Digital Scrap Book

These last two days, I have finally been back to snooping around on the internet and catching up on blogs that I have missed. I have found a lot of cool stuff that I would like to remember or bookmark in some visual way. Even with all of the possibilities of bookmarking through delicious and browser bookmarks, I still find that I would like some sort of program to exist where I can click and drag images out of the browser so that I can spatially organize them either immediately or later with commentary and text boxes...some equivalent of a digital scrapbook. It would be important that I could organize the material in a unique to the content, visually striking, immediate way (mix of collaging and graphic design?), dependent on the nature of my content.


*example of a collage someone made in one of my user studies

Of course this is all do-able in Adobe InDesign or something, but it defeats the purpose of being able to make these spontaneous mind-mapesque visual notes. To consider the physical analogy I to have the rush of tearing up parts of magazines so I can paste them into a blank book and make big messy notes that I can look back on later (without the regret that always comes with tearing up nice publications).

The drawback of just bookmarking is that I can't make the mental connection I need later to remember what was so inspiring in the first place, and if I did remember I would still have to wade through the whole website. Maybe what I am looking for already exists...but maybe this is an idea for a future project.

I am now trying to make this work with my BookSmart bookmaking program, but all the crucial functions I want are missing.