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March 22, 2004

Organising web research material

I came across a product called Onfolio last week and am trying it out at the moment. It is intended to help you collate and organise all the material you find on the web. I do a lot of research on the Internet and have always found it a pain to store information for later recall, especially if you want to group things together and be able to search your collection. I did find a thing called iHarvest about 4 years ago but it somehow never quite worked for me and it was subsequently swallowed up by acquisition and doesn't seem to exist in its current form any more.

Ever eager for something for nothing I have tried various free tools for this purpose but none of them have really been up to the job. You can save copies of web pages using Internet Explorer into so-called web archives (.mht files) but it's a bit clumsy and doesn't always work too well. So, now it's Onfolio that's getting a trial.

The company was founded by Jeremy Allaire one of the brothers who founded Allaire Corporation, subsequently acquired by Macromedia, so the software quality should be good.

Even although it's not free, it's only $30 to register, so if it does the job it is worth that much at least. More comments as I use the product.

Posted by Alistair at March 22, 2004 10:38 AM | TrackBack
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