Googalyzer - a Web Browser/Word Processor / Outliner / Note-Taker for Mac

I'm writing this review inside a new web browser called Googalyzer. Or maybe it's a new word processor. Or a bibliography application? Maybe it's an outliner. With Googalyzer, it's kind of hard to tell, and in all honesty, that's what makes it so good.

First things first... everything I said Googalyzer could be is what it is. It's a nice, tabbed web browser. It has a word processing module; it's nothing fancy (pretty much the equivalent of TextEdit), but it does the job. It can manage a bibliography, and as mentioned, can act as an outliner. But really... what is Googalyzer?

I'll leave it up to the developer to explain: "Googalyzer is an application designed to assist with web research. Combining a tabbed web browser with a text, outline, and bibliography editor, Googalyzer makes it easy to research a topic and keep track of the information you find without the need to switch between applications." What that means is you can visit a web page, copy down some text, use the splitter located the bottom of the screen to enlarge the text area, then paste the text into it. From there, you can attach images and other text, as well as make an outline, for whatever project you're working on.

In fact, you can simply expand the web-viewing area to its fullest, and use Googalyzer as your web browser. It appears to be based on the WebKit html rendering library, so websites will look identical in Googalyzer and Safari. It has Bookmarks, History and you can view the page source and info, just like in a "real" web browser.

The writing module, as mentioned, is practically identical to TextEdit. You can change fonts, color, check spelling, add links and tables, produce lists, modify styles, and perform standard search and replace operations. When you're finished (as I'll do when I'm done with the review), you can export what you've written