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Posted by jbaltsar
Dec 16, 2018 at 01:02 PM
Hi there,
sorry for being silent for a few days, life is somewhat busy lately.
And thanks for all your replys, I will comment on some of them.
re: Clibu, Evernote Pocket etc
Call me oldfashioned, but somehow I don’t like online or cloud solutions; these things come and go, they change their business plan or vanish althogether. I have half a ton of data in a program called InfoRapid which stopped being developed some 15 years ago. But it’s still working and migrating the program to a new computer simply means copying the programs folder - I like this type of robust thing.
re: DevonThink and Mac
yeah, feels tempting sometimes, but will not happen anytime soon.
re: Joplin
I kind of like this program, it seems promising, but in some areas it is still somewhat limited; e.g. there doen’t seem to be a way to mass import all my old notes, which would come as rtf or html files. And without a true tree structure to sort away masses of notes I can’t say how useful Joplin will be in the long run
For the time being I will probably stick to a combination of ScrapBook X and RightNote: ScrapBook for quickly capturing web pages, RightNotes to archive those I want to keep (there is even an import option in RightNote for ScrapBook data!).
Thanks again
Judith
Posted by Graham Rhind
Dec 16, 2018 at 05:24 PM
I don’t know which Inforapid program you’re using but their software is definitely still being updated: http://www.buildyourmap.de
jbaltsar wrote:
> I have half a ton of data in a program called
>InfoRapid which stopped being developed some 15 years ago. But it’s
>still working and migrating the program to a new computer simply means
>copying the programs folder - I like this type of robust thing.
Posted by Slartibartfarst
Dec 21, 2018 at 12:50 PM
I still miss Scrapbook.
Apart from recommending IQ (e.g., in line with above comments from PPL), I would suggest you could also consider saving webpages as .mhtml files.
There would thus no longer be any need for Scrapbook or (say) Zotero’s proprietary and similar access to those webpages - mhtml we pages should be able to be read by any half-decent file browser or html reader.
To some extent, IQ could make up for there being no folder/categorisation tool to match Scrapbook’s, in a browser, but though IQ will be OK for saving web pages, it probably won’t be able to do the simultaneous nested page AND linked .ZIp and other file content saving AND note/text-editing that Scrapbook does.
I would also mention WDS (Windows Desktop Search} and GDS {Google Desktop Search) in this context, as they can search the content of these mhtml files, so the files don’t need to be kept in a proprietary database or database format. The disk thus becomes the database. There are some tools out there that work in a collaborative fashion with that database - one notable example is Folder Viewer from MatirSoft -
, which I am currently trying to get my head around. It is not a toy. It incorporates/collaborates with the IE browser (as far as I understand it, at present) and various file viewers. It also collaborates with GDS, if that is detected on installation (I have it installed). GDS is arguably probably still the best desktop search tool on the planet, bar none. Folder Viewer does lots of other stuff as well. This seems to make it potentially a most promising data management and inspection tool. Not sure yet. Still trialling it (is $FREE).