I’ve already blogged about ScrapBook in my Firefox extension roundup. I thought I mentioned it already here in contrast of what I tried to achive with the imap solutation last year.
Basically I tried to mimic with imap what ScrapBook provides out of the book. Take snapshots of documents (or parts of documents), organize them into folders and hope that I find them the next time I need them.
Now ScrapBook is incredibly smart at organized the information and additionally lets you append your own notes/information to it. Documents, Images, PDF, whatever you want you can put it in your ScrapBook. I haven’t seen something more useful in a while now.
But wait, there’s more!
You can put inline annotation to the document. Remove parts of them. Select a part a create a new link to it. Or link to a local file.
Really. Wow.
October 20th, 2005
Bookmarks are nice, they let you store the name, location and description and you can organize them like files in folders. Everything is fine, but I wanted more.
Sometimes I need parts and pieces of the boomarked item immidiately available. Sure, add it to the description. More parts & pieces? Try notes. What if you want to store some nice notes along a bookmark? Description? Sure. More notes? What about .. and, yes, I’m talking about files. Attach files to a bookmark? Insane, that’s not what bookmarks were ment to be. Right. So I choose Imap.
Long story short: I ended up organizing my bookmarks as Imap messages in folders. Lucky me I’m running my own MTA, coupled with an Imap server, so no problems running out of storage.
I haven’t mentioned synchronisation yet, but this was always a nightmare. Different computers, different browsers, and always an imported bookmark I needed wasn’t available. Imap? Accessing my bookmarks from everywhere, problem solved. Sure, not so nice integrated into the browser, read: no integration at all. But availability of information was more important to me. Oh, and yes, of course I need to install/configurate the email client on every new computer. So why not just copy the bookmarks instead of going through the hassle of setting up email all the time? Synchronisation.
October 27th, 2004