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This time a few very simple tips aimed at making the life for those of you researching a topic. The concept is simple – use basic web browser functions to make handling your research easy. I’ve made these tips browser agnostic – but you may find features on your particular web browser that will enable you to really optimise your searching and ideas

1. Use one tab for search results and place the sites you want to see in other tabs. This way you can track and refer to your search results as you work your way through them.
2. Save your searches as bookmarks or favourites. This lets you come back to a search easily if you have to stop your work.
3. Use bookmark folders to save search results and interesting pages. A good idea to allocated one folder to the project and subfolders to titles such as saved searches, hot results, interesting results etc. This turns your browser into an idea organiser.
4. On your bookmarks precede the descriptive text with numbers. This lets you order the result and again order your thoughts.

We love the computers and gadgets that exist right now, things that ourselves and our clients can use. However it is always exciting to look at what may be, and to think about better ways of interacting with the technology we use. http://10gui.com/ have been doing just this. The result is an excellent video that looks that the problem of user interface and then posits a very elegant solution.

I hope you find this interesting.