Download/HomepageLet's see if this sounds familiar to you. From
the very first day that I gained access to the Internet, I have
been visiting web sites, found something that made me feel I
wanted to come back to that site, and therefore bookmarked it for
future reference. Little did I realize at that time, but as my
curiosity regarding what information was available on the web
grew, so also did my list of bookmarks grow. I don't know an
exact count but they now number in the hundreds. Beyond my
addiction to software I have enjoyed a life-long passion for
history, and for the past 25 years I have studied the American
Civil War in particular. I also keep a listing of Genealogy
resources, booksellers, software companies etc., etc. I have
often recalled that a particular Civil War site had, for
instance, information on the Battle of Gettysburg, but as time
passed I have forgotten which site holds what information.
Internet Organizer was developed for people just like me. Let me
say at the outset that this program is not for absolutely
everyone who connects to the web. A good friend of mine, Steve,
tells me he has only about 30-40 bookmarks and that he tends to
revisit these sites of interest to him rather than wandering the
web. Of course he would tend to know his sites very well, and
probably does not require a separate program to serve as his
guide. But for the many out there like me who bookmark nearly
daily, for those who conduct a lot of research on the web, and
want to return to sites of interest, Internet Organizer can
certainly put some order and sanity back into your computing.
Organizer is only as good as you are prepared to make it. I will
warn you that it will require a lot of work to find all the
information and enter it into the database. But, if you spend the
time to organize your URL's and their contents, you will be
rewarded with Organizer's many options relating to search for and
report on your database information. Installation is easy and I
imported my Netscape bookmarks with no problem.
The Organizer screen is basically divided in two with the left
portion being your bookmarked sites , then a column of alpha
tabs, and finally the right area where you enter your data. If
you choose to click on "A" for instance, all your
bookmarks beginning with "A" will be listed. You then
can Page Down, Page Up, go to the First instance or to the Last
instance of that alpha. In the right half of the screen you are
greeted with many options to identify that particular site. You
will enter the Title, Address (www.), two Category boxes to
refine the type of data further, Keywords to highlight a site's
most important information to you, Email address, Type (WWW,
Email, FTP, Gopher, Newsgroup), Date and Phone number. If a logo
is available you can even include that. There are also options to
Delete, Undo, Copy etc. As if that were not enough, you are
presented with Parts 1 to 4. Part 1 is the current right half of
the screen. Part 2 allows for User Fields and a Description area.
Part 3 allows you to enter Notes of your choice, while Part 4 is
the Picture frame where you can Clear, Load, Save, Zoom and
Capture. I won't touch on everything Organizer can do but in
addition to the above you can Sort information to your heart's
content, you can Find, Replace, Print, create Summary information
and even produce Graphs on your database's contents.
I strongly recommend Internet Organizer for everyone who, like
me, has lost control of their bookmarked sites. If you invest the
time to make your records complete, if you choose your Keywords
and other options wisely, you will be able to find all the
information that now lies unused within those sites you thought
were important enough to make note of.
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