If you're doing so research on the Web, you can organize the material as it comes in with 3D Topicscape. Instead of just adding to Favorites or Bookmarks, you should decide where each useful page you find fits in the mindmap of the subject you're studying.

Drag the favicon (the small icon in your browser's Address box) and drop it on an existing topic if you already have the right place, or drop it on the field. This will make a small red topic which you can drag around and drop in the right position later. (The field is the ground around the topics.)

You can freely search for the right place to put this - the little red cone (topic) will stay still as you fly around or use the search functions, until you drop it on a topic.

You can choose three ways of saving web pages using Topicscape. Save a shortcut, save an MHTML file (.MHT - a Web Archive) or save just the HTML. Saving an MHTML file has the advantage that you can work on the materials you found even when you're not connected to the web. This can be very convenient.

Shortcut: To save as an MHT file, right-click the favicon and drop it where you want it, in the Topicscape window.

Useful hint: You can save page after page this way, without waiting. Topicscape will queue the saves up and work through them while you get on with your search and study. An hourglass will show in the top left hand corner of the window if there are still some pages to be saved. Each completed save will show a blue glow round the target topic. Don't close Topicscape until the hourglass has gone or you may lose some of the saves.

There is more information at Saving Web pages to "Web Archive, single files" (.mht).

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