Professor Geek

I have been using Onfolio for a couple of years now and have gone through (I think) about three versions of it. I frequently get upgrade notices from the software I have, and I just as often ignore them, as I rarely see the upgrades as being worth the money. Onfolio is one of my exceptions. I always upgrade it and keep it up to date.

I was originally alerted to Onfolio by PC Magazine. You can get a 30 day trial of it and after I had tried it for the 30 days, I was hooked. It works in your browser and basically lets you set up collections (which equate to topics). In each collection, you can have items. For example, if you are searching the web and you find a website that really fits your topic, you can just put it in the collection. You can save the link or save the whole page. Generally, saving the link takes a lot fewer resources, but saving the whole page is good if it is a page that is time-sensitive and may go away soon. So far, it probably just sounds like a glorified favorites list to you, but it is really much more than that. Each entry can have a description and a collection is basically equivalent to an RSS feed, with the items being each entry you have saved. In fact, with the professional version of Onfolio (highly recommended for researchers) you get Onfolio Publisher, which lets you pick items out of your collections and publish them as a web page (and an RSS feed). It therefore becomes a great tool for collaboration.

I have used this software on a number of projects and it has definitely become a “keeper” tool in my arsenal of research weapons.

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