, as a result of all
>the above, become my go-to information repository.

Do you have a link for this software? I’m afraid the name isn’t the best choice for marketing. I just spent ten minutes in Google trying every combination of “Notebooks”, “Windows”, and “Software” I could think of but was unable to find it.