Keebler
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- Some of the articles posted here are very important and will continue to be so for many years. Of course, sometimes, you just want or need key excerpts. Yet, some articles are so important to have in their entirety and to be sure you can have that in the future:
SAVE IMPORTANT TEXT, not just the URL / Title
How to SHRINK & MORE QUICKLY COPY & PASTE TEXT
to one's personal computer file for safe keeping if the URL disappears, as happens often in time.
Sometimes you can just highlight the entire page and it will transfer easily but, most often that takes all on the page, advertisements and all.
If reading from a news site, sometimes they have a print feature where you can then have just plain text. I don't see that used as much as it used to be, though.
To capture just want you need:
Go ahead and copy & paste the URL, title, author, date and publication detail to your page and any side-bar detail or photo cutlines if they contain detail. Some photos or charts may also transfer to your file page.
Then - and keeping count of this number - hit whatever keys on your keyboard that will shrink the page. Shrink it down just as far as your eyes can work with to simply highlight, copy and then paste to your work page.
Often interspersed are photos, charts or advertisements that will only allow you to copy so much text as a time. If other stuff gets highlighted as you drag your cursor down, just back off until that unwanted bit is not highlighted.
Sometimes if text is long without such "interruptions" it's possible to drag cursor down and the page will scroll with you all while holding onto the highlight action. Sometimes it won't and you'll have to piecemeal it back and forth.
When done, then hit the combination of keys that will take you back to the best size for regular reading and clean up the extras like the author's detail that is usually below the article or any reference citations listed.
TITLE YOUR WOKE PAGE into a FILE or FOLDER very carefully. If you are not sure how you will search for it in the future, you might make two pages with the most logical titles for your eyes / brain to find.
This sounds like a no-brainer yet I can't tell you how often I want to find something and the way I titled it either eludes me or kidnaps me in a long chase. -
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Keebler
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- Again, because information on the web sometimes hides or just disappears for various reasons, sometimes just because an organization or publication goes through an update. Sometimes, a website will cease to be.
Another trick to finding information when a URL just expires or disappears: Simply search the web with exact title, author or both. Date also helps. Very often the article will pop back up then with a new URL.
Be careful with "tinyurl" as they very often will expire so never rely on them as a permanent identifier. -
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Keebler
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- pdf links can usuaally be saved directly to your computer, too.
They should then open and have the entirely of the text viewable and saved for future personal reference without having to rely on the URL always being there. -
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bluelyme
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Does space run out here ?...thanks keebs
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Keebler
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- It's for when you save links posted here to your study / reference file pages - or if you use the search function to locate posts on a particular topic and there are links there.
So that when you go to look at that again, and click your link (articles are usually never posted here, anyway due to copyright laws & space)
if the article disappears from the web, you have the actual text of the article right there on your note page. -
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