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Your Information in ?The Cloud? ? Safe, Secure, Available or Not?
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Posted by Neville Franks
Dec 19, 2010 at 09:57 PM
I have just written a blog post “Your Information in ?The Cloud? ? Safe, Secure, Available or Not?” at http://blog.surfulater.com/2010/12/20/your-information-in-the-cloud-safe-secure-available-or-not/ which I thought may interest some here.
Also for the first time ever we’ve got a Surfulater 50% Xmas discount offer available. Do tell your friends, family and colleagues. Visit http://www.surfulater.com and click on the Xmas Special image at top right of the page.
Merry Xmas to all,
Neville
Posted by Jack Crawford
Dec 20, 2010 at 12:39 AM
Thanks Neville
I haven’t used Surfulater for quite a while and will take advantage of your Christmas special to give it another run.
I have been using OneNote reasonably successfully so far as my general capture tool.
If you were pitching for Surfulater, what would you describe as the main benefits of Surfulater over OneNote?
Jack
Posted by JasonE
Dec 20, 2010 at 04:58 AM
>If you were pitching for Surfulater, what would you describe as the main benefits of Surfulater over OneNote?
I think that I am qualified to say something here, as I use both every day.
I don’t use Surfulater as general capture tool. So I can’t address it from that angle.
I use Surfulator for web-based research. For that task, it is much more useful to me than OneNote.
Getting web-based info into Surfulator is much slicker than OneNote.
I can grab it in a form that makes sense for the particular piece of information. If it is something that changes a lot, like a forum, I’ll just bookmark it. If I find a particular fact that I have been looking for, I can highlight the paragraph of interest and grab that along with the book mark. If it is a page that I do not think will be sticking around, or is so valuable that I don’t want to lose it, or is something that I am following over time (i.e. monitoring of a business competitors website), I can grab the whole page onto my hard drive.
And all this is just a right-clock away.
Once the info is in Surfulator, the knowledge-base-> hierarchical-tree-> rolling-tape structure is simply more efficient and useful for me than OneNote’s “trapper-keeper” style structure.
Hope that’s useful.
I intend to try Surfulator out for organizing pfd’s soon.
JasonE
Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 20, 2010 at 05:50 AM
>I intend to try Surfulator out for organizing pfd’s soon.
Jason,
What do you mean by organising PDFs and how would you use Surfulater for that?
doctorandus
Posted by JasonE
Dec 21, 2010 at 12:28 AM
>What do you mean by organising PDFs and how would you use Surfulater for that?
Organizing PDFs = Put them some place in a fashion that will allow me to find a particular PDF again, or provide the ability to look over them and see what I have available on a given topic.
I started trying Surfulator out for this today.
This is my work flow:
Open PDF, copy title. Close PDF.
Make a new article (texts and authors version) in a relevant folder in Surfulator.
Paste title into “title” field.
Drag and drop PDF file into “attachments” field.
Surfulator asks if I want to paste or make link.
I tell it to paste.
Move the copy of the PDF in the original folder into the waste basket. (This step would probably not be necessary
if I cut/paste PDF in rather than drag/drop it in)
Add whatever keywords or notes that are appropriate.
Repeat with next PDF…
I think this is going to meet my needs just fine. I can tell already that it is slicker then OneNote for this. I wish that I could post screen captures here. The PDFs fit in Surfulator much tidier than in OneNote.
Final note: I do not mean for my posts on this thread to be hating on OneNote. I like OneNote a lot and use it extensively.
JasonE