"Never memorize something that you can look up." Albert Einstein
 

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 the web browser 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.

Tags enable content to be flagged using keywords or phrases. For example to see all articles with the tag 'solar energy' simply click on it in the Tags tree. Tags are quick to add to articles using auto-suggest and groups of articles can have tags added or removed in one simple process.

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. And Template layouts can be rearranged to order their rows to best suit your needs.

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:

SurfSaver www.surfsaver.com NetSnippets www.netsnippets.com
ContentSaver www.macropool.com iMiser www.weborganizer.biz
SurfOffline www.surfoffline.com Internet Researcher www.zylox.com
Evernote www.evernote.com OnFolio www.onfolio.com
WebStasher www.webstasher.com eNotebook www.enotebook-home.com

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.
Quick info

Surfulater lets you:

   
Surfulater
Product
x
save web pages
yes
?
save text and images
yes
?
save content from other applications
yes
?
locked into a web browser
no
?
standalone program
yes
?
html editing
yes
?
edit content in situ
yes
?
tag content
yes
?
annotate content
yes
?
highlight important text
yes
?
publish content
yes
?
stores content in lots of files
no - just 3
?
link related content
yes
?
same article in many folders
yes
no
full text search
yes
?
filter content
yes
?
send content via. e-mail
yes
?
save content to mht and html files
yes
?
templates for different types of information
yes
?
create your own article templates
yes
?
open multiple knowledge bases
yes
?
view articles in chronological order.
yes
?
import bookmarks
yes
?
see all articles in a folder at once
yes
no
append content to articles
yes
?
style sheets and color themes
yes
?
open standard data format
yes
unlikely
carry your database around on a USB stick
yes
?
compresses web pages and attachments
yes
?
fast, uncluttered and very easy to use.
yes
no
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