Use iBreadcrumbs to retrace your steps on the web

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Use iBreadcrumbs to retrace your steps on the web

by Jay Hathaway Jun 12th 2008

iBreadcrumbs is a browser toolbar you can use to record the websites you visit while you're working on a particular project, so you can find your research again or share your sources with someone else. Sure, you could do this manually, by posting your finds to del.icio.us or a similar bookmarking service, and giving them all the same tag, but iBreadcrumbs makes that look like way too much work. All you have to do is click start, and everything gets saved automatically.

Your sessions (Breadcrumbs) each get saved to their own dedicated page, where you can organize them and add additional notes. You can combine a new Breadcrumb with an existing one, which makes the service useful for longer research projects. There's also a social aspect to the site: you can add friends for easy collaboration. iBreadcrumbs is flexible enough that we're sure it can be applied to all sorts of non-research functions. Don't be put off by the "University" field in the sign-up process - this service isn't just for academics.

Tags: academic, add-on, browsing, firefox, iBreadcrumbs, logging, research, toolbar

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Neville Franks said 12:37PM on 6-15-2008

Surfulater lets you permanently save content from web pages and complete web pages to Knowledge Bases stored on your local PC. You can edit the content, add notes, tag it, cross reference to other saved content, publish content to the Web, access saved content from other applications like Word Documents, use full text search to find saved content and lots more. You can also used it as a PIM with a range of templates including Contacts, ToDo, Music, Clipboard, Notes and more. It works with Firefox version 1, 2 & 3 and IE6 and 7. More information and a free trial are available at http://www.surfulater.com For the latest news and pre-release access see http://blog.surfulater.com

David Swallow said 5:08AM on 6-18-2008

Apart from the "social" angle, why is this any different from the history mechanism that is present in all browsers? Heck, I don't even have to press record for that to record my actions...

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