The collection and proper presentation of footnote inform...
The collection and proper presentation of footnote information from electronic documents
Idea Description
A user would have to execute as many as four copy/paste cycles (text, title, author, URL) to properly footnote a web page and then struggle to format the footnote properly. The existing process lowers productivity; results in poor documentation of sources, and can even lead to claims of plagiarism. "Footnoter" is a utility plug in for word processing programs such as Microsoft Word that captures footnote information (title, author, page, url, etc.) from web pages, word-processing documents, pdf documents, etc. within the copy function and “plugs” this information into the proper places within a document during the paste function.
What will you do if you win $10,000 for this idea?
Hire a developer, contact Microsoft and/or Firefox.
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It would be helpful to have one program that would make this information available in all of the different styles of citation. Good Luck!