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want to make sure that at least speciic subfolders within the program folder
are being indexed. his is doubly important if you have programs there that
are critical to your information trapping.
Also, be sure to check the default indexing for e-mail clients. It appears
that Yahoo Desktop does not index e-mail by default. If you're sharing a
computer or have security/privacy concerns, this is probably a good thing.
However, if you have a computer to yourself and you're doing a lot of collab-
orative searching that's coordinated by e-mail, you deinitely want to make
sure it's being indexed!
Fleshing Out Client-Side Options
Computer-level search engines are a good start when you want to make the
information on your machine indable. But from there you actually need to
organize the information relevant to your topic, and computer-level search
engines are not going to help you stash away the stuf that you ind while
you're browsing the Web. For that you need an information organizer. I've
got three for you to look at: Net Snippets, Surfulater, and Onfolio.
What these programs do, for the most part, is work with your browser. As
you're browsing you might ind a story you ind interesting, or some text, or
a page. hese information organizers allow you to take what you come across
and put it into a format that makes it easy to organize. hey range from free
to over $100, and they all have a bit of a learning curve. If you use Inter-
net Explorer, you'll have no problem using any of these oferings. If you use
Firefox, you should be able to use them with no trouble, but you might have
to install extensions. However, if you use Opera you're probably out of luck: I
found that, for the most part, these programs were not Opera-compatible.
Net Snippets
Net Snippets (netsnippets.com) comes in a free and a couple of paid ver-
sions, and works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. If you want to use Net
Snippets with Mozilla or Firefox, you'll have to install a Net Snippets but-
ton, which you can learn more about at netsnippets.com/mozilla/install.
asp. Once you've installed Net Snippets (and the button if you're using
Firefox), you'll see a little Net Snippets button on your toolbar. Click it and
you'll get a little sidebar next to your browser ( Figure 13.8 ).