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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: May 05, 2003 Crutches for short term memory -- "What I need is a software tool that will record everything I read, and when I need to find it again, enable me to enter a word or two in a search box and get a list of places I have been to that contain those words."
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Functional links: Posted by: Lenny the Belly Button Lint Ball with a Heart of Gold on May 5, 2003 11:10 AM
On the mac you could use iRemember "Forget to bookmark that great web page and now you can't find it? Do you use Netscape Navigator and wish it kept your browsing history? Use more than one browser and wish there was one place you could go to find any page you visited?" Posted by: Eric on May 5, 2003 12:28 PM
With Internet Explorer - click History, then Search... I only just discovered this myself, but it looks like it does the trick. Posted by: on May 5, 2003 01:34 PM
Powermarks is my collective memory tool for tracking good content and research I come across. Netsnippets sounds a bit familiar to something I saw at CHI 2001 or 2002...I was thinking recently that I'd like to try it out, but couldn't figure out what it was called or how to look it up. Gotta check it out...but too much to do right now. UGH. If anyone gives these tools a test run I'd appreciate hearing your reviews here...hint, hint. :-) Posted by: Lyle, Lyle, Croc O' Lyle on May 5, 2003 06:09 PM
I use SurfSaver to archive Web pages that I might be interested in later. I cannot compare it against the other tools mentioned here since I have not used them. SurfSaver does most of what I want. It stores web pages, along with associated objects (images, …) in an easy to use database. Stored pages can be retrieved by search for text in a page, page title, URL, notes entered when page is saved, or keywords(also manually entered). What SurfSaver does not do that I sometimes want is to save all pages viewed in a session. I have to remember to press the save button on each page I want preserved. (This limitation applies to Netsnippets and ContentSaver also). SurfSaver will save all pages that the current page links to or entire sites.
Sounds like iRemember is the winner then ... it saves *every* page you ever visit in any browser, whether you remember to do so or not. Posted by: Eric on May 5, 2003 09:06 PM
Eric, I think that depends on what you're looking for. I personally like Powermarks because it function as the editor of what goes into it. I also classify things by keywords (e.g. guidelines, cardsorting, roi, etc.) If something stored *everything* I looked at it wouldn't really be much better than Google for my purposes. A tool that would do both, and allow me to search either way might have some additional value. Posted by: Lyle - Usability Guru on May 5, 2003 09:53 PM
I use Polly. When I visit a web site worth returning to, I repeat the URL to Polly 50 times over the period of one hour. She usually retains it and repeats it for a good month. I recommend every get a Polly, unless you're married and covertly visit porn sites. Posted by: John Many Jars on May 7, 2003 12:00 AM
Thanks for all the comments and suggestions, andline and off. I have checked them all and abswered some of them at the bottom of the original page. Posted by: Hanan Cohen on May 8, 2003 03:15 AM
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