Which is best at saving Web pages?

Posted by Ike Washington
Jul 10, 2007 at 11:54 PM

Jan Rifkinson wrote:
>How does Scrapbook stack up w these results?
> >Yes, it’s true that Net Snippets is not
>being developed any more but it woks quite well for what is being discussed in this
>thread.

From the right-hand panel in my Firefox browser, Scrapbook displays a perfect copy of an Orbitz.com search result.

I can add notes and highlights to the page. I can get rid of sections I don’t want. I can combine the page with other pages, move it to other Scrapbooks. Not bad for a free application. The search is so-so, getting slower as the data increases since it doesn’t index first. I use dt search here so this isn’t an issue for me.

Net Snippets - never really used it to save whole pages. I remember some pages looking not quite right. I used it to store extracts taken from files already on my hard drive. Since development stopped, I’ve switched to Surfulater and EverNote for this.

I do miss Net Snippet pro’s outputting abilities. Add your own logo, create design templates, get html documents of your research project which look good in a business setting.

And since it launched as a left-hand panel on my screen, I had a pretty nifty work flow: copy articles, pdfs into Firefox Scrapbook on the left, work in a wiki in the center, send finished work over to Net Snippets on the right. Pity it’s not being developed any further; but it’s fine for storing odds and ends.

Ike