Need help tracking web pages

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 13, 2011 at 03:26 PM

In view of your requirements, Ken, I’d suggest using something like “Awesome Screenshot” (an extension for Google Chrome), which allows you to take complete screenshots of a web page (including the bits that aren’t on-screen), then mark them up/annotate them, then save the resulting image out as a PNG file.

So, the benefits: it’s free, and it runs in a standard web browser (Google Chrome). And it doesn’t just create screenshots, it allows you to annotate them.

On the downside, it only creates PNG files rather than files with editable text. But OneNote or another OCR application (e.g. EverNote) could be used to extract text subsequently. Of course you could (as somebody else has suggested) use OneNote to take screenshots (Windows key + S) and then share and annotate them, but OneNote’s screenshot feature isn’t as powerful as Awesome Screenshot’s.

I’m sure similar extensions are available for Mozilla Firefox. I have no idea whether they are for Internet Explorer.

On a slight tangent - to track web pages you could do worse than try out Martin Aignes’s Web Watcher application, which also allows you to annotate them (it’s payable software, unfortunately). His Local Website Archive application allows you to save web pages locally, but you have to pay for the version capable of annotations.

Hope one or more of those helps!

Cheers,
Bill