twURL Screenshot

twURL at work showing 727 URLs organized by Internet domains, drilled down to .edu, and then gwu.edu. Checked nodes are one way of filtering or collecting certain interesting URLs from the outline. Top toolbar provides: different views of URLs (one-line, details, graphic, grid), sorting, up/down moement, decisions, and switches to views and reports. The bottom toolbar offers cluster operations and choices of which URLs to views. Clusters are groups of URLs associated with the node (and sub-nodes) any point in the tree.

Other Interfaces

• Keywords in a vocabulary called "Infowar". Keywords are user-defined including from the HTML Meta of web pages. A keyword match includes significant content:  title, meta, 1st 500 words, and headings, rather than the whole page.
• More domains at the top level.
• Two views created from URLs using counting and analysis: Number of links into and from each URL and Top 10 for URLs and sites counting links in and links from.
• Graphical view of the top level of domains in this collection: by Pie Chart and by Bar Chart.
• Grid views of a cluster of URLs: attribute information (title, keywords, meta) and metrics (# links in, # links from, ...). Other grid views include linked URLs, keywords, and search engines.
• Part of tree showing ratings assigned to URLs: lock - great, the best; clip = good, should be viewed; question=not sure yet; trash = time to go.
• Full-screen browsing in context, showing a web page displayed to the left with details about the web page in twURL at the right. Clicking the up or down arrows goes to the next URL in the tree and feeds that url into the browser. Decisions may be recorded at the top using the lock,clip,question, and trash buttons.