Web Research -->> WOW!

Posted by Derek Cornish
Jul 4, 2007 at 10:52 PM

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Personally I think WR stands or falls on its merits as a web capture program. As you suggest, it is not a PIM - and, indeed, not designed to be. So - no templates, no reminders, etc. It does have “search templates”. To quote the Help file: “Web Research can save any search criteria that you entered in Advanced Find as a Search Template. Later, you can repeat the search based on the search criteria, or you can modify it.”

WR can add edit web pages, add comments, highlight, etc. htm files, add follow-up reminders - but these features work somewhat more straightforwardly when using IE than Firefox. I like the WR gui, which reminds me in some ways of Zoot’s 3 panes.

I also like UR, which I have registered in case Zoot32 does not happen. If Zoot32 DOES happen, then I’d expect that it would ultimately give UR a good run for its money and make web capture “helper programs” as a group a less attractive buy. That’s just my view - but the latter are busy adding Zoot and UR-like features, so presumably they think so too. (IMHO, of course).

Anyone interested in WR can d/l a trial. Macropool is a European (German, specifically) software company, so it has limited visibility over here - here, for me, being Kansas :-). This is the URL: http://www.macropool.com/en/products/index.html

There are a lot of pros and cons in relation to Surfulater, vs WR, Onflio and Net Snippets. For some people (e.g., running Firefox), a combination of Scrapbook and Zotero might be better.

Derek