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I imagine something like a FireFox plug-in with a 'Remember This' button and some options for category, keywords, annotations, etc., but I'll bet there are more creative approaches, too."

I imagine something like a FireFox plug-in with a 'Remember This' button and some options for category, keywords, annotations, etc., but I'll bet there are more creative approaches, too."

I imagine something like a FireFox plug-in with a 'Remember This' button and some options for category, keywords, annotations, etc., but I'll bet there are more creative approaches, too."

Use Scrapbook for Firefox - saving to disk as quickly as bookmarking, edit the pages, highlight them, etc.

There are, how about the Extend Firefox contest or CNET download.com's Best Firefox Extensions and Optimizing Firefox.

And this article doesn't even mention ScrapBook even though it has to be one of the most revolutionary ways to organize reference material. Just check it out, it won 'Most Useful Upgraded Extension' in the Extend FF contest.

Its awesome for archiving web pages, searching them, and even sharing web archives between computers. Saying that Scrapbook is feature-rich would be putting it mildly.

http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/

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ScrapBook 0.17.0

Well the page says upgraded and new. Just discovered this baby, which I find very innovative http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/index.php?l ang=en It allows you to collect parts of or whole webpages while categorizing and editing them and keeping the original link. Very cool. It's a shame he's from japan. Be gentle on his site though I haven't given him the heads up.

The very (IMHO) finest of Firefox extensions (when regarding complexity, usefulness, ergonomics and overall polish), ever - Scrapbook is from Japan.

I use it solely for the search.

But first, get this. It's an extension for firefox, it lets you save parts of web pages, whole web pages, and even spider sites.

Then change the directory for the scrapbook to something you'd be able to find normally. You need to do this in case you reinstall Firefox or make a new profile, because it stupidly defaults to an impossible-to-find subdirectory of your profile. I use My Documents/info/scrapbook/. It's just the downloaded files and some metadata files that have the URL and whatnot, so even if the extension goes away you still have the data.

Whenever you find any interesting data (Instead of interesting changing sites.), don't bookmark it. Instead, scrapbook it. The scrapbook keeps a record of the original site so you can get back there anyway, and, best of all, you can delete parts of the page you don't need, and just keep the actual info.

Instant. Fulltext. Search. Of every bit of information you've ever come across, and it's as simple as choose 'File/Capture Page', or hitelighting and choosing 'Capture Selection', and, when you want to search, you go to google and click 'Desktop'. (Or you use the taskbar thingy, or bookmark it, or add it as a firefox search, or whatever.)

You can, if you want, organize the scrapbook in such a way as that you can browse it, with folders and whatnot. Or you can just completely ignore the layout, never bothering with the actual sidebar, just doing searchs. The scrapbook extension that lets you track a saved page back to a URL, and edit the document, works off the location, so it works even when google desktop finds it.

I've already got 111 megs of data, and I've only been doing this two or three months. And I still need to go to my old 'saved web pages' directories from before I did this and see if I can track down those pages again and save them with this method.

I use KDE and would gladly browse using Konqueror, if only Scrapbook (http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/) wasn't da shit.

I have the same problem, because there's a difference in the needs that bookmarks meet and that reference pages create. I want to be able to search reference pages, preferably indexed for speed, and don't expect them to update much. Slashdot, on the other hand, I want to visit and read myself. I bookmark sites like Slashdot and Google News. For reference material, I use scrapbook (a firefox plugin) that allows me to save those pages and index them. It's really handy, and you can sort things into folders. You might want to try that before rolling your own. Scrapbook. Good luck!

Oh man, tell me about it... with the Scrapbook and Session Saver Firefox extensions and mouse with a middle button... well, let's just say the concept of "spare time" has got very interesting around here. So, are there any *better* success stories of an open approach to knowledge in existence, or is Wikipedia pretty much the Best Damn Thing since sliced bread?