Scrapbook, a webpage manager Mini Howto for linux. (I am using ubuntu 7.04 and kde)               Back to Main Page

This i a very short version, and if you want to know more, go to the Internet etc.

This howto is without any guarantee, and you may use it on your own responsibility only.

There may be errors, but I do not want to use too much time to  write this howto.

My idea is to make documentation, so you can at the least start using the system.

I (66 years old) have abstracted what I find most important, from lots and lots of documentation.

To check specific words you may use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page  (search).

It's easiest to print this howto out, to use it, by your side !



Index of page:

Scrapbook is a webpage manager

To get it installed

see, that scrapbook is installed

You toggle (open/close) scrapbook by pressing "ctrl+k"

To demonstrate how scrapbook works

To save this page in scrapbook

add the debian webpage to scrapbook

to see a new copy, reload the webpage

to remove the webpage

to change the name of the webpage

see the webaddress of the webpage

move the folder

Tools - manage

To sort all your folders -and files

put a note on a local webpage

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Scrapbook is a webpage manager (a plugin) for Firefox, and it gives you a lot of overview over webpages, it acts as a kind

of bookmark manager as well, and when you get used to it, you will never more be without it.  :-)

To get it installed, open Firefox and choose Tools - add-ons, and then click on the "Get extensions" button:



Then in the small search  window write "scrapbook" and click the "Search" button (see below, just a clip):



                                                                                                                                                                               
Then in the window with search results click on "ScrapBook" (see below, a clip):                        Back to Index of Page




Then you will come to a install window, and just click on the green "Install now" button (see below):


You will then come to another  pop up window, and you have to click the "Install Now" button (see below):        Back to Index of Page



Now Scrapbook will be installed immediately, and you will need to restart Firefox, to activate it, a pop up window will show:



Then Firefox will restart, and you will see, that scrapbook is installed, both the "Scrapbook" menu opened, and the scrapbook

working area can be seen, in the left side of the Firefox working area (it shows my scrapbook, so you will se some contents):

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You toggle (open/close) scrapbook by pressing "ctrl+k", but you can also close it by clicking on the red x button

To demonstrate how scrapbook works, i will use an empty scrapbook profile (there can be several scrapbooks working at the same time).

You see a webpage (debian) just opened:



To save this page in scrapbook we will first make a directory, so click on the green plus icon

and you will get:    and then choose "New Folder":  

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As you can see, I have written the name of the new folder as "debian", so just click "OK", to create the new folder (see small clip below):



We will now add the debian webpage to scrapbook, and put it into this folder.

Right click in the (debian) webpage and select "Capture page":

   then select "Select folder":  

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As you can see, the "debian"  folder is selected (clicked to blue color), so now click "OK":



And the webpage is placed in the "debian" folder - you can close the folder by clicking the small "-" box, or open it again

by clicking the same box which will then show a "+" (means there are one -or several webpages in a folder).

If you later want to see this webpage, which is now copied to your harddisk, just left click the name of the webpage, and a local

copy will be opened.

If however you want to see a new copy, reload (the page might later have been changes) the same page, you just right click the name,

and select "Open source url", and then a fresh copy will be copied to the webbrowser (Firefox):

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If you want to remove the webpage, just right click the name and choose "Delete".

If you want to change the name of the webpage, right click on the name, and choose "Properties":



You can see the webaddress of the webpage in the "URL" address bar, which shows, that scrapbook is also a bookmark manager.

You change the name in the Title name bar, and I have here changed it to  "debian_user_list", and then just pressed "OK":

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You can create one -og many new folders (one at at time) by pressing the green "+" icon, and you can put folders inside other folders,

by dragging them with the mouse:

We will here move the folder "mailing lists" into the "downloads_K-Z" folder, and press on the "mailing lists" folder with the mouse

so it becomes blue (which mean selected):



We now hold the (left) mouse button pressed, and drag the "mailing lists" folder to the "downloads_K-Z" folder, and then release the button:



The folder will now be placed inside the "downloads_K-Z " folder.

You can "drag and drop" both folders and files, but it needs a little training, to get it placed where you want.

There is another way, to manage the scrapbook folders, namely the Tools - manage:

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Choose "Manage", and you then get the Manage dialog window:



To sort all your folders -and files in the scrapbook file tree, choose Tools - Sort Entire Tree, and the following dialog appears:



Click the "Start (N)" button to begin the sort:

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And then the whole filetree will be sorted in alphabetically order.

Here you see the real address (URL):  

And here you se the same address of the local scrapbook copy:

You open a local copy by clicking on the name of the webpage, in the scrapbook window (debian_user_list):

The local copy it sitting on your harddisk, and you can do some editing to this webpage, which has nothing to do with the real page,

somewhere out on the huge Internet:

You can e.g. put a note on a local webpage, and to do so, open the local copy:



To do so, click on the "Create sticky Annotation" icon button:                                                           Back to Index of Page

Then you get a small box on the webpage, and you can write text in it:



I have put some of the explanations inside the sticky annotation box.

You can always click on the box, to reopen it, and do som more editing.

When finished you must click on the small blue floppy icon in the lower right corner, to save the edited local webpage again:

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