[WEB4LIB] RE: Reader-Designated HyperLinking In/Between/Among E-Journals

[Tony Barry]

At 9:05 PM -0800 10/2/2001, Richard Wiggins wrote:
>-- the trails -- that a user creates while navigating the material.
>
>The PC and the Web are still a long, long way from that vision.

On the Macintosh you can get something approaching that with 
iRemember http://www.seracsoftware.com/ which scans to http traffic 
and indexes every page you visit using the MacOS in-built Sherlock 
text database engine http://www.asia.apple.com/sherlock/

You can then use any utility which will mirror a web site to 
automatically index it (if that's what you wish to do). I'm currently 
trying out the iCab browser's http://www.icab.de/ "prefetch" facility 
to pull down only the text of pages linked from the pages that I view 
This causes them to be indexed by iRemember on the assumprion that 
anything I'm interested in reading is likely to link to other pages 
of interest to me.

I now have 9400 pages indexed. This index is the first port of call 
for me for anything I want to find as while I may not have read 
anything directly on a subject it's likely that a page I have read 
will link to pages in my areas of interest. More often than not I 
don't need to use search engines.

Tony
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