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Two very useful extensions add-ons for Firefox are Gomita’s Scrapbook and Rob Brown’s Aardvark.  They are both well polished, elegantly designed, and very useful on their own but I find that they complement and complete each other.

Scrapbook allows you to save complete or parts of a web page to your local drive in managed collections. Your saved collections are available from a Scrapbook menu or a Sidebar panel within Firefox. You can easily organize your clippings in nested folders and even edit and annotate your saved items. You can also add individual Notes pages to your collection and search for anything within the collection.

Your collection is safe and viewable when offline even if the source is no longer available on the web.

I use Scrapbook to store useful  information, copies of online orders, interesting recipes, tips and tricks.

Aardvark allows the user to select and manipulate items on a web page.  You can delete and move elements and colorize their backgrounds. Aardvark is very useful if you want to cleanup a page before you print it.

The changes are gone from the page when you refresh it or press “Q”.

You can also use Aardvark to study the various elements on a web page displaying their type and class ID as well as their associated html source.

I use Aardvark to clean up pages and to isolate information I need before I save them with Scrapbook.  This makes for a much cleaner and more pointed Scrapbook.

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 2:03 pm and is filed under Firefox, Productivity. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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