About the Internet Manager 
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About the Internet Manager |
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The internet manager manages internet browse sessions. It does this in two ways.
First, it works as a topic-specific browse history. Unlike your browser's history, which is strictly chronological, the Desktop lets you save as many unique browse histories as you want. A single, chronological history that simply lists every web page you visit is very useful if you are looking for a web site you visited yesterday. But it is less useful if it is a web page you remember visiting two weeks ago (or was it three weeks ago?). With the Desktop's internet manager, you don't have to remember exactly when you visited a page, you just have to remember what you were looking for when you found it.
If you are doing research on a particular topic, the internet manager lets you bundle up all the web pages you visit in a web surfing session - or across several web surfing sessions - and save a hyperlinked list of all those web sites as a browse session, under any name you pick. So, when you want to go back to a web page at any point, it's easy to find: all you have to do is open the browse session you visited it in.
Second, the internet manager lets you gather and organize individual web pages on the fly. When recording a browse, each time a web page is visited, it is added to the browse session list. You can drag any web page off that list and drop it on the bench. So, every time you hit a page that is useful to you, just drag it down onto the bench, as you browse. At the end of the browse you'll be left with a bench full of all the best pages, and none of the pages you don't want. You can even organize these web pages as you go by arranging them on the bench. Once you've got those pages, you can drag them into an NE in the cabinet to manage your useful web pages in the same knowledge structure as all your other knowledge.
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