Today’s topic is a bit lighter: how to save an interesting article to your hard drive. I know from you that before you go to the State Archives, and even before you start searching on websites like www.szukajwarchiwach.pl, you start your archival searches (and any other kind – sorry, that’s our climate 😉) with Uncle Google. What happens then? Usually, after entering the phrase you’re interested in, various websites pop up. Often not only Polish, but also foreign ones. You click one after another, third after fourth, and fifth after sixth. The search becomes fruitful, numerous, and effective, because you find interesting and important information. However, when you’re already on the twenty-ninth page, you remember that on the second page there was something about Grandma Jadwiga’s great-uncle from Krasnobród, who emigrated to the States after the war. The find is undoubtedly important. You want to return to that page, but suddenly, by a strange coincidence, it disappeared. It would be a good idea to save the entire article to your hard drive immediately. Copying individual links won’t help, because after some time it may disappear from the online archives. universe.
I have two ways to save an article to disk.
The first is to save a simple print screen. This works for small pieces of content, such as a few sentences on a page. How do I print a screen? Your keyboard probably has a mysterious “PrtSc” button. Press it, then open Paint on your computer and paste the image from the print screen. You can also edit it in Paint, for example, crop it. Then, save the image to your computer as a JPG or PDF, whichever you prefer.
The second method is to save the entire page to your computer’s hard drive.
In Chrome, it looks like this (other browsers also have this option).
Once you have a website open, click the three dots in the upper right corner, then “save page as,” and then select “save as” for the “website single file” type. At this point, you have saved the page as a file on your hard drive. The page can now be opened using a web browser, but you don’t need internet access.