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Save and Annotate Your Web Searches

July 11th, 2007 @ 3:19 pm

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Categories: Documents, Time-Savers, Web Tools

Tags: Web, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Search, Web Site, David Goldenberg

scrapbook1.jpgWhen I come across websites that contain important information for whatever I’m working on at the time, I’ll often bookmark the pages or sometimes just leave them open for later. Often, though, by the time I’m ready to return to them, I’ve lost my train of thought or can’t find exactly what I’m looking for.

But now that I’ve downloaded the free ScrapBook extension in my Firefox browser, I can highlight particular website passages and even make notes in the margins before saving them to my hard drive. That means that I can decipher my earlier thoughts, plus send meaningful links to colleagues.

Plus, it’s a pretty useful way to save sites you want to make sure to check out later, even if you don’t feel the need to write on them.

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    BizHacksRick

    07/11/07 | Report as spam

    Try Clipmarks, too

    Great tip! I've long been a fan of using Clipmarks for similar purposes.

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    gschaadt

    07/19/07 | Report as spam

    Clipmarks v. Scrapbook

    I use both extensively. Clipmarks is great for sharing snippets with colleagues, but I find that I run up against the size limitations frequently.

    Scrapbook is fantastic for keeping track of those things you need for yourself. I'm 4 weeks from wrapping up my MBA studies, and I have relied heavily on Scrapbook throughout the program.

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    mbryan@...

    07/19/07 | Report as spam

    Web Research

    Personally I could not live without Web Research from Macropool

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