The ClueViewer — More Information at Your Fingertips

Providing information about the actual content for a link, 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.

There are two standard ways to activate the Clueviewer:

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

You can drag, resize and scroll the Clueviewer just like a normal window, but it's entirely contained within your browser window and goes away after the mouse moves away from it. Here's an example.

1: The Clueviewer has a set of buttons along the top for quick access to common functions. The first two of these will take you to the previous and next links on the current page that Interclue sees as "similar" to the one you're currently viewing.

2: The other buttons supply a wide range of functions, and you can control which are displayed by using the Options dialog. Click in the empty blue part of the button bar to drag the Clueviewer.

3: The Clueviewer displays Clueviews. The most common type is a summary of a Web page extracted from the target link. Interclue will try to work out which is the most important text. Specialized Clueviews exist for audio or video files, Word documents, PDFs, broken links and so on.

4: You can scroll the Clueviewer when necessary.

5: The Metaclues section provides additional information about a Web page, such as its last-modified date, word count, link count and so on. Some Metaclues 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'll be adding many more Metaclues, and we'll also be releasing an API so that people can build their own.

6: You can resize the Clueviewer by dragging the bottom right-hand corner.

• ← Linkclues
• Clueviews →