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Figure 13.9
Once you “snip” an
item, you can set its
importance and
add notes.
here is a free version of Net Snippets and two pay versions; standard for
$79.95 and professional for $129.95. You can get more information about
the diferent versions of Net Snippets at netsnippets.com/compare.htm.
Surfulater
Surfulater (surfulater.com) is also available for Firefox and IE. Once
you've installed it, and installed the extension for Firefox if necessary,
you'll see that you get a lot of functionality just from the right-click menu
while you're browsing.
As you're browsing, you may ind some information you want to keep.
Right-click in the body of the page you want to keep, and you'll get options
to save the page, to save the article plus the page, or to just add the article.
When you've done that you'll get a window that shows you what you've
saved. Note that if you highlight text on the page before you choose an
article to save, you'll end up with a lot more information saved in Surfu-
later ( Figure 13.10 ).
If you look at the let side of the screen you'll see that Surfulater saves its
pages in an outline format. You can set up several diferent folders and orga-
nize the information you want that way. If you're monitoring and gathering
a lot of information on several diferent topics this is pretty much critical;
while you can search Surfulater by keyword, organizing your materials at
the onset makes it easy to browse as well.
Surfulater costs $35 but a free trial version is available.