Method and system to capture, share and find information and relationships
A method and system to improve personal and collaborative information management and search. The method is to actively or passively capture pieces of information and the connections among them across disparate technologies and the human mind, while people keep working with familiar tools, and to snapshot such information objects to be globally addressed, persistent in time, and hyperlinked based on the connections. The system can be injected in existing digital information technology (servers and the cloud or personal and mobile computing devices) to capture, connect, share, synchronize, search and serve the information objects and their connections. This is particularly effective in finding information that is buried and disorganized across devices, applications, internet accounts, and people, or information and connections in the users' mind and actions that otherwise do not get captured in digital form.
1. A method of immutably copying a selection of content from a displayed document to a second document, comprising:
(a) selecting content from the current display of the application program;
(b) copying the selected content to a clipboard;
(c) in conjunction with the copying of the selected content and with no human intervention, performing the following steps:
(c1) creating a screengrab of the displayed document,
(c2) saving the screengrab on a server computer,
(c3) and obtaining a URL for the saved screengrab,
(c4) modifying the clipboard information to include the URL of the saved screengrab;
(d) in conjunction with the copying of the selected content and with no human intervention, performing the following steps:
(d1) saving a copy of the displayed document on a server,
(d2) obtaining a URL for the saved copy; and
(d3) modifying the clipboard information to include the URL of the saved copy of the displayed document: and
(e) pasting the modified clipboard information into the second document.
2. The method of claim 1 , where the selected content from a displayed document is the entire document.
3. The method of claim 1 , where the URL for the saved screengrab is generated by the server.
4. The method of claim 1 , where the URL for the saved screengrab is generated on the user's computer.
5. The method of claim 1 , where the URL for the saved copy of the displayed document is generated by the server.
6. The method of claim 1 , where the URL for the saved copy of the displayed document is generated on the user's computer.
7. A method of immutably copying a selection of web browser content to a document, comprising:
(a) selecting content from a web page currently being displayed by the web browser;
(b) copying the selected content to a clipboard;
(c) in conjunction with the copying of the selected content and with no human intervention, performing the following steps:
(c1) determining the URL of the web page,
(c2) and modifying the clipboard information to include the URL of the web page;
(d) in conjunction with the copying of the selected content and with no human intervention, performing the following steps:
(d1) creating a screengrab of the web page as displayed by the web browser,
(d2) saving the screengrab on a server computer,
(d3) obtaining a URL for the saved screengrab,
(d4) and modifying the clipboard information to include the URL of the saved screengrab;
(e) in conjunction with the copying of the selected content and with no human intervention, performing the following steps:
(e1) saving HTML of the selected content on a server computer;
(e2) obtaining a URL for the saved HTML,
(e3) and modifying the clipboard information to include the URL for the saved HTML; and
(f) pasting the modified clipboard information into the document.
8. The method of claim 7 , where the URL for the saved HTML is generated by the server.
9. The method of claim 7 , where the URL for the saved HTML is generated on the user's computer.
10. The method of claim 7 , where the saved HTML is the entire web page.