Posted by Denham on September 14, 2003 at 10:36:48:

In Reply to: Tools for recoding notes about WebPages you visit posted by efferon on September 08, 2003 at 23:31:14:

Greetings Efferon,

There are many possibilities. I guess it depends on your volume and preferences. Consider:

• Using a wiki - this allows collaborative comments and navigation via links
  
• Free form text database, e.g. AskSam - excellent search capabilities
  
• Open a blog, e.g. Blogger.com from Google - usually rather poor on archives and search
  
• Design a simple database, e.g. using MYSQL - you would have to design the fixed fields and queries, could also use MS Access
  
• Bibliographic software, e.g. Biblioscape - access on the road, citation tools and more
  
• Annotation tools, e.g. QuickTopic - indexing, categorization and search, may not scale well.

There are many more possibilities. Here are some of the decision points:

• Local (i.e. on your harddrive) or webbased 24x7 access?
  
• Costs?
  
• Is access required from the road? (WIFI, PDA, phone, notebook)
  
• Security and sharing - do you wish to allow others to have access, will you publish your notes?
  
• Do you need citation management? - publishing in different formats, sorting by author
  
• How will you do the backups, check for link rot and do you need an archive?

Interesting question - thanks

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