![]() Yojimbo and Together also allow you to drag a URL to their dock icon. I found with websites with a lot of text and pictures such as Amazon or The Times it would tell me it couldn’t archive the whole page and asked me to select a portion. At the moment it is a little hit-or-miss. The Evernote bookmarklet works with the web version which will then sync with your desktop app. I found this worked perfectly with Yojimbo and Together. ![]() Click the bookmarklet and a web archive of the page you are on is downloaded into the application. All three applications have a bookmarklet that can be installed in your browser. There are many ways to create web archives. Yojimbo is okay but a little dated looking (and it has a horrible icon!). Together and Evernote both look lovely but in my opinion Evernote is a little cleaner looking. Total storage is unlimited.Īll three applications have an iTunes style source list with notes appearing to the right. It is free unless you want to add more than 40MB a month in which case it is $5 per month (or $45 a year). It has a Mac and Windows desktop application that can be synced with a web version. Ample time to fully evaluate both.Įvernote is a little different and is currently still in beta. Yojimbo lasts for a generous 30 days, Together for 15 days. Yojimbo and Together are both fully fledged applications costing $39. ![]() Having looked at a few applications I decided to trial Yojimbo from Bare Bones Software, Together from Reinvented Software and Evernote. iPhone or web access (only necessary to access my reading material at work).Preview a web archive or PDF within the application.Add a URL or web clipping with only one mouse click (or an easy keyboard shortcut).They need to be kept well organised – I have an annual appraisal where I have to present evidence of what I have read with comments that I may have added. I read a number of online journals and websites and need to record and archive anything I have read – a mixture of web archives, bookmarks and PDFs. I need to keep track of reading material I use for work.I want to be able to save web archives, with a link to the original page and have the ability to add my own comments. Instead, it is much easier to save relevant snippets of each webpage (or sometimes an archive of the whole page). ![]() I could have bookmarked each page (or kept multiple tabs open) but I would have ended up with a large number of pages, flipping back and forth all the time. (It’s not arrived yet but that’s a whole other story!) I looked at multiple websites comparing plasma and LCD, features and cost. For example, last week we bought a new TV. (And the only reason I don’t do that is because the service isn’t available where I live.) When I’m researching something I want to buy I want to keep track of all the items I’m considering. ![]() The type of things I could write in a notebook but could more quickly add to the computer if I’m already sitting here. I want to be able to store little snippets of text, such as a reference number for something I just bought online.These applications are enormously versatile with as many uses as there are users. Little bits of text, web page archives, snippets from a web page, photos, PDFs, all sorts. What exactly is an information organiser? Basically it is an application that can collect and store pieces of information as notes. There are quite a few available for the Mac and I thought I would write about how I came to my final decision. I have been trying to choose an information collector and organiser for the last few weeks. ![]()
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