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Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 25, 2012 at 05:59 PM
Mitchell Kastner wrote:
>And what do you do with them after you have pasted them into CT? Does CT export to a
>wordprocessing program?
CT doesn’t export directly into a wordprocessing program (it can export as .txt, .html, .chm and .xml), although copy-and-paste into Word works fine for me.
It sounds like our research needs/processes are quite different. I don’t really have a need for massive export from Surfulater. It is a database for my bookmarks and an archive for web clippings and some web pages saved in their entirety. Out of 1000s of links and clippings I will only ever need to transfer a handful of clippings (copy-and-paste) and some screenshots to serve as quotes and illustration for my main text that I develop in CT. As for MS Word, I only use that for the final cosmetic step of preparing the final report/paper for academic consumption (adding EndNote references), formatting text, and printing.
>No to take issue with SZ, I would never do so, but I would
>welcome Goliath mounting the shoulders of David to perfect a one-stop tool to
>capture, store, organize, and then ulitmately to export content. (...) moving among four or five information processors strikes me
>as a trifle inefficient.
I have given up on finding a super-tool like that. I have doubts whether there will ever be one (that will please me anyway :) I prefer to have a separate but perfect tool for each step and arrange them together myself, rather than having one tool that is great for 3 of the steps but poor with the other 2.
Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 25, 2012 at 06:04 PM
Having said all this, I’m quite satisfied with Surfulater as a basic tool for capturing web pages and their content and storing them in a hierarchical system. However its analytical capabilities are meagre. The full price ($79) seems quite a lot for what it does, and even 50% off is probably a bit expensive. On the other hand I’ve used it for years and never had any problems, so it’s pretty reliable.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jun 25, 2012 at 11:23 PM
Mitchell Kastner wrote:
>I would welcome Goliath mounting the shoulders of David to perfect a one-stop tool to
>capture, store, organize, and then ulitmately to export content.
I think that there are different meanings to “exporting” content. Both ConnectedText and Surfulater provide very good HTML export, which effectively means a portable website of your organised content. In the case of Surfulater you also get a full tree to navigate through the content.
It also depends on the format of the content you want to capture. If it is in a large number of individual files of different types in various folders, a tool like UltraRecall might be more convenient. In this case, “export” would consist of re-creating the original folder/file structure.
Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 27, 2012 at 01:01 AM
Surfulater sale is on today:
http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/surfulater/
Posted by jimspoon
Jun 27, 2012 at 06:06 AM
I wish BDJ would get rid of the annoying animation of the “drop” in price ... the BDJ sometimes takes a while to load and I have to wait too long to see what the sale price is!