Website Builder ClipCollect
ClipCollect is a personal database for text snippets and a website builder. Gathering data with ClipCollect means creating a website automatically. Furthermore ClipCollect can convert any file directory contents of your hard drive to HTML and build a complete website out of it with only 3 mouse clicks.
ClipCollect's building process looks like this:
- copy and paste text snippets from Windows Clipboard
- auto format, edit and assemble these clips
- save the resulting plain text notes to a database
- convert that database or any other file directory automatically to HTML
- create a website, a manual or catalogue, an eBook or image gallery with 3 mouse clicks
A quick start trying the clip-collecting
Have you ever thought about how many things you read and what you actually remember of that? What you can recall when you need it? The huge amount of information in the Internet, in your emails and other documents, which you digest from day to day, vanishes slowly and unnoticed from your memory. Yes, it is frustrating.
With ClipCollect you extract and save important information in the easiest and quickest possible way. Without any real effort you will grow your personal database over time.
ClipCollect allows you to take text snippets from the Windows Clipboard, format them, aggregate them, edit them and save them to your database. Doing so, it takes care of some common problems:
- Condensing: You do not have to save a whole document in an arbitrary data format, when only a few sentences are of interest for you. So you don't have to read a whole document when you later want to recall the information.
- Ordering: You are prepared when the ubiquitous question arises: Save to where? That will greatly improve your chances to find what you are later searching for.
- Publishing: You can export this database (or anything else on your hard drive!) as HTML. This means you can use ClipCollect's data gathering function directly to assemble a website and generate it automatically.
Let's try ClipCollect's standard operation. Load the input area with a piece of text, select a directory, type in a name for the text and save it.
- Select some lines of text in this browser with the mouse and copy it to the Clipboard with ctrl-c.
- Click on the button [=> paste] at the left
- Click at the top right button [Save =>]
- Select from the menu "<top> Data" and enter "test". Finally hit "OK".
Ready! You just copied, formatted and saved a piece of text.
Now try this:
- Click [edit] and [=> paste]
- To format the text differently try all upper left radio buttons:
- Soft [As is] [Clean] [Deflate]
- Default and most flexible [Wrap] [Tidy]
- Rigorous [Pack] [Press]
Quick and easy.
To better understand the main operations, you should now have a look at
- Input
- Output
- Export
Here you can get an impression of what you can create with ClipCollect
This overview will be shown automatically only once after installation, but with the button at the bottom [Visit the Visoracle] which pops up a menu and selecting "help" you can open it any time.
Further thoughts about using this program
in conjunction with other materials for the information worker
are waiting for you at
http://www.visoracle.com
There you will find ClipCollect's big sister, the Visoracle, too.