firefox-scrapbook VS SingleFile

Related: I used to keep a collection of locally mirrored web pages a long time ago, with a legendary Firefox extension called ScrapBook [0] (now long retired). The surprise for me is that after all these years I still remembered the name...

While writing this comment I found that it lived on as a (now "legacy") new extension named ScrapBook X [1], and then yet another one named WebScrapBook [2], which seems to still be alive!

[0]: www.xuldev.org/scrapbook/

[1]: https://github.com/danny0838/firefox-scrapbook

[2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webscrapbook/

After a 5–year struggle, the tremendous migration of ScrapBook X to WebScrapBook is complete.

That's interesting. I have been saving articles as PDF files, which is browser-independent, but useful just for search and reference, a nuisance to quote/copy-and-paste.

If I search only the computer, I don't get results from EBay and Amazon at the top. The idea of keeping the knowledge base separate from the primary notes is a good idea. In my case, that knowledge base is the file system, and the primary notes are whatever I choose.

When I was using Evernote, the inbox was the knowledge base and notebooks were the focus. I just had too many different potential projects going on to manage this well.

Looking to focus.

I'll revisit Firefox and SingleFile.

Explanation of the zip file inside.

https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/blob/master/faq...

[2] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/blob/master/faq...

I agree it would be "great" a complete website in the ZIP. I think this is technically possible, someone just have to code it.

[1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile#singlefile

Singlefile [1] works pretty well for me for that use case.

It has the added advantage that the file format is just plain HTML, and together with “reader mode” in most browsers, it’s a great way to save long-form text or other mostly static pages for later reference.

It obviously doesn’t work for very dynamic pages, let alone web apps.

[1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

I’ve tried all the third party services for archiving interesting things over the years but nothing beats saving everything to your local filesystem using [SingleFile](https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile) and using a full-text search front over the directory (something like Houdahspot, for example).

If you want to save them as a file locally you could use something like SingleFile. You could also put the URL for each wiki into archive.org's Save Page Now so that anyone can access it. Either way, without scripting, you'll have to do some manual labor to get the URL for each wiki.

For small numbers of pages, the SingleFile[0] extension for Firefox (WebExtension) is pretty handy. It's not "archival quality", though, if that's the kind of "archiving" you're doing.

[0] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile