Example 17 WebClips Template.
(Especially helpful for new Ecco_Pro users!)
What's going on here Attached for downloading is an .ect template to use as a base or an example for organizing web clips.
The date clipped is automatically recorded, and clips can be found & viewed by day/week/month in the calendar view.
Notes:
While an outline allows
you to organize massive quantities of data, the outline does not organize it for you while you sleep.
Many new users want to clip clip clip, but aren't yet at home at organizing all those clips. The template provides one way. (This is just ONE way of organizing, there are many others, including the use of folders to designate categories of clips in place of outline subjects. You can even use auto-assignments in folders based on key-word in the item's text, and with slang-extension regex key-word in MagicView page).
You can clip clip clip directly into the "WebMagic Folder". BUT.... every day you should move each item to some appropriate place in your web clips outline.
The
Magic Hijack! tool is *highly* recommended for the purpose. The eccomagic Classic tool (
www.eccomagic.com) is also helpful in allowing simple cut & paste of items with magicview pages. Native ecco copy and paste will not copy folder values (and MV page is a folder value). In Native Ecco you
can still move items manually. To do this: from the "WebMagic Inbox" tab, *FIRST* click an item into the Web Clips folder by clicking on that column, then remove from the Inbox folder by clicking on *that* column. (Doing in reverse order will create an 'orphan'.)
Once you move an item into the Web Clips folder, it is critical you drag & drop the item (or alt + UP/ alt + DOWN) where it belongs in YOUR outline.
(With the Magic Hijack! tool you can mark one or more items (Winkey + M) and simply place them where you desire (Winkey + Shift + M)).
With either the Magic Hijack! tool or manual movement, you can mark (Control + Click / Shift + Click) multiple items and move them all together. The shortcut keys such as Control + J, Control + 1, Control + 2, Control + 3, Control + H, Control + G, Control + E, etc., are *very* helpful in moving around and using the outline. It is very much worth meeting and getting to knows these very helpful ecco friends (and their click equivalents such as double click on dot, Alt + double click, Control + double click) .
Some tips:
Think about designations and differences that make sense TO YOU.
Think about the general AREAS of SUBJECTS that you typically clip from.
When any item or sub item gets too 'full', figure out how to define sub parts that make sense.
If the information is not worth a few seconds to organize at the end (or start) of the day, the info is not worth clipping!
DOWNLOAD TEMPLATE HERE