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You’re browsing the web with Safari on your Mac. You come across a page that you want to save for future reference. How do you do this? Or, more to the point, what’s the best way to do this?
The answer is not as obvious as you might think. The answer is (as it is so often in life): it depends. Without working up a sweat, I came up with a dozen different ways to save all or part of a webpage. Each one has its own pros and cons. To help figure out which one is best for your situation, here are your choices:
1. Create a tab or open a new window
When to do it. Technically, you are not actually saving a page here. You’re merely keeping the page open in Safari. This works best when you don’t intend to keep the page around for any length of time. It’s just that you want to click a link to go to another website and wish to temporarily maintain easy access to the current page (without having to depend on the Back button).
How to do it. Control-click on a link. From the menu that appears, select Open in New Tab or Open in New Window. Alternatively, select Safari’s New Window or New Tab commands, located in the File menu; this opens a new page from which you can enter a URL in the address bar.
The main downside of this approach is that the page may get “lost” before you are done with it — if you have to quit Safari or if the program crashes. These days, however, such loss is easily avoided. If you have your Mac set to restore previously open document windows, the pages should return when you next launch Safari. Otherwise, I recommend the Sessions Safari extension for saving the current state of your browser. As a last resort, you can use your History list to locate lost pages.
A secondary downside is that Safari has a irritating tendency to periodically force a reload of currently open pages. If the page has any data that would be lost in a reload (such as entries to a form you are filling out), or if the page has been updated in the interim, the prior content will almost certainly be gone.
In any case, don’t use this technique to excess. To my dismay, my wife often keeps a dozen or so windows open in Safari, each with 8 or 9 tabs. This begins to slow down Safari, eventually to a point where the program becomes unusable.
2. Save the page as a bookmark
When to do it. With this method, rather than saving the page itself, you’re saving its URL. Still, this is ideal if you expect to frequently return to a page and typically want to see its latest content (such as the home page here at TMO).
How to do it. When the page is open, select Add Bookmark… from the Bookmarks menu. Or select the same command from the Sharing menu (accessed from the “arrow in a rectangle” icon in the Toolbar). After doing so, you select the bookmark to return to the page.
3. Save the URL as a “web internet location” file
When to do it. As with a bookmark, you’re just saving the URL here. However, you’re saving it as a file in the Finder rather than as part of Safari. As such, you can launch the page at any time simply by double-clicking the file’s icon. Assuming you don’t care if the page gets updated, the URL file has the advantage of taking up far less drive space than saving the actual page.
How to do it. From Safari’s address bar, click-hold on the mini-icon to the left of the URL and drag it to the Desktop (or other desired Finder folder).
The main downside of this approach, compared to saving the actual page, is that you have no offline access.
4. Save the page as a “Web Archive” file
When to do it. This is the method that I use most often. It’s great for when you want to save content “permanently” to your drive. For example, whenever I find an article with a OS X troubleshooting tip that I want to remember, I save the page as a web archive and put it in a Mac Tips folder on my drive. Now, any time I double-click the file, it re-opens in Safari, looking exactly (or almost exactly) as when I saved it.
Safari’s Save dialogHow to do it. Select Save As… from the File menu. Make sure “Web Archive” is the selected Format. Click Save. Done.
The potential downside here is that, if you want updated content (such as reader comments added to an article after you saved it), you won’t get it. Also, you may have a bit of trouble finding the page’s URL later (as the archive file does not preserve it). Lastly, this method is less than ideal if the content you want to save spans several pages (such as a long article from a magazine) and the site offers no option to display the content as a single page.
5. Save the page as a “Page Source” view
When to do it. This saves the page as HTML. While you probably don’t care to view the HTML code directly, you can open the file in a text editing app, such as OS X’s TextEdit, and see the page similarly (although not exactly) to how it looks in Safari. The advantage here is that, from TextEdit, you can edit the content. You can’t do this from a web archive file. Editing can be useful if you want to save most of the content of a page, but strip out items such as links and advertisements.
How to do it. Select Save As… from the File menu. Select “Page Source” as the Format. Click Save.
6. “Print” the page as a PDF
When to do it. This is an alternative to saving a page as a Safari web archive. You’ll prefer this if you want to be able to view the page in an app other than Safari — or save the page in a format that can be viewed on an iOS device.
How to do it. Select Print from Safari’s File menu. Click the PDF menu button in the lower left and select Save as PDF. If you want instant access to the PDF from your iOS devices, save it to a Dropbox folder (assuming you have one). I do this to have copies of documents, such as airline boarding passes, available from my iPhone.
Going in the other direction, if you have Printopia installed on your Mac, you can use the Print command in Safari on your iOS device to save a page as a PDF file back on your Mac. To do so, tap the Print button from Safari’s Share menu on your iOS device. Select the desired Printopia “virtual printer” option and tap the Print button.
7. Save to Reading List
When to do it. If you don’t like the idea of dozens of web archive or PDF files cluttering up your drive, Reading List is a great alternative. It’s also good for when you want saved files to be automatically accessible across both Mac and iOS devices, especially for offline reading.
