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Portable CintaNotes saves text clippings from any app


There are plenty of fancy notebook applications out there. If you're just looking for a simple way to store text clippings, CintaNotes is worth a look.

Highlight text in any application and press control+F12, and CintaNotes automatically captures it and adds the application window's title. Once a clip has been added, you can enter tags, edit the title or text, and add a URL. Links are automatically added when you clip from a supported web browser. Hotkeys to add a new note, clip, and show/hide the main window can be customized.

The app's built-in search is extremely flexible and allows searching by date, title, text, tags, url. It also supports find-as-you-type.

CintaNotes is a free download, and is available as both an installer and a portable application.

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Blogging, web 2.0

Deepmemo is even handy for my not-so-deep memos



There are many applications that allow you to snap snippets of text from web sites and mark, tag, and otherwise share them. It's not a new concept, and truth be told, I wasn't expecting to be too terribly impressed with Deepmemo.com. Their site seemed visually messy, and the mixture of Cyrillic and Roman character sets in the tag cloud area had me concerned, because it didn't seem to change when I selected my language.

The application and delivery of this service, though? Nicely done, guys. You changed my pig-headed mind.

So why does Deepmemo (DM) stand out from the pack? There are a few reasons. The DM toolbar can be used with Firefox, but...hold on to your hats... there is an IE7 version. I know more than a few developers who have no bones saying they'd love to port their add-ons to IE, but it ain't easy. This could be a huge advantage for the DM crew.

It also allows for logins with OpenID, Facebook, or any registered user name associated with a Google service. The caveat is that dm is a third-party application, and it asks for access to your Google (or Facebook) account. If that makes you uncomfortable, it is also possible to just register with dm directly.

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Filed under: Internet, Productivity, Web services, Social Software

Backpack add-ons for Firefox


We're big fans of Backpack, the online PIM organizer with a pioneering KISS philosophy from the wildly successful 37signals. At times, however, Backpack can appear too simple, making it seem like the only way to interact with the service is through its pleasantly minimal web interface. Fortunately, this is entirely not so, and we just stumbled across two handy Firefox add-ons that bring quick navigation and easy clipping to this increasingly useful online info organizer.

First up is Backpack Pages, a simple toolbar button that acts as a simple drop-down bookmark menu for all your pages. As usually with any external Backpack tool, simply enter your username and private API key to get the ball rolling.

Second is a really useful add-on especially for users of Google Notebook or any other web clipping tool out there: Backpack Publish (pictured). Setup is again pretty standard, and now you can select text on any webpage and use this add-on's menu to create a List Item or Note to add to any of your pages without breaking your workflow.

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