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Posted by jbaltsar
Dec 11, 2018 at 08:34 PM

Hi there,
I’m a long time CRIMPer, but mostly I’m lurking in the background here in the forum.

One thing I’m still looking for is the perfect program (for Windows) for storing large to huge amounts of web clippings or whole web pages for offline reading and storage (you never know when a web page will go offline, or a page will change substantially).

At the moment I’m using
a) the old Firefox plugin ScrapBook X from within the Firefox fork Pale Moon: it’s robust (I have have some 1800 pages stored in one scrapbook and you don’t notice any slowing down), you can sort the web pages into a hierarchical tree, edit, annotate and clean up the page; there is no tagging and searching is somewhat primitive; still the best when I want to save a perfect copy of a web page)

b) RightNote: the web clipper is quite good, format survives mostly (but not always) intact, tagging and searching is good, but editing is sometimes quirky; slows down with growing database

So I’m still looking for the perfect replacement of these two programs: Scrapbook X is obsolete (doesn’t work with the new Firefox) although still working smoothly; with RightNote I’m not sure how much it can stomach in the long run.

Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot

Judith

Posted by Wojciech
Dec 11, 2018 at 09:10 PM

Try EverNote and its web clipper.
Best
Wojciech

Posted by mseliger
Dec 11, 2018 at 09:24 PM

I use ScrapBook X too with Pale Moon (and I don’t want to change it as long as this extension works for me - my main notes archive has about 3000 pages). You might try also the free, opensource Joplin Notebook which stores the data in markdown format and which has clients for windows, linux, macos, android. There is also a webextension for Firefox to capture pages (or selection of pages). The program is under active development. There are several solutions how to sync your notes between different devices.

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin

Another solution is Zotero, a bibliographic and notes manager, which is also free. The last version works with Firefox. The disadvantage of Zotero is that you can only capture full websites - not selections of text etc.

https://www.zotero.org/

Posted by jbaltsar
Dec 11, 2018 at 09:46 PM

I discovered Joplin just a few days ago and I’m still evaluating it. The clipping works quite fine (you have to some tidying up afterwards) but for more complex pages this may not be optimal and I miss folders and sub-folders.

Zotero I have on my disk but didn’t use it for some time; must give it another try.

Cheers

Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Dec 11, 2018 at 10:17 PM

jbaltsar wrote:
>One thing I’m still looking for is the perfect program (for Windows) for storing large to huge amounts of web clippings or whole web pages for offline reading and storage (you never know when a web page will go offline, or a page will change substantially).

Hi,

It seems like a perfect fit for InfoQube:
1- It has a Universal Clipper (page sections or whole pages) which works on all browsers
2- Supports EmailToIQ to send content from mobile devices, or anytime IQ is not running
3- Storage is using a relational database engine, so performance if not affected by size

Pierre Paul Landry
InfoQube Designer
http://www.infoqube.biz

p.s. You know about the Wayback machine ? Very useful…
https://archive.org/web/

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