Saving articles from web pages

[Deere345]

I am a new OneNote user, so please bear with me as I must be missing
something here...

I often want to save articles from web sites to refer to later in my
research. I have found several ways to do this, but none are satisfactory.
1. "Send to Onenote" from IE 8 -- messes up formatting, eg. paragraph breaks
are gone
2. Cut/Paste -- same as 1.
3. Print to Onenote -- text on bottom of page 1 is cut off (showstopper).
Would like to loose headers/footers and margins (annoyance)
4. <win key> - S to capture snippet -- won't scroll down page and isn't
searchable (what I expect for an image)

Any other ideas? When saving articles from the web, I'd like:
1. to preserve formatting
2. searchable
3. to be able to print out with nice formatting

Any suggestions? I feel like I'm missing something here. Seems that folks
would do this a lot.

Thanks!
deere345

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I am a new OneNote user, so please bear with me as I must be missing
something here...

Welcome to Club!

I often want to save articles from web sites to refer to later in my
research. I have found several ways to do this, but none are
satisfactory.
1. "Send to Onenote" from IE 8 -- messes up formatting, eg.
paragraph breaks are gone

Yes. One will hardly ever get a 1:1 copy. The same when pasting into
word, f.e.
The main obstacle is the way a page in the web is formatted.
Scripts used and tables and all other fancy formatting gets in the way
if one copies to ON.
Very it often it's necessary to edit the imported stuff.

2. Cut/Paste -- same as 1.

Same as above.

3. Print to Onenote -- text on bottom of page 1 is cut off
(showstopper). Would like to loose headers/footers and margins
(annoyance)

The printing is based in the browser's settings.
One may change some of the settings for the ON-Printer in the print
dialog and in the Browses page settings, but only some.

4. <win key> - S to capture snippet -- won't scroll down page

You are just expecting just too much.
Normal "snippet"/screenshot tools are unable to capture more than what
is shown in the screen.
You would need a third party screen-capture application which offers the
feature of capturing "scrolling" windows. I have been happily using
"SnagIt" for many years (side by side with ON). It offers the capture
of scrolling windows (not only web-pages but things from other programs
too - prior to getting across this therad I had taken a capture from the
huge list of installed software (Control Panel > Add and Remove
Software) which I could not have done otherwise. And the program offers
a whole lot of other sophisticated features for working with images of
all kind, f.e. commenting and stamps etc., etc. You may check the fully
functional trial [1]

and isn't searchable (what I expect for an image)

You are expecting right ;-)
ON has a the great feature of running OCR on images and it does that in
the background. The results are really good, even with small fonts (f.e.
a standard Windows error-message).
If it does not work automatically, right-clock in image and select the
last pont in the menu.

Any other ideas? When saving articles from the web, I'd like:
1. to preserve formatting

No, no suggestion. I have learnt to live with the results {siiiiighh}
and edit things if they should look good.

2. searchable

As said, built-in.

3. to be able to print out with nice formatting

Formatting is OK with standard things. If it's stuff from the web, it's
as limited as the browser' print-optipns.

Any suggestions? I feel like I'm missing something here. Seems that
folks would do this a lot.

Yes, I'm heavily working with stuff imported from the web.

Rainald
[1] http://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.asp

 

[kns]

The missing paragraph breaks can be avoided by trying one of the paste options.
In onenote, whenever you paste something, a small 'bag' icon appears at the
bottom corner. That's the "paste option".