4 Great Chrome Apps for Student Researchers - Kang Khoe

November 10, 2016
Below are four excellent Chrome extensions you can use to curate, save and share online content. They allow you to highlight specific portions of text, add comments and notes, clip interesting parts of content and save it for later use. Some of these apps enable you to organize your clipped content into visually attractive cards with the ability to include bibliographical information of each clipped item. This is especially ideal for research students. We invite you to check them out and as always share with us your feedback. Enjoy

1- Candy

This is an interesting Chrome extension that allows you to curate, save and organize online content.  You curated content is highlighted and saved in cards that include key information such as bibliographical data (e.g author, source, notes..etc). Other interesting features provided by Candy include” : search saved content for selected texts or data, arrange cards into storylines, save multiple highlights from a web page together, Candy runs offline too…and many more.

2- Notebook Web Clipper

Clip content from the web to your Notebook with Web Clipper. Clipped content, saved as Note Cards, are immediately synced across your devices… Web Clipper also allows you to  ‘create a quick note from scratch right from your browser. You can also add photos directly from your computer to Web Clipper.’

3- Liner- Private Web/PDF Highlighter

‘Liner saves all your highlights made across mobile and desktop. Share highlighted pages instead of sharing the entire article. Leave sentence-level feedback on web pages by leaving comments on the highlights itself. Highlight Everything with Liner.’

4- Note Anywhere

Note Anywhere is a great note taking tool to use on your browser. It is not as powerful as Evernote or Google Keep but this Chrome app has some interesting distinctive features. It allows you to easily make notes anywhere  on a webpage. And even when you close the webpage and come back to it the notes load automatically. This is definitely a great tool for annotating content you curate online.

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6 Useful Chrome Extensions to Help You Manage Your Tabs and Enhance Your Productivity - Kang Khoe

November 9, 2016
If you use Chrome browser and have a tab addiction like us the extensions below are a real time saver. You can use them to effectively manage your tabs and make the best of your browsing experience.  Some of the things you can do with these extensions include: convert all your opened tabs into lists which you can restore anytime you want, save your opened tabs as bookmarks in a separate folder,  organize and group your tabs by URLs and many more.  Browse through the collection below and see which ones work the best for you. Enjoy

1- OneTab

‘Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once.’

2- PanicButton

‘PanicButton makes it easier for you to hide all of your tabs at once just by clicking on a button. They are then saved as bookmarks in a separate folder. Afterwards, the PanicButton turns green and shows you how many tabs are currently hidden.’

3- Toby: manage your tabs

‘With Toby, you can organize tabs into easy to digest visual lists, and add sites using the on-page drag and drop menu. Don’t want to navigate away from your tabs? Toby lets you add to lists from anywhere with a one-click button! Toby is tab management that fits the way you work.’

4- TooManyTabs for Chrome

‘Ever tried having 20 tabs or more open in Chrome? You can’t even see the favicon of the tabs, not to mention the tab titles! If that happens to you, TooManyTabs is a must-have extension that manages your tabs, reduces your tab overflow, and saves your sanity!’

5- Tab Organizer

‘Organizes the unpinned tabs in the current window by grouping them by URL. Tabs from the same base URL (the same website) will be grouped together, and groups will be made in the order that the first tab from that group appears in the original order.’

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