Welcome to Wired-Marker

"Time flies when I am conducting a research using the Web, and I cannot make any progress in summarizing the results!" Such complaints are a thing of the past. By simply highlighting parts of Web pages as you view them successively, a bookmark that has references to the information source is automatically created. You can highlight pictures and tables as well. Wired-Marker saves all the information that you need for writing your report as you conduct your research.

What is Wired-Marker?

Wired-Marker is a permanent (indelible) highlighter that you use on Web pages. The highlighter, which comes in various colors and styles, is a kind of electronic bookmark that serves as a guide when you revisit a Web page. The highlighted content is automatically recorded in a bookmark and saved. To use Wired-Marker, you simply drag and drop the selected sections into a bookmark folder. You can highlight not only text but also pictures, tables, and selected portions of the screen. You can even add notes to the highlighted items.

You can view the highlighted items, their associated URLs, their position in the page, and any user notes at a glance in a tabular format. The view can also be exported as an XML file, thus making it possible to exchange bookmarks between users and to parse a large bookmark.

Use as an "indelible highlighter" on Web pages

By using the highlighter settings in Wired-Marker, you can customize the color and style of the highlighter (with which the compiled and saved sections in a Web page are highlighted) associated with a folder. These highlighted sections remain visible on the page when you revisit it.

Use as an electronic bookmark

You can use Wired-Marker to bookmark specific positions in a Web page by using XPath instead of only using the URL. Often, the information that you require is a single phrase or a single keyword, even in an important document. By using Wired-Marker, you can directly jump to the position of interest in a long page or paragraph. Since you can create an infinite combination of highlighter colors and styles, you can categorize the compiled information according to the color and style in a manner similar to the use of multicolored bookmarks.

Use as a scrapbook folder

Sections and pictures are automatically copied when they are highlighted. Thus, a scrapbook is automatically generated without any additional operations. Unlike the usual copy-and-paste operation, the URL and coordinate in a page are also recorded; thus, the source of the item in the bookmark is clear, and this facilitates the organization of the collected data. You can also add notes to the bookmarked items.

Use as a structural organization tool for information

You can increase the number of highlighter colors and styles corresponding to different themes to suit your needs. You can also create hierarchical folders corresponding to each type of highlighter and display the bookmark information in a hierarchical list view. By specifying a stylesheet, you can switch to a user-defined viewing style, and you can also edit the notes and other user-added information directly from the hierarchical list view.

Other useful functions

Export

You can export all the information contained in a folder as a file. The exported file can be restored to Wired-Marker by dragging and dropping the file into a folder in Wired-Marker.

Template creation

You can create reusable folder templates that can duplicate settings, including subfolders. This is useful functionality when collecting information in a team with many people.

Image capture

You can save sections from a picture stored on the clipboard or from the displayed Web page as images. You can also collect or organise them in a manner similar to the collection/organization of other items.

Concordance functionality

This functionality indicates the locations in a Web page where there are saved sections by displaying an indicator next to the vertical scrollbar. Since the indicator is displayed using the color specified by the highlighter, it is easy to grasp the type of information highlighted in the page and jump to specific locations.

Definable highlighter properties

You can define additional properties that are associated with the collected items for each folder. By displaying the properties of the collected items in a folder using the list view and adding user-defined properties, you can easily collate various data.

How to use

  1. Install the plugin.
  2. The folders in the sidebar correspond to each type of highlighter.
  3. You can modify the highlighter color and style as the attributes of a folder.
  4. Once a Web page is displayed, simply select the text or pictures and drag and drop them into the highlighter folder.

Other uses of Wired-Marker