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news group snippet collection software wanted - free
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Posted by Graham Smith
Sep 2, 2006 at 06:56 PM
I was speaking to someone the other day who collects snippets from a software support news group and pastes them into a word file so she can search for them later, including bits of prgramming code.
Now I am aware of many “paid for” tools that would be better for this than word, but can anyone suggest a free program that she should try. Something with a clipboard feature would seem appropriate.
My mind seems a complet blank on this at the moment.
Thanks,
Graham
Posted by Chris Murtland
Sep 2, 2006 at 10:32 PM
If this is a newsgroup that can be browsed via the web, she could try the free Scrapbook extension for Firefox:
http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/
Chris
Posted by Graham Smith
Sep 2, 2006 at 11:49 PM
Yes, a reasonable suggestion, but I think she is tied to MSIE and some will be mailing lists. And as I wasn’t thinking in terms of a browser based solution I didn’t make it explicit that this will also act as repository for other snippets of information some of which will be typed in.
Graham
Chris Murtland wrote:
>If this is a newsgroup that can be browsed via the web, she could try the free Scrapbook
>extension for Firefox:
>
>http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/
>
>Chris
>
Posted by Derek Cornish
Sep 5, 2006 at 06:23 PM
Graham -
How about NoteBox Disorganizer, the Squirrel Technologies program that was discussed on outliners.com last year (I think). It’s at:
http://www.geocities.com/goosnargh37/NDC.html
It’s described as “a spreadsheet-style note collection program” - quirky, but/and people seemed to like it.
Derek
Posted by Graham Smith
Sep 5, 2006 at 07:49 PM
Derek,
I must admit, that I was thinking more of Treepad Lite or NeoMem, nether of which I could remember the name of when I originally posted. But I was hoping for something with a capture from clipboard option.
Thanks,
Graham