Create Your Personal Archive of Web Pages With This Chrome Extension
I started my writing career over ten years ago at DownloadSquad. We looked at “Web 2.0 companies” back when people used the term “Web 2.0 companies.” I’ve written a million posts for them, or at least a few thousand. Number of those articles still online: nil.
Yes, I can still read tons of this on the WayBack machine, but I would also like to save more when I had the opportunity.
DownloadSquad changed owners several times while I was working for them, and eventually “Web 2.0” stopped worrying people. I can’t remember the actual time of death of the site, but at some point (in fact, to put it mildly, recently) the current owner of the site decided to turn off all this, and with it all my years of work.
Websites are changing. Websites go out of business. This week I came across a new browser extension that makes saving these sites a bit easier – WebSatchel .
Obviously not many people will have a specific use case that I do. However, there are plenty of reasons to keep a website, whether it’s a story you’ve enjoyed reading and might want to read again, or even a recipe for something you’d like to try later.
Yes, that’s what bookmarks are for (and the Wayback Machine has its own save extension ), but WebSatchel goes further and allows you to annotate the page while you save, which ultimately makes it easier to find exactly what you’re looking for further down the line. …
For example, you can tag a turkey recipe with the words “Thanksgiving 2018” or “Use less dill next time.” Later, when you drag the page up, your annotations will be there along with the original text that was on the page.
The pages you save can be searched for by keyword, date, and page content, which also makes them a little easier to find than your standard bookmark (unless you’re a much more organized person than me).
So you don’t even have to remember where that turkey recipe came from, just that it was turkey.
Free users can save up to three pages per day and store up to 1 GB of files. The Premium tier boosts up to 100GB of storage and unlimited saved pages per day for $ 7.99 per month. That said, unless you’re planning on saving a TON of stuff, this free option should work just fine.
At the very least, it can shorten this growing list of bookmarks.