Outliners as web collectors: a test with Wikipedia

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Posted by Anthony
Jul 26, 2018 at 06:09 PM

Just curious to know if other members have done similar tests and with what kind of success.

I tried to copy/paste into the following outliners an excerpt from Wikipedia with math&text;.
For instance the first paragraph of this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkins–Simon_condition

Admittedly the test was done with a venerable OS: WinXP on PC (BTW three days ago this site started giving error certificate with IE8!) and with Firefox 52. Some outliners were tested also with Win10. I would be interested what happens to the Mac too.

Result A: collects text but A1: unable to show correctly math formulas or A2: not showing them at all
....ConnectedText -> A2 (tried also with Win10: same result)
....RightNote -> A1 (tried also with Win10: same result)
....MyBase -> A1 (attempts to download formulas as image, without success)
....Ultrarecall -> A1

Result B: Collects text AND math formulas correctly:
....WizNote (v.4.2, local save) (formulas where correctly turned into images)

Posted by Paul Korm
Jul 26, 2018 at 08:19 PM

Pasting on macOS

Outlinely—gibberish
Bear—gibberish
Typora—a little less gibberish, but nevertheless not useful
TextEdit—the worst, unreadable
Word—text is in the right places—math symbols are missing
Curio—about the same result as Typora

... that said, what editor would I expect to work correctly?

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 27, 2018 at 08:46 AM

Well, good for Wiznote, I say.

Posted by Anthony
Jul 27, 2018 at 12:15 PM

Result B: Collects text AND math formulas correctly:
.....also
....Zotero 4.x as full Add-on of Firefox (old 32)

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