Safari’s Reading List featureHow to do it. From the Bookmarks bar, click Safari’s Reading List button (it looks like a pair of glasses). From the column that appears on the left, click Add Page to add the current page to the list. Alternatively, you can select Add to Reading List from the Sharing menu (again, as accessed from the Toolbar icon). You can now select any of the Reading List pages to view them — even if you are not connected to the Internet.
Mobile Safari on iOS devices can also add items to the Reading List. To do so, tap the Sharing icon (at the top left of the screen) and select Add to Reading List.
If you use iCloud, Reading List items can sync across all devices that are logged into your iCloud account.
Although you can use this for long-term storage of articles, I don’t. Rather, I mainly use it when I want to read a page later — such as when I’m on a trip and save an article from my iPad to read later on my Mac. After reading the article, I usually delete it.
If you don’t like Safari’s approach here, try Instapaper. This software, which includes an archive function and a capability similar to Safari’s Reader feature, can be accessed from any web browser or from its own iOS app.
8. Copy text
When to do it. Sometimes you only want to save a snippet of text from an article, such as a quote. To do so, you needn’t save the entire page.
How to do it. Select the text you want to save and hit Copy. You know the rest. Otherwise, you can click-drag the selected text to your Desktop to save it as a clipping file.
9. Copy image
When to do it. The idea here is the same as for text. The only difference is that you’re saving a graphic image, such as a photo.
How to do it. Some sites (such as flckr.com) have specific options for saving images. When that’s not available, the solution is to click-drag the image to your desktop. Or you can Control-click on the image and select Copy Image from the menu that appears; you can then paste the image into a document of whatever app you want.
To save graphics from Safari on an iOS device, tap and hold your finger on the image; from the menu that appears select Save Image. The graphic is saved to your iOS device’s Camera Roll.
10. Take a screenshot
When to do it. Sometimes, because of the coding behind a webpage, click-dragging an image doesn’t work. In this case, you can still make a copy of the image, via OS X’s built in screen capture function.
How to do it. Press Command-Shift-4. Using the crosshair cursor, drag an outline around the image you want to save. Alternatively, you can use a third-party utility, such as Snapz Pro, which allows you take still shots and record video.
11. Download the content
When to do it. Sometimes what you want to save is not a web page but a PDF file or a QuickTime movie or some other media contained on the page. You can often save these items by directly downloading them to your drive (typically, they wind up in your Downloads folder by default).
How to do it. If you are viewing the media content as a web page, such as can happen with PDF files, the Save As… command may do the trick. Otherwise, Control-click the item or its link. From the menu that appears, select the appropriate command, such as “Save Linked File to Downloads” or “Save Linked File As” or “Download Video.” Finally, if no option to save the content presents itself (as may happen with YouTube videos and other streaming content), there are various apps and services that can work-around this; but that’s a subject for another article.
12. Print the pages
When do it. I already mentioned using the Print command to save a file as a PDF. Of course, you can also use Print to actually print the page to paper.
How to do it. From Safari’s File menu, select Print. From the sheet that drops down, select Print again. If the webpage requires several paper pages to print, you can select to print only the page(s) you want.
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Developer(s) | Cultured Code |
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Stable release | 3.10.1 (Mac) 3.10.7 (Mobile) / 5 November 2019; 1 day ago |
Operating system | macOS, iPadOS, iOS, watchOS |
Available in | English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese |
Type | Task management |
License | Proprietary |
Website | culturedcode.com/things/ |
Things is a task management app for macOS, iPadOS, iOS, and watchOS made by Cultured Code, a software startup based in Stuttgart, Germany. It first released for Mac as an alpha that went out in late 2007 to 12,000 people[1] and quickly gained popularity. The following July, when the App Store launched, it was among the first 552 apps available for iPhone.[2] It was then released alongside the iPad in 2010,[3] and became one of the first apps available for Apple Watch in 2015.[4]
In December 2013, Cultured Code announced that they had sold one million copies of the software to date,[5] and in December 2014 the company announced that downloads had increased by an additional three million.[6]
- 2Features
- 2.1Main features
Awards[edit]
Things has won multiple awards over the years. It first won the MacLife Editors' Choice Award in 2008, and then in 2009 it went on to win the Apple Design Award,[7] the Macworld Editors' Choice Award,[8] and the Macworld Best of Show Award.[9] In 2012, after the release of Things 2, Apple selected it as Editors' Choice, named it among the App Store Best of 2012, and inducted it into the App Store Hall of Fame. Things won the Apple Design Award again with the release of Things 3 in 2017.[10] In 2018, thanks to its innovative implementation of external keyboard support, Things for iPad won the MacStories Selects Award for Best App Update of the year.[11]
Features[edit]
Main features[edit]
Things allows to-dos to be subdivided into several sections, which roughly correspond to parts of the Getting Things Done methodology:
Collect[edit]
- Inbox is used to temporarily collect to-dos which have not been filed into a specific list yet.
