NewsForge: Collecting and Organizing “Stuff”

“Organizing disparate pieces of data on the hard disk and from
the Web is a tricky proposition. For example, as I am learning
Japanese, I have hundreds of text notes, images, loose Web pages,
scanned articles, and other small pieces of data, which I refer to
as ‘stuff.’ Desktop search applications can locate files and find
text in them, but they cannot organize anything. Putting things
into separate folders doesn’t really solve the problem.
Fortunately, two utilities, ScrapBook and BasKet, help me collect
and organize ‘stuff’ in a structured fashion…”

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