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Hi,

I'm new in the OS X-world, and have just learnt about Safari's web archive function. As a freelance journalist, having the possibility to save websites that might be useful in the future as selfcontaining files are a great possibility. Even better if there was some software that helped me in creating and manage the web archives.

To do it in Safari requires a couple of mouseclicks. Is there anything around that would let me create a web archive out of a url in the clipboard or similar just with the press of a hotkey? And what about sorting and tagging the created archives so that they are easily available in the future?

/Anders

TOPICS: Mac OS X
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But I wonder how Yojimbo...

thoresson;6460 wrote:
But I wonder how Yojimbo performs when you've got a couple of thousand entries in the database...I've also had a quick look at Journler, and there I can sort the web archives into different folders and subfolders. That means that I can groups stuff together that are connected, for a certain article I can file all my notes, all pdf:s and all web archives used as reference material together. I can't see no obvious way to do the same in Yojimbo.

So, what I would like to know is, how many entries do you have in Yojimbo today, and how easy do you find what you are looking for. Also, do you have a clever way to group a couple of notes, web archives and pdf:s together? I know one can create new folders, but since I write a couple of articles per month, that list will soon grow quickly and become cluttered.

/Anders

This lack of obvious (even optional) visual organization was a major area of discussion when Yojimbo came out. They (BBS) insist that it's not needed, that tags and searches will find for you what you are looking for. I think they're up a tree; besides, it would be easy to offer both.

I think you'd have more luck convincing the Journler folks to incorporate a decent web archive capability, long before you'll get Yojimbo with structure. JMHO.

BTW: Thanks for the reminder about Journler.

 
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