Organize[edit]
- Projects are collections of to-dos that contribute to the completion of a larger goal (e.g., 'Plan Holiday'). A project can be subdivided with headings. Once the project is finished, the user marks it complete and it moves to the Logbook with all the to-dos it contains.
- Areas can be used to group together projects and to-dos which correspond to the same, ongoing theme (e.g., 'Work' or 'Family'). Unlike projects, areas are perpetual, do not have a checkbox, and are never completed.
Schedule[edit]
- Today automatically collects to-dos which are due, or scheduled to begin, from all the user's lists into one centralized place; they are the user's priorities for the current day.
- This Evening is a separate section at the bottom of Today where the user can set aside to-dos they don't plan to do until later in the evening.
- Upcoming contains to-dos and projects that have been postponed to a specific date, as well as to-dos that are automatically generated based on repeating patterns chosen by the user.
- Anytime is an overview of active to-dos from across all of the user's projects and areas (i.e., to-dos not scheduled for a later date, or postponed in Someday).
- Someday is used to store to-dos which need to be done, but are not time critical (or are on hold).
Additional features[edit]
- Calendar integration allows the user to see their calendar events alongside their to-dos in the Today and Upcoming lists.
- Reminders integration allows the user to import to-dos from Apple's Reminders app into their Things inbox.
- Quick Entry is an extension on the Mac that allows the user to create to-dos while working in other apps. Activated by a global keyboard shortcut, it invokes a small pop-up window which can automatically include links to files or websites.
- Add to Things is an extension on iPhone and iPad that, like Quick Entry, allows the user to send to-dos to Things from other apps. The new to-do is saved to Things' inbox in the background.
- Siri integration allows the user to speak to-dos to their iPad, iPhone, or Apple Watch and have them automatically appear in Things without having to type.
- Siri Shortcuts integration on iOS & iPadOS allows the user to automate common tasks by tapping Siri suggestions, recording a spoken phrase, or by adding shortcuts to Apple's Shortcuts app.
- Repeating To-Dos are automatically generated by the app based on flexible recurrence rules, such as the last day of every month, every other Thursday, or two weeks after the last one was completed, etc. – whatever the user chooses.
- Tags allow the user to further describe to-dos using the popular tagging organisation paradigm; lists can then be filtered by these tags to search for and focus on specific types of tasks.
- Mail to Things is a cloud service that allows the user to send (or forward) emails to a private address and have the email automatically converted into a to-do in their Things inbox.
- Today Widget allows the user to quickly access their Today list from the Notification Center on Mac, iPad, or iPhone.
- Things URLs is a URL scheme that allows the user to construct special links for doing such things as creating to-dos or projects based on predefined values, invoking searches, or filtering lists.
- Type Travel is a unique method for navigating the app on the user's Mac (or iPad with external keyboard) by simply typing where in the app they want to go: a project, area, to-do, or tag.
- Quick Find allows the user to search through all their to-dos across projects, areas, and the Logbook.
- Logbook is where projects and to-dos are stored for future reference after they've been completed.
Things Cloud[edit]
Things Cloud is a sync service that stores the user's to-dos and automatically keeps them updated across all their Apple devices. It was developed to replace the app's original sync technology, which only worked over a local network. The company began alpha testing the new service in 2011 and, after an extended beta period, launched it publicly on August 9, 2012 with the release of Things 2.[12] A user can create a free Things Cloud account from within the apps' settings.
In 2015, the company announced 'Nimbus'[13] – an update to Things Cloud's architecture which introduced push sync through the cloud. The main benefit of the new push technology is that it delivers sync to iOS & iPadOS devices when the app isn't actively running, by utilizing APNs.
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- Things – official site
References[edit]
- ^Blanc, Shawn. 'A Review of Two Things: One For the Mac and One For iPhone'. Shawn Blanc. Shawn Blanc. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^Arrington, Michael. 'iPhone App Store Has Launched'. TechCrunch. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ^Viticci, Federico. 'Things for iPad, Reviewed'. MacStories. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ^'Apple begins releasing the first set of third-party Apple Watch apps'. 9to5Mac. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ^'Cultured Code Sells 1 Million Copies of Things'. iClarified. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ^''Free App of the Week' Brings Things 3 Million Downloads'. iPhoneBlog. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ^'Apple Design Awards ceremony celebrates great iPhone, Mac apps'. Macworld. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ^'25th annual Editors' Choice Awards: the complete list'. Macworld. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ^'Macworld Best of Show 2009 awards'. Ars Technica. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ^'Apple Design Awards - Apple Developer'. Apple. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
- ^'Introducing MacStories Selects: The Best New Apps, App Updates, and iOS Games of 2018'. MacStories. MacStories. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ^Blanc, Shawn. 'Things and Cloud Sync'. Shawn Blanc. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ^Hall, Zac. 'Productivity app Things adds push sync feature to keep task lists auto updated across devices'. 9to5Mac. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
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