I’ve passed by ScrapBook a few times in my travels through the annals of Mozilla’s add-ons website thinking it was little more than a hyped up bookmark manager. No. Wrong. Not even close. From the developers website:
ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and manage the collection. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are:
- Save Web page
- Save snippet of Web page
- Save Web site (In-depth Capture)
- Organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks
- Highlighter, Eraser and various page editing features
- Full text search and quick filtering search
- Text edit feature resembling Opera’s Notes
ScrapBook for Firefox
I was looking for something to help out with publishing my blog – something i could use to collect snippets of information from various websites that i could organize, add to and reuse later. ScrapBook is really good at this. It doesn’t do screen captures, instead it saves whatever you have selected to a file with a simple drag and drop and it gives you some options on what to save and how to save it. ScrapBook is sort of like Zotero, but it’s much simpler, faster, lighter and easier to use. It does not have the power Zotero does, but unless you’re doing some serious research you may not need that level of power.
Another very cool feature is the ability to merge a pile of clippings you’ve selected into a single item. So for a news junkie like me, i can weasel around the web collection news headlines and article snippets, with images, and then combine all my junk into one item that is displayed in a Firefox tab, making it easy to then post.
ScrapBook includes some more advanced features too, like saving a whole website to a specified link depth, text highlighting, inserting comments and more.
Visit the very cool ScrapBook website for a full rundown.