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IN 30 SECONDS
In the comments below, "Ctrl" = "Command" if running on a Mac
On any web page with anything that interests you (professional or personal):
Click the Radius browser extension
OR
Press Ctrl + A to select the entire page, and then Ctrl + C to copy it
If you instead want to capture a fragment of the page’s contents (in either method), select it with the mouse, then click the extension or Ctrl+A to copy it
Radius (displayed as a pop up in the right bottom of your screen) will:
Capture the data of that page as a structured record (with bibliographic fields)
If the page is captured as general text, but has bibliographic data, a Radius message will alert you to click the appropriate "Cite/Cite This" (etc.) link on the web page to capture the specific bibliographic fields (as a second record)
For many pages (such as journal articles found in JStor, Project Muse, or other journal aggregators, along with major book-access web portals and on-line catalogs), this is done automatically
You can edit any captured record as desired, fixing up or adding data in fields, including adding your own category keywords
Save a copy of the captured page on your machine, providing permanent, searchable, access
This can then instantly be searched (along with all previously captured pages) with popup Orbis (F4) or full Orbis (with the Radius Web Pages textbase selected)
Notes:
If instead of selecting and copying an entire page, you copy an ISBN number, Radius will create a bibliographic record of that item
Radius also watches folders on your system for new files that contain ISBN numbers (for lists uploaded from smart phone scanners) or RIS records (saved from other programs) and automatically generates bibliographic records from them
And Radius does the same for text on the clipboard — it watches for text with ISBN numbers or RIS records and generates bibliographic records for them
Click the configure button (the tools button at the top left, to the right of the menu button in the popup Radius) to set up Radius to work the way you like
To display the Radius popup at any time, click the icon in the SysTray or (from within Nota Bene) use F8 (your function keys must be set to work as standard program function keys)
