{"id":1162,"date":"2007-10-29T09:17:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T13:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2007-10-29T09:17:30","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T13:17:30","slug":"research-tool-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1162","title":{"rendered":"Research tool wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do people here use to store all the clippings they make from the web? It needs to be quick, unobtrusive, so that I can just press a hotkey in the browser, and to allow tagging and later sorting by date; also to be easy to synchonise between two Windows computers. I&#8217;m not going to get a Mac laptop just for this. So far, the following have failed me:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\">Opera&#8217;s<\/a> notes facility is quick and unobtrusive. But it doesn&#8217;t allow tagging, doesn&#8217;t easily let me sort date ranges, and won&#8217;t synchronise between computers.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/firefox\/427\/\">scrapbook extension for Firefox<\/a> is comprehensive and may allow tagging, if I misuse the comments field. But it won&#8217;t synchronise between computers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ecco_Pro\">Ecco<\/a> is old, and growing buggy. I know that other people can get the shooter working properly. I can&#8217;t, is all I can say. It would be perfect if it did work, because then I could slice, dice, and classify everything I put into it and integrate this with other information. I&#8217;ve just wasted an hour proving that there is a bug in its date folder handling.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/default.aspx\">OneNote?<\/a> Won&#8217;t tag very flexibly, and <del>won&#8217;t interact with non IE browsers<\/del> has a powertoy to work with Firefox. May or may not synchonise; I can&#8217;t remember.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evernote.com\">EverNote:<\/a> I found the UI irritating and the web clipper wouldn&#8217;t work with Opera. I might have another look though; I&#8217;ve paid for it. It does synch without fuss.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zotero.org\/\">Zotero<\/a> looks great, but won&#8217;t synch at all: they suggest putting a special firefox installation on a usb drive, and carrying that between computers. Seems sensible for students but I need a solution that works at the breakfast table, when I am half asleep.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>First rough conclusions: none of these will work properly with Opera, which I went back to using a few months ago, for two reasons: I adore the single key &#8216;z&#8217; shortcut for going back; and I was hoping that improved <span class=\"caps\">IMAP <\/span>would deliver me from bloody odious Thunderbird. Still, it looks as if I will have to return to Firefox.<\/p>\n\n<p>What else? I know there was some bibliographic-ish program that I lusted after which was a competitor to EndNote. Can&#8217;t immediately remember the name, though.  Ah. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblioscape.com\">Biblioscape.<\/a> Wants you to use its own web browser. No thanks, I already have three.<\/p>\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t want an online solution because then it&#8217;s not around when I am offline. But I can see I might be driven to one.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do people here use to store all the clippings they make from the web? 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