Software for web clippings

Posted by Listerene
Dec 12, 2018 at 04:17 AM

It might sound like an extreme solution—that’s because it is—but I’ve pretty much given up on Windows software for research organization and have turned to the Mac’s DevonThink Pro. One click and everything I come across, from web clippings to electronic documents gets added to its database. ...There *might* be something as elegant, reliable and easy for Windows but I’ve not found it. Not RightNote, not OneNote, not EverNote, not any of the myriad browser add-ons. Nothing.

I was actually shocked by how it improved my work for such things. Not only does it automatically add web clippings (perfectly intact) to its database, it allows me to add all relevant documents that I create or come across electronically AND associate all of them together THEN it allows me to dump all manner of this disparate information that’s relevant to appropriate Mac OR Windows (where I spend most of my time) software. It’s kind of amazing. Everything just works and in a manner not possible in Windows alone.

It was a radical solution for me but it has been worth it.