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The internet has given us access to vast resources of knowledge; we have an ever-growing number of journals, publications and blogs at our disposal. Keeping up with this endless stream of exceptional supply of information can be tough, how many times you find something interesting to read, but don’t have time to read it right then? This happens too often.

The F1000Workspace browser extension solves this problem for you. It is a powerful add-on to F1000’s collaborative authoring tool that is available for all popular browsers. It allows you to save articles and PDFs as you browse with a single click. You can add notes (highlights and comments) to web pages, and add articles directly to F1000Workspace. Members of a shared project share their annotations promoting discussion and making the process of collecting relevant references much more efficient.

Whenever you come across an interesting article online just click the ‘F’ icon on your browser toolbar and the article will be stored in your personal library. This extension is packed with powerful features to stay efficient. Here are my top picks for you:

• Stay organised: When you are saving an article, you get the option to save it directly to your preferred project, or you can also create a new project while saving.

• Save multiple articles: In a journal or a search engine, if you find listing of multiple articles which you find interesting and want to explore further later on, you have the option to select and save multiple articles together.

• Citation data and PDF: When you save an article, the extension automatically saves the full citation data. If the article is Open Access, F1000Workspace will automatically download and attach the PDF for you.

• Highlight and notes: The browser extension allows you to save references, and highlight sections of a reference that are interesting with the option of adding notes.

• Unlimited reference storage: You can save unlimited number of references and PDFs, they are saved over the cloud, so you can access them from any device.

Manish Sahni is Head of User Experience at F1000.