Opera Notes

Until recently I hadn't seen much use for the "Notes" feature in Opera.

Then I started using it a bit for blogging, having used Flock browser for a few weeks before deciding it didn't quite work for me. Flock has a nifty "Web Clipboard" feature where you can drag and drop information from a web page then just cut and paste it into new blog posts.

It turns out that Opera's Notes works just as well, for that purpose. So going back to Opera was no loss of functionality. Now I find myself reading web articles and thinking I wouldn't mind putting that on my blog- drag, drop and then on to the next web page, before coming back to write a blog or two.

But this week I found myself doing some research on the web. We had a "Stations of the Cross" service on Good Friday, and as you might expect there are thousands of Catholic resources and a few Protestant ones as well. So I made a Note called "Stations of the Cross" and dragged and dropped all kinds of information on to it- text resources, locations of images for the projector, URLs of meditations, the works. Then as I produced the service, it was just a matter of selecting text, copying into an Open Office document, going back to web sites to select the graphics etc.

What was really handy was that everything that I had thought might be useful was there in the one place in the note.

What a brilliant tool for web-based research!