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Posted by Daly de Gagne
Nov 30, 2006 at 10:40 AM

About three weeks ago I downloaded the latest version of Surfulater. I had tried the product some time ago, and for various reasons was not overly impressed. That’s all changed.
http://www.surfulater.com/

I am finding now that it beats even scrapbook—the ability to have clones or dynamic copies (or whatever you want to call them) so easily made and placed in the tree, is in itself very helpful.

Also, I find that of the different programs I have tried, Surfulater has surpassed them all in being able to capture the main headline as the subject of each new item saved to it.

Surfulater offers a variety of ways to capture web data—so is more flexiible than other programs.

I like the ability to add notes to items, as well as create stand-alone notes.

Daly

Posted by Neville Franks
Dec 3, 2006 at 08:45 PM

Daly, Thanks for revisiting Surfulater and posting on the outcome. From memory when you tried Surfulater last time you had problems with IE and other applications, including Surfulater not displaying content correctly. I assume that has been resolved now.

FYI the features you refer to including “the ability to have clones or dynamic copies” have been in Surfulater all along. Also make sure you try the ‘See Also’ links which enable you to add links between articles to build a web of related information. See Power Features|Creating Cross Reference links in the Help for more on this.

Many improvements have been and continue to be made along with the addition of new capabilities. Software development is unfortunately a fairly laborious undertaking and it takes time to get to where we want to be. Each new release gets us that bit closer. I am reasonably happy with Surfulater’s progress and steady stream of new releases but there is a lot more to do yet. The most important thing is ensuring our users are satisfied and that is definitely the case from the feedback we get. In fact Surfulater has become indispensable to many.

The next release will be out this week and includes some important new features including:

- A new Hotkey that enables you to append the contents of the Windows Clipboard to a Surfulater article. This lets you append content from within other applications and is in addition to the existing Hotkey that lets you create new articles inside other applications.

- The ability to drag and drop files from Windows Explorer and either attach them to an article or add links to them.

- Much easier to add links to external files from Articles.

- Improvements to the Knowledge base Tab Bar which let you drag and drop Tabs, close them and use a new context menu.

- Multiple file selection in File|Open, Attach Files, Link To files.

- You can now specify the Folder that is used for KB’s, Send To|HTML files and Send To|MHT file.

- More new keyboard shortcuts for folks that prefer using the keyboard.

- ... along with mandatory bug fixes.

Scrapbook is a good program, but Surfulater does a lot more and works with IE and Firefox. It also makes it easy to carry around your Knowledge Bases and efficiently handles large numbers of articles, unlike other programs.

Neville Franks, Permanently save anything you see on the web with Surfulater.

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