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Perish the thought.
Why would you ditch Evernote?
If I am sounding too gung ho about this software, I am definitely not alone.
Evernote has lots of uses to crow about.
But then the web space of web clipping tools and information managers is not Evernote’s alone.
There are many more information chunking tools that are trying to grab a slice of the pie.
Online note-taking, web clipping tools are must have tools to keep in our web app toolset.
The one advantage thatsomeof these tools bestow is offline access to the saved pages.
Try them out and see if they can serve as good stand-ins as Evernote alternatives.
Clipmarks installs itself as a button in Firefox and Internet Explorer.
it’s possible for you to add your own tags and a title to each Clipmarks Clip.
Clips can be kept private or shared through social media and email.
Clipmarks keeps count of your clips with a character meter.
Each clip is limited to 1000 characters.
But in contrast to Clipmarks, Marro also provides bookmarklets for other browsers like Opera, Chrome and Safari.
IE8’s accelerator from Marro works fine.
Add a tag and a URL alias which will be the pointer for the web clip.
The web clip is saved in your online account.
you could choose to share it or keep it private.
To annotate the web clip, a text editor is also conveniently provided.
you’re free to choose to annotate a page before or after capture.
Scrapbook also supports in-depth capture.
One unique feature allows it to capture page with its linked media files.
All internal and external hyperlinks are retained in the capture.
The filtered search also makes getting to all that stored information a lot easier.
Scrapbook is a great web clipping tool to have right in your web app.
Zoho Notebook deserves a look as a great way to collect snippets of information as you browse the web.
What makes Zoho Notebook is that it comes with net surf tool extensions for Firefox and Chrome.
you might log into Zoho Notebook using your Google account.
The plugin installs on the right side of the status bar.
On any webpage, pick the text and right click.
From the context menu, chooseAdd to Zoho Notebook.
All the information can be bunched up in notebooks and pages.
Zoho has integrated search which helps you to search in one notebook or across multiple notebooks.
For smoother organization, you’re free to also move information across the created pages and notebooks.
Using this you could easily export all the information to an utility like Microsoft OneNote.
Quite an injustice, when you consider that it has powerful web clipping functions.
Microsoft Office Online has a great instructional on how to use Microsoft OneNote for web research.
OneNote itself has aCliptool that can clip any part of the screen.
Managing information is a bulwark against information overload.
Using plain and simple bookmarks is a basic way.
Power users look for solutions beyond the click and go of bookmarks.
Evernote is one of the better ones.
Which web clipping tools out of these five do you think could be an alternative?
