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Posted by Chris Thompson
Dec 13, 2018 at 07:39 PM
I agree with Listerene’s comment that DevonThink is particularly good at this. As is Evernote (surprisingly).
Two options that I’ve also found helpful and are a bit more cross-platform are: (1) web page simplification tools like Outline.com and Mercury Reader, and (2) the new generation of iOS-inspired clipping tools like Gladys.
If you’re having trouble storing a particularly complex web page, pulling it through Outline.com first and then clipping it usually works in any tool that has web clipping functionality. As a bonus, this also gets around a lot of newspaper paywalls.
The new generation of iOS-inspired clipping tools let you capture multiple representations of a web page’s content at the same time, behind the scenes. It looks like a single clipping, but it’s captured a variety of representations. Then you can bring in whatever format works best for that particular page (RTF, WebArchive, raw HTML, etc.) into whatever archival tool you’re using. You can use these as a kind of pre-processor for DevonThink, for example. Gladys shares its data on both iOS and MacOS, so you can clip something from your phone or iPad and figure out what do to with it later once you’re back at your desktop.
—Chris
Posted by jbp
Dec 13, 2018 at 08:04 PM
Anoter option is the excellent cross platform Notebooks app: https://www.notebooksapp.com
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Dec 13, 2018 at 08:08 PM
Chris Thompson wrote:
I agree with Listerene’s comment that DevonThink is particularly good at this
Folks, perhaps get back to the original poster’s request, where he said he was looking for Windows software…
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jbaltsar wrote:
One thing I’m still looking for is the perfect program (for Windows) for storing large to huge amounts of web clippings
Pierre
p.s.
I’d like to make a recommendation when creating new threads:
Prefix the title with the relevant OSs (such as [Win], [Mac], [iOS], [Android], [All], etc).
It would help all of us better focus and better manage our precious time. Just my 2 cents
Posted by mdlynam
Dec 14, 2018 at 02:08 PM
Would the Vivaldi browser’s built-in notes feature be of any use to the OP?
Posted by satis
Dec 14, 2018 at 02:54 PM
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>I’d like to make a recommendation when creating new threads:
>Prefix the title with the relevant OSs (such as [Win], [Mac], [iOS],
>[Android], [All], etc).
>It would help all of us better focus and better manage our precious
>time. Just my 2 cents
Or we could pay closer attention to the OP’s question!