Picking a software category for Surfulater is difficult.
One obvious choice is offline browsers, however Surfulater
moves well beyond just saving Web pages and can be
used as a Personal Information Manager (PIM),
Notes Manager, Knowledge Management and Research Tool, Outliner etc.
Surfulater can even capture content from other Applications,
such as an MS Word document, or a PDF file. And it lets you store files
of any type directly inside your Surfulater database or link to them
on your PC.
Gathering all of your important information together
in the one place and being able to instantly find it again, has
never been easier than with Surfulater.
| Offline Browsers often work inside
your Web Browser, or are standalone programs with so many options
they can be difficult for mere mortals to comprehend. Running
inside a Browser can be troublesome. On more than one occasion
we've seen these programs crash and take internet explorer with
them.
There are times when you definitely want to save complete web
pages but in our experience you quickly end up with a mass of
pages you don't know what to do with. Furthermore, saving web
pages gobbles up disk space with many programs creating lots
of folders and files to store them in, or they use proprietary
databases that lock you in to their programs.
With some programs you may find it difficult to copy your information
from one PC to another or to carry it around with you on a USB
Flash Drive for example.
Surfulater addresses all of these issues and more. |
With Surfulater you can correlate content
by adding two way cross reference links between articles
and store a single physical instance of an article in as many
virtual folders as you want. This later feature tackles the
dilemma over which single folder an article is best suited to. Think
of it as one book in many places on a bookshelf at once.
Surfulater goes further than other products in other areas as well.
For example all content is displayed using HTML templates.
These templates enable flexible management of various categories
of information and move Surfulater beyond a product that
only works with Web content. For example we provide templates for
contact details, to do list, music, code snippets
etc. New templates can be added or existing ones changed, without
any change to the Surfulater application.
Surfulater uses XML
for its main Knowledge Base file, which makes it open and extensible.
Other products lock your information away in a proprietary
database. The HTML templates are stored within the XML
file so they are carried around with your Knowledge Base.
You may well find other products
better suit your needs, or you may be frustrated by their limitations
and/or complexity. Rest assured we are here to help you, so please
give us your feedback.
To aid in your evaluation of Surfulater
here are some links to related products you might want to look at:
Remember when evaluating software to
check out the companies support capabilities (Forums, timely replies
etc,), number of years in businees, as well as the software itself.
Read our real world success
stories firsthand from our users and reviewers and hear what they
have to say about Surfulater.
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Surfulater lets you:
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save web pages |
yes
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save text and images |
yes
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save content from other applications |
yes
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locked into a web browser |
no
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standalone program |
yes
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html editing |
yes
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edit content in situ |
yes
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annotate content |
yes
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highlight important text |
yes
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stores content in lots of files |
no - just 2
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link related content |
yes
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same article in many folders |
yes
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full text search |
yes
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send content via. e-mail |
yes
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save content to mht and html
files |
yes
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templates for different types
of information |
yes
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create your own article templates |
yes
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open multiple knowledge bases |
yes
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view articles in chronological
order. |
yes
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import bookmarks |
yes
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see all articles in a folder
at once |
yes
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no
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append content to articles |
yes
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style sheets and color themes |
yes
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open standard data format |
yes XML
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unlikely
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carry your database around on
a USB stick |
yes
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compresses web pages and attachments |
yes
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fast, uncluttered and very easy
to use. |
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