A Great Extension for Research

I study eCommunications and one of the latest activities is to study the online (”web”) progress of a news article over a two week period. This is quite a big task so I decided to look for some tools to help make it easier to manage the information. After browsing around the Mozilla add-ons website I found ScrapBook which allows local saving of web pages (or even sites). It is possible to highlight important text, add annotations and make some inline notes before and after saving the page. Furthermore, if you do not what to save all the text then you can just select what is required and save this specific text. It is exactly what I was looking for!

When saving a page, there is the option to specify the type of linked content to save and whether to include style sheets (CSS), images and javascript.

The saved pages/text can be managed similarly to bookmarks in a side bar; they can be renamed and categorised in to folders.

This is definitely an excellent extension for research and I’m sure it would be of great benefit to students. I would give it 10/10 as it does the job well.