SW for making notes on reading text file.

[Clay Weber]

On Sunday 27 December 2009 04:07:55 pm Jonas Norlander wrote:
> 2009/12/27 john_re <john_re at fastmail.us>:
> > What's great sw that enables commenting, underlining & highlighting in
> > colors onto text or html files?  Like what one could do while reading
> > print materials - magazine or book?
> >
> > So, I'd like to use this on a web page with any "article" like text. &
> > also on regular .txt plain text files.
> >
> > Anyone use this currently?  I'm thinking today's college students, who
> > are doing lots of reading, & likely more & more computer downloaded
> > material, might be a large category of users for this.
> 
> It's a interesting idea but I don't know of any software that has all
> this functions though there is many note taking applications. Perhaps
> it's something that Nepomuk and KDE semantic desktop should look into.
> 
> For online web pages there is WebNotes http://www.webnotes.net/ . I
> Haven't tried it but it looks Ok and has a free version.
> If you find any good program let us know.
> 
> / Jonas
> 

For web pages, check out these firefox extensions:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12676
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/791

For  regular text files simply open them in openoffice or kword

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