Gathering the strands of a tangled Web

By Scott Dunn The Web changes almost as fast as the spidery versions in my basement. How do you pin down this constantly changing maze of information? Readers provide us with different ways to preserve bits of World Wide Wisdom.

More free ways to capture Web content

In the Nov. 9 LangaList, Fred mentioned Net Snippets. This is a quick way to drag and drop info (including links and graphics) from Web pages and other kinds of documents. If this appeals to you, you’ll be glad to know that Net Snippets is now offering a free version for download.

But wait, there’s more! Reader Roger Whitehead points us to another useful tool of a similar bent:

• “I use EverNote for capturing Web content. I don’t know if it does all that Net Snippets can but it’s fast, efficient and, in its basic version, free.”

EverNote is a content collection tool that, like Net Snippets, lets you quickly add info from Web browsers and Word and Excel files, similar to Microsoft’s OneNote product. Net Snippets emphasizes research and reports, while EverNote emphasizes free-form note taking. But their Web capture features are quite similar. And now they’re free!

Reader Robert Spivack, by contrast, prefers a different approach to capturing Web content:

• “The ‘safest’ way is to use a program that converts the Web site to a PDF. Then you know it is fully encapsulated and viewable offline without any lingering links to online images or content that might disappear sometime in the future.

  Besides the pricey Adobe Acrobat, there is a very good utility called pdf995. The free version displays an ad for the developer’s products each time you run it, or you can buy a license for only $9.95 and not see ads.
  
  

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