Using OneNote instead of Bookmarks
Bookmarks are fairly limiting for remembering why you wanted to save a site. Social bookmarking and tagging improves the concept, but sending to OneNote allows you to get snippets or the whole page and make additional notes. It can be accomplished using any of the Browser to OneNote PowerToys, but I’ll focus on Flock (since I also host Flock Extension City)
- Install the FireFox/Flock to OneNote PowerToy and restart Flock.
- Set the path to OneNote.exe in the Extension’s Options settings.
- When you find something worth saving…
- Right-Click and select “Clip to OneNote”
- Highlight only what you want and “Clip to OneNote”
- It is saved in your OneNote “Side Notes” and has a hyperlink to the original.
- You can now move it to another section, add additional notes, and have a more complete description than just a bookmark can offer.
The Flock “Shelf” is also an interesting way to store bookmarks. I’ve got to play with it more before I figure out the best way to use it, but it should be an interesting tool.
A bonus tip… When doing research, right click on all search results that look interesting and open them in a new Tab. Tabbed browsing can really improve your navigation between sites. Quickly review them and close all the non-interesting ones. Add the rest to OneNote for further processing.
