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Posted by Chris Murtland
Dec 12, 2018 at 06:39 AM
Another cool thing you can do in Ultra Recall is drag a URL from the address bar into the database but not actually store the page in the database. This is basically just a bookmark, but it still will be indexed and the page text is even highlighted in searches. Warning: I’ve found that the URL when clipping selected portions of a page to UR is no longer correct in the latest versions of Firefox. It still works correctly from Chrome and Vivaldi. Another benefit to UR is the clips can have custom metadata (properties or attributes) applied to them and thus allow for very fine-grained and geeky organization.
The InfoQube clipper is good. If you choose to save in MHT format, you can use the free BlockNote program to edit the clips. Similar to UR, since the clips are associated with IQ items, you get the properties and attributes here as well.
If capture fidelity is less important than getting the information into a more structured form, I actually like the ConnectedText and CrossLine methods of import, where headings are recreated from the captured material’s HTML structure. CT can require quite a bit of clean-up, however, so it makes more sense for information you are really likely to use rather than good old kitchen sink hoarding. It’s cool when you clip a long paper or essay to CT and have an automatically created table of contents, collapsible headings, etc.
Posted by washere
Dec 12, 2018 at 03:40 PM
4 categories:
1) Web page savers & archivers, part of but don’t think it’s the whole of what OP wants.
2) Clipboard apps, some are multimedia, several good ones, not exactly what’s asked for.
3) Outliner apps with multimedia web elements, not exactly either.
4) Readers add-ons for browser, for offline, seems to be what is used for by OP, wanting a modern one with all the bells & whistles she knows is out there, as in links below.
Before that:
+ Might want to add Chrome browser use next to Firefox as many of us do, Chrome has become a beast and can’t be ignored for future
+ Might want to get a good Dark reader add-on so can read longer in comfort without killing the eyes, “DARK Reader” add-on is on both chrome and Firefox
+ Might want to get a Chromebook, Chrome OS environment in effect also an Android tablet + long battery, slim, light, keyboard etc. Pixel is expensive, Samsung Pro slightly less, third best: Asus C302CA can be had used cheap(ish) on eBay. Has many uses, look at YouTube videos.
The off-line web READER plugins genre, take your pick, choose one that saves, as you stipulate, although Google cache (little arrow next to Google results) and archive.org have about half of dead web pages:
https://www.google.com/search?&q=firefox+addons+reader
https://www.google.com/search?&q=chrome+addons+reader
Might want to look at Google images for each reader too.
Posted by Wojciech
Dec 12, 2018 at 07:49 PM
Daly de Gagne wrote:
I can’t agree with you regarding Evernote. Here’s why: Almost a year ago
>I discovered EN on my phone - which I use for most of my web saving -
>was no longer downloading full pages as it always used to do. I was just
>getting the link and a title. I had not changed any settings.So I asked
>EN if they could fix problem - they couldn’t. And I was paying for
>premuum.
Strange. I have no problems on my iPhone - all webpages are saved as usual.
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Dec 13, 2018 at 02:15 PM
You’re fortunate. I have found no way to again get Evernote to down a complete page. I am using a Samsung And phone. What phone do you use?
Daly
Wojciech wrote:
>
>Daly de Gagne wrote:
>I can’t agree with you regarding Evernote. Here’s why: Almost a year ago
>>I discovered EN on my phone - which I use for most of my web saving -
>>was no longer downloading full pages as it always used to do. I was
>just
>>getting the link and a title. I had not changed any settings.So I asked
>>EN if they could fix problem - they couldn’t. And I was paying for
>>premuum.
>
>Strange. I have no problems on my iPhone - all webpages are saved as
>usual.
Posted by Wojciech
Dec 13, 2018 at 07:24 PM
Daly de Gagne wrote:
You’re fortunate. I have found no way to again get Evernote to down a
>complete page. I am using a Samsung And phone. What phone do you use?
Hi Daly,
I use iPhone SE with the newest IOS and save complete pages literally every day. Then I review them from time to time on my desktop computer. For me, it’s very convenient and productive.
Best,
W.