FurlProject - Raymond Yee's Wiki

Furl (via

you know, the ones you want to save for future reference but then can never find again

Once saved, you can effortlessly find any page again later using a powerful full text search tool. With Furl you can forget trying to save and organize dozens of bookmarks, forget saving web pages to your desktop, in fact forget everything except how to find a useful web page again next time you need it.

My first impressions of Furl

It looks like a server-side app. I'm not sure I'm happy with that aspect.

Furl should definitely go into list of projects to learn from since collecting web pages is something that I think many people -- including scholars, educators, and researchers -- do. I myself have been using Adobe Acrobat.

I've set up an account to play with.

There is some basic export capability. For example, I can write my archive out as FurlXML:

<archive owner="rdhyee" date="2004-01-22 18:37:34">
  <entry id="2215" uri="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/22/opinion/22FRIE.html?ex=1390107600&amp;en=dbf8503bd13fda15&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND" title="Op-Ed Columnist: War of Ideas, Part 5" topic="Politics" keywords="Friedman, Iraq, Democrats" rating="4" public="1" date="2004-01-22 12:29:24">
    <description>Tom Friedman is always interesting to read.</description>
    <clipping>How so? Well, it seems to me that Iowa Democrats, in opting for John Kerry and John Edwards over Howard Dean, signaled (among other things) that they want a presidential candidate who is serious about fighting the war against the Islamist totalitarianism threatening open societies.</clipping>
  </entry>
</archive>

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