UltraRecall and WebResearch

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Posted by TonyJ
Aug 19, 2008 at 11:51 PM

I’m using both of these programs, WebResearch for web capture and UltraRecall for everything else. I’m a bit surprised with my results from using WebResearch with Firefox.

When WebResearch is run with Firefox, it captures by using the Scrapbook extension. I want to link an item in UltraRecall to one of the captured web pages in WebResearch. I’ve got my UltraRecall database at a folder within MyDocuments and everything I want to link to is further down that same folder path. This will allow me to copy that folder and all subfolders and I then have the complete database which can be moved from computer to computer.

Assuming I have the above right, here’s the problem. I import the WR://etc. address into UltraRecall as a file. When I go to open that document it does so in Firefox and the listed source is where Scrapbook has stored the data, i.e. C:\Users\Name\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\qaogl1w1.default\ScrapBook\data\etc. I thought that I was linking to a file within the WebResearch collection. Doesn’t this mean that if I move the MyDocuments folder, I won’t be getting any of the web captures I made using WebResearch?

Any thoughts on how to get all the data stored in the MyDocuments folder path? Do I need to use IE?

Posted by Ken Ashworth
Aug 21, 2008 at 01:48 PM

I’m just guessing, I’m not running either of these programs.

Does Web Research store the actual captured webpage (or snippet) within itself, or does it just link to something that is created by Scrapbook?

If WR is storing the webpage, then it may be opening a temp copy when triggered by the UR link - similar to what UR does with stored web pages. If the WR database were in the path for the UR database I would suspect that this would continue to work on another machine (as long as UR and WR were present).

Maybe post the question on the UR board.

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