Looks like a new version of Surfulater is about to be released.

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Nov 2, 2008 at 12:06 AM

Q, I agree with you and Alexander that Surfulater has good potential to evolve in future. This perhaps seems ironic because Neville has said that Surfulater focuses on doing one thing well. And this approach has resulted in what I view as the best web clipper on the market, and most certainly the best among the ones mentioned on this forum.

Yet when you look at the Surfulater forums, people talk about the sudden realization they have had that the program is a good note taker, and note templates are provided. In fact, version 3 has a number of templates, including one that provides fields for referencing books, although it is not a complete biblio reference given there is no space for publisher, etc. But if one isn’t using an automated biblio software, there isn’t anything wrong with. And in fact, there is a lot right with it because it’s not going to create the bugs that automated systems seem to get.

I think the templates, plus tags, plus the ease of cloning, suggest further developments. Neville has talked about new features that would include being able to choose the destination folder at the time of clipping in an easy step. From that, it may be a reasonable to speculate that the same ease of clipping could come to non-web documents.

Metadata is already present in the fields that appear at the top and bottom of each web capture, and in version 3 those fields can be relocated to top or bottom. I think I saw that Neville was looking at the possibility of user defined fields.

So I think Surfulater is a program to watch.

Daly