New Snippets bookmarklet

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

One of the new features in Curio 4.0.3 is a super-cool bookmarklet you can add to your browser which will allow you to archive web pages directly into Snippets with a click of a button.

A bookmarklet is a bit of Javascript stored as a bookmark in your browser. Clicking it actually executes the Javascript code. In our case, it tells Curio's Snippets service to create a WebArchive of the specified web page and place it into the Snippets library.

To create the bookmarklet simply follow these steps:
  1. Run Curio 4.0.3 at least one time - that way it knows how to handle the bookmarklet.
  2. Drag this link (Copy to Curio) directly to your bookmarks bar.
Next time you surf to a web page you wish to archive in Curio, simply click the newly created bookmark and a WebArchive will be generated and placed into your Snippets library. You will hear the familiar Snippet "chirp" sound when it is finished. Curio does not have to be running for this feature to work as it all happens behind the scenes.

Then, next time you run Curio, you can drag the WebArchive out of Snippets (marked in Curio's shelf with a pair of scissors) and into any idea space.

5 Comments:

  • Cool, thanks guys!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:00 PM  

  • Great feature - but how can I tell later on where the web page came from - ie it's original url?

    cheers

    Osbert

    By Blogger Osbert Lancaster, at 5:04 AM  

  • We're actually looking into that for an upcoming release.

    By Blogger George, at 9:15 AM  

  • I've noticed that only web archives preview in the idea space, plus images and pdf's. Is there any way to get HTM or HTML files to preview or Pages documents for example?

    Simon

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:49 AM  

  • Currently, we don't show previews for HTM or HTML files although that's a nifty idea. Showing previews for Pages docs is a bit more difficult but perhaps Leopard and Quick Look will help with that down the road.

    By Blogger George, at 11:28 AM  

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