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From: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>
To: "Charles A. Roelli" <charles@aurox.ch>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do you store web pages for reference?
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 14:06:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m21sw32lyo.fsf@charm-wifi.irisa.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2shojffwx.fsf@aurox.ch> (Charles A. Roelli's message of "Mon, 16 Jan 2017 11:38:38 +0100")

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Hi Charles,

On 2017-01-16 11:38, charles@aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli) writes:

> On Mon, Jan 16 2017 at 09:48:38 am, Alan Schmitt wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a workflow that allows me to save a web page for
>> reference, ideally from Firefox. I know of org-protocol-capture-html
>> (https://github.com/alphapapa/org-protocol-capture-html), which is
>> perfect for pure-text pages, but I'm also looking for a solution for
>> images-heavy pages. I've tried to simply save the page to PDF, but it
>> does not preserve the links.
>
> You might also want to try org-board:
>
>     https://github.com/scallywag/org-board
>
> It offers archiving, diffing between archives, and anything `wget' can
> do (see its manual for more details).  I haven't integrated it with
> Firefox, but if you can
>
>     a) Get the current URL from Firefox,
>     b) Send it to Emacs,
>     c) Open a dedicated web bookmark file buffer, create a heading for
>        the URL, and run `org-board-archive',
>
> then org-board would take care of archiving the site exactly as you see
> it in the browser.

This is great! Thanks a lot for the suggestion. I just gave it a try and
it works beautifully. (I haven't integrated it with Firefox, but I think
it should not be too difficult using org-protocol.)

Best,

Alan

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-16 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-16  8:48 How do you store web pages for reference? Alan Schmitt
2017-01-16  9:22 ` Michael Welle
2017-01-16  9:57   ` Alan Schmitt
2017-01-16 10:03     ` Michael Welle
2017-01-16 15:58     ` William Denton
2017-01-16 18:09       ` Alan Schmitt
2017-01-16 10:38 ` Charles A. Roelli
2017-01-16 13:06   ` Alan Schmitt [this message]
2017-01-16 14:43 ` Karl Voit
2017-01-16 15:41   ` Alan Schmitt
2017-01-16 16:35     ` Karl Voit
2017-01-16 16:52       ` Robert Horn
2017-01-16 17:40         ` Scott Otterson
2017-03-16 19:04           ` Bob Newell
2017-03-17  8:05             ` Alan Schmitt
2017-03-23  0:01             ` Adam Porter
2017-03-13 17:43 ` Peter Salazar
2017-03-14 12:17   ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-03-15  7:08   ` Alan Schmitt

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