What do we do when we run across an article we want to refer to later? Bookmark it and forget about it, only to hope that we can find it among 1000’s other bookmarks we’ve made?

iClippy attempts to help with the process by:

1. engaging the visual memory (by making a snapshot of the piece of the article that will help you remember it)
2. allowing you to tag and index text of the article so you can find it quickly
3. by creating a link to the article from the snapshot you’ve created, and finally
4. by allowing you to select the snapshot, insert it into the email and your friend/colleague will see the snapshot and will be able to click on it and follow the link right from the email or IM

For example:

iClippy bookmark:

Listing in the gallery:

Today I was communicating with an engineer on IM and wanted to ask him about traffic irregularity I’d seen earlier.. I typed “did you see this spike?” into IM, quickly selected the area on the screen and pasted into the IM.

Not only were we on the same page as to what I was referring to, but there’s now a record of this spike that we can refer back to if need be.

I recently ran across a beautiful shot on Bing.  Being in the market for a nice wall photo, I found the artists name by hovering over the (c) info, hit PrtSc button and popped the photo into my clipboard.  Time to do this: under 3 seconds…  then move on to what I was doing..