Saving stories other than bookmarks

[Guest]

Something needs to be done about bookmarks. I'll admit some time ago now i
jumped ship from IE to Firefox and even though the layout is different the
problem of bookmarks or the favourites folder still plagues users ability to
organise websites and content.

take for example www.engadget.com or zdnet.co.uk, they have many tech
stories which i would like to just file away nad liek those diaries that are
on a spindal i would like to alphabetically or by some other method flick
through stories that i had saved.

What I am getting at is not saving them as a bookmark, or as a whole page,
just the text, just the story. At present I have to do a copy and paste into
word with some meta-data a picture insert. A universal method, i don't know
maybe using xml or some new technology, needs to be agreed so that bits of
pages can just be filed away and made easily accessable. From all websites.

Any thoughts...

 

[Jon Kennedy]

One solution you might be interested in is RSS. Both of the sites you
mention have RSS feeds to their articles - http://www.engadget.com/ - see
the small green/gray RSS link in the middle column, and
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/ - it's the orange "XML" link at the very bottom.
Get yourself a nice, simple RSS reader like http://www.sharpreader.net/ or
http://www.rssreader.com/ and give it a try. There are tons of RSS readers
out there - http://allrss.com/rssreaderswindows.html, and I'm sure others
will chime in with their favorite one(s).
Most news sites (like CNN http://www.cnn.com/services/rss/ and FoxNews -
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,147142,00.html for example) and bloggers
have RSS links.

Another possible solution for you would be to get a bookmark manager such
as:
http://activeurls.com/en/

Or a third solution - and this might just be the thing:
http://www.anynotes.com/

 

[Guest]

thanks for the links, i have downloaded the firefox rss reader but dont seem
to use it, however the bookmark manager seems a good idea.

regards, samuel