Does anyone know a good tool for making notes/comments ala MS Word straight onto a webpage?

I know Firefox has a highlighter, but I need a clean note making app as well. The purpose is to save the notes and submit them to clients looking to make changes. Copy/Pasting into Word can get very messy with tables etc.

Thanks in advance.

Hi Kevin,

I'd be interested in finding an app like that too.

Perhaps a work-around would be to insert a table in each webpage that's not part of the copy where you or the client could type in your notes. I'd insert it so if I were printing out the webpage the notes section would appear on each printed page.

Hope that helps (somehow),

Mike

There are two things I use to do what you're talking about (if we're on the same page).

One is Acrobat. You maintain the page and can notate it however you like. This is my favorite way... if you've got it.

But if you want to keep everything in html, then try Scrapbook. It's a free Firefox extension. You can notate and highlight in a number of ways. It's a little limited, but free and functional. It's got a few other features that make it real handy too. I'm a pretty big fan of it.

Anyway, hope this helps. You may have something else in mind, but check out Scrapbook anyway. I use it all the time.

Will do! Thanks, Chris.

I have experimented in the last month with Web Research. It's excellent - very useful for organizing notes and you can export multiple pages into a presentation for clients. See :: macropool ::

Web Research costs about $100 but you can use it free for 30 days (FULL VERSION). Try it out and see if you like it.

I have also been playing with Zotero Zotero: The Next-Generation Research Tool which has the benefit of being free. You can take lots of notes for each file but I'm not sure if it has the export capabilities of Web Research.

Sincerely
Christopher
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My Man! Thanks, Chris - I'll check them out.

I'll second Zotero as a brilliant research tool. I mentioned it in the copywriters productivity tools thread and I'm still using it. Not sure if it can do exactly what you want though... it's more about taking notes about something rather than physically on something.

Yeah, both Zotero and Macropool seem a little advanced for my simple needs. Scrapbook is actually closest so far. Only drag is having to save the notes on the page as opposed to over to the right ala Word.

All cool tools so far though. Thanks.

No problem.

However, as Chris Custer said earlier, probably the best application for what you are trying to do would be the full version of Acrobat.

-C

Yeah, personally I'd go for the Adobe Acrobat option using the Note Tool, Text Edit tool and highlighter -- great way to add in comments, strike-out text (if it's text, not a graphic) and place the note exactly where it's needed.

The good thing about Acrobat for web pages is that you can use the settings in IE/Firefox to save all the backgrounds/images etc and generally get a good accurate representation of how the page looks online (except for animation, video and audio).

Will be checking out Zotero though too! I used to use a tree-based note tool that could dump in html coded clippings, images etc, but haven't had that for about 2 years.