A few people have recommended this and it seems too good to be true, but apparently it is the "real deal". I am downloading this tonight and giving it a whirl. If it does half of what it says it does it earns a permanent place in the Queen of Freeware's 5 Star Freeware Files Hall of Fame. From the developer's site:
The Scoop:
You’re on the Web looking for information. Your web research turns up the information you need, scattered in several sites, a couple of articles, a few lines in a web forum. Now what?
If you have Net Snippets Free Edition, our free research software - now is when you treat yourself to a coffee. You’ve already snipped the stuff you really need out of those pages/articles/forums. A line here, a paragraph there, perhaps a picture. It’s all already organized into folders with source information attached. You did it on-the-fly while reading the text. It was that quick and easy.
If you don’t have the Net Snippets free research tool, now is when life gets complicated.
You link all those sources to your Favorites and lose the information when its address changes. Or you save them to your computer and worry later about how to find them again, and what it was in them that two days ago you thought was relevant. Or you start cutting-and-pasting text and links into your favorite word processor. When does Computer Rage overtake you? Is it the fifth time you have to tell Word to convert a web table to text? When that picture ends up in the top left corner of the document? Or only the day after, when you see you forgot to copy over a vital link and can’t remember where the information came from?
Net Snippets Free Edition is a totally free research tool designed for anyone looking for a quick, easy way to conduct web research and collect, organize and share online information. School students who need free research software for homework assignments and projects. Individual investors managing their portfolios through the Web. Public library users to collect the information they’ve found, and take or email it home. Patients and their families looking for information about a medical condition. Family history searchers, recipe collectors, E-bay and Amazon aficionados. Net Snippets is the best tool for comparison-shopping! In short, it’s the must-have free research tool for everyone searching the web. We guarantee you’ll ask yourself how you managed without it. (If you’re a business user or professional researcher, and "lite" research software doesn’t meet your needs, check out the fuller features of our Professional Edition).
Key features:
- Capture text and graphics from anywhere into one location.
- Select text and images from a web page.
- Capture entire web pages.
- Simple drag-and-drop operation.
- Save and annotate exactly what you need.
- Save only the text/graphics you want.
- Save and annotate links.
- Add your personal comments.
Forget about copying addresses. Net Snippets automatically saves the source information for you.
- It’s fast, simple and completely safe.
- Stable, well-established application, thousands of individual and corporate users.
- Optimized to work fast and download fast.
- No hidden files: you can completely uninstall at any time.
- We guarantee to respect your privacy: no spyware, no usage tracking, your information stays yours alone.
- Share information with colleagues and friends.
- Email snippets together: automatic conversion to MHT file for delivery.
- Friends who have Net Snippets can automatically import snippets sent them into their own collection.
And it’s completely free!
- No ads, no promotions, no "just fill in this 3-page questionnaire". No time limit. When we say "free research software", we mean it. It’s free, period.
- Use it, enjoy it, share it with your friends (if they have it too, you can share your web research with them).
- You pay nothing unless you decide to upgrade.
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