The trial of EagleFiler is going great, I am really loving it so far.
One thing that I am missing that I had in DEVONthink was the ability to grab just the URL for a bookmark (ie, simply the .webloc file). For sites that have live data, there is no point in taking a snapshot - for example, my account page on the banking website I use. All I want is a link, and the Web Archive file gives me both too much data, in terms of file size, and old information.
Is this planned for a future release? I would love to store all of my bookmarks in EF, if only I could have just the link.
Originally I wasn’t planning to support bookmarks, being that Web archives provide a superset of their functionality. However, some people seem to really want them, so now I think it’s a feature that I’ll probably add. How do you propose that EagleFiler should determine when to import a bookmark (.webloc) and when to import a Web archive?
Thanks, Michael, for this level of responsiveness!
I’ll tell you what DEVONthink does: They use two terms, Archive and Bookmark. There are even bookmarklets that use those words. So, when I want the snapshot of a page, I create an Archive (or click the Archive bookmarklet), and when I want just the .webloc bookmark file, I create a Bookmark (or click the Bookmark bookmarklet).
As for drag-and-drop operations, I would say that if a user drags from the location bar of the browser, that’s a bookmark, and if they click F1, it’s an archive. And Command-F1 would give a choice.
I’ve been interested in this feature as well to the extent that I’ve split my storing of webpages between DevonThink and EagleFiler. Since you already have the option-F1 shortcut that brings up a dialog, I’d recommend that you make it an option on that dialog. That way, the default capture is still Web archive since most people will want that.