As Editor of this newsletter I’m a prodigious web surfer, blog reader and a heavy user of RSS feeds. I’ve looked at dozens of products to help me organize all the information but found only one that does exactly what I need.
That product is Onfolio Pro V2. I’ve used it for almost a year to collect and organize the information for this newsletter. It’s one of those rare products that delivers. Every day it saves me time, every day I sing its praises.
At $99 it was excellent value but now you can get it for free as Microsoft has acquired Onfolio [1] and made the product available as an add-in for Windows Live Toolbar beta [2].
Many of the outstanding features in the original Onfolio are available in the new free version including the excellent RSS reader and web snippet manager. The user interface is not as slick as the original but hopefully will improve as Windows Live Toolbar moves out of Beta status. Also, oddly enough, Microsoft will not be supporting the Firefox extension. ;>)
To use the free version of Onfolio you will of course have to first install the Windows Live Toolbar beta [2]. Apart from Onfolio the Toolbar will give you desktop search, tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer, phishing and popup filters and a few other bits and pieces. It’s not a bad product actually and its only major downside is that the Toolbar uses MSN for web search, rather than Google.
Is it worth installing Windows Live Toolbar just to get Onfolio? Well, if you are an Internet Explorer user and you don’t already have a desktop search product, the answer is an emphatic "yes."
For Firefox users the situation is less clear. It’s your call but as for me, I’ll be sticking with the Google Toolbar, Firefox and the now stand-alone Onfolio version for as long as it continues to work.
[1] http://onfolio.com/support/faq_acquisition.cfm?section=company
[2] http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=f53eeee8-de38-45c8-bc6d-a4749e827cc5
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