The most significant feature that distinguishes Radius from every other web-clipper I’ve used is its so-called smart clipping capabilities, which result in sweeping information into your different data sets in a discriminating and readily accessible manner. For user friendliness and research purposes, this reflects three major advantages.

First, Radius distinguishes from among the different types of data present on the web page and allocates data according to each type. Data types may include HTML-coded textual content, or bibliographic information listed on the page, or extracted data from an embedded QR code, or the data available in a journal article, or the information found in book publishers’ catalogs. Or consumer-oriented data.

Second — and this is special — is the manner in which Radius’s data allocation mechanism makes information easily accessible to other Nota Bene applications, including Orbis and Ibidem, and available to the document processor.

In the case of HTML textual content, the Radius instantaneously hands it over to Orbis where it will — again, instantaneously — be converted to searchable text and available to Popup Orbis. There, searches are done in simple fashion or with greater complexity using Boolean connectors. If the user has Orbis+, Popup Orbis will also index and be searchable for sources in various formats, including PDF, DOCX, and RTF.

Third, in addition to the Popup Orbis searches for content, other data, including bibliographic data, are turned over to, and indexed by, the user’s Ibidem databases. Bibliographic data may be clipped from on-line HTML articles or articles found in journal aggregators, or in book publishers’ catalogs, or quickly converted from Zotero records. And in addition to bibliographic data, other data types are allocated to other databases conveniently accessible by clicking their respective tabs from within Ibidem. In other words, instead of looking for different data types in different places, they are all conveniently gathered within the now-expanded Ibidem application.

And then, in addition, there is the unbounded and searchable information that Radius clips from web pages containing news, consumer items, services — the sources and materials that we rely on for our everyday needs and curiosity.

I know of nothing else in the data-harvesting world that compares.