The ClueViewer — More Information at Your Fingertips

The Clueviewer brings you link summaries, link context information and useful next-action buttons inside a handy tooltip window that turns up when you want it, not when you least expect it.

By default, there are two ways to activate the Clueviewer:

1. Hover your mouse cursor over the Linkclue icon(s),
   or
2. Press the hotkeys (Ctrl+Shift by default) while hovering over a link.

The Clueviewer behaves a lot like other windows on your desktop -- you can drag it and resize it -- except that it's entirely contained within your browser window. Here it is Clueviewing a page about Web 2.0.

1: The Clueviewer always has a set of common buttons along the top for quick access to common functions. You can also click in the blue part of the button bar to drag the Clueviewer.

2: The Clueviewer displays Clueviews. The most common type is a Text Summary extracted from the target link. Other Clueviews exist for Word documents, PDFs, broken links, etc.

3: The Metaclues section provides additional information about the linked content, such as its last-modified date, word count, link count and so on. There are also Metaclues that pull information from external sources, such as the tags used to describe the page on del.icio.us. You can hide Metaclues with the collapse icons, or remove them completely until you turn them back on in the options.

We have several more Metaclues under construction, and will also be releasing an API so that people can build their own.

4: You can scroll inside the Clueviewer when there is a lot of content.

5: Resize the Clueviewer by dragging the bottom right-hand corner.

NB: This page needs to be updated for Interclue 1.5, which has new Next and Previous Link buttons. Pending.