How to keep a select history?

only seeing the purple links for webpages I want..

[vitaplease]

I try to delete all cookies, files and clear my history daily to keep my PC as clean as possible.

However, when doing extensive searching on certain subjects over several days I would like to know which pages I have already visited in SERPs and directories by seeing the well known purple links.

Is there any browser, add-on or trick, where I can keep my history clean, but keep a self selected list of already visited webpages?

Is there any way of making the already visited purple webpages more clearly visible (lets say dark purple in bold, for example)?

thanks for your input.

[tedster]

Is there any browser, add-on or trick, where I can keep my history clean, but keep a self selected list of already visited webpages?

This is an interesting request. One way to go about it would be to use more than one browser - clear the history of your "research" browser and go at your research there. When you want to do non-research browsing, open up a different program altogether.

Is there any way of making the already visited purple webpages more clearly visible (lets say dark purple in bold, for example)?

Create your own stylesheet and instruct your browser to override the author's style.

I did something like this recently, but not by design. I was trying out Phoenix 0.5 and while I had it open I began some keyword search that I knew I needed to do. For my next session I opened Opera, which is my default browser and I clear cache and history on exit. When I wanted to resume my research I had this sudden epiphany that the previous day's history would still be right there in Phoenix.

[vitaplease]

Thanks Tedster,

I guess thats a very straightforward solution!

I'll just try the Opera thing in parallel, as everybody here seems to be Opera minded.

I was hoping there would be some exotic browser where you can "add to history" by choice.

Create your own stylesheet and instruct your browser to override the author's style.

I'll have to dive into that. No idea how to do that overriding.