highlighting / annotating web pages

[UR user]

Thanks for the alternative suggestions, which I had been aware of.

The reason why snipping doesn't work so well is that I'm talking about html versions of articles that may be 70 pages long, with internal footnoting links, etc. These are complicated documents that are made available through legal research services such as lexis or westlaw.

Separately highlighting them by editing through Word is a possibility. But it's a bit clumsy. One new word highlighted, then saved, requires a full reindexing of the saved document. As UR users know, re-indexing a 70 page document can lock up the computer for 30 seconds+.

I just think that the highlighting / annotating in programs such as Web Research, Knowledge Workshop, Idea Mason seem to be so much stronger. The whole point of UR and its central strength, however, is that it makes all other programs (besides an email/calendar client such as Outlook) unnecessary. Having a single repository to search through is its central reward (I'm tabling the fact that we can't yet search across UR databases).

I think just the tiny ability to highlight in yellow (even without any stickies, etc.) stored html pages would allow academics and legal researchers to put aside any other tool.

Kinook, thanks for listening.