When you spend much of your Online life in notepad writing your little heart out, you tend to copy and paste a lot. You want to get quotes. You want to get information. You might even want to save a block of text to read later. With the citation extension for Firefox, you can do all of that and more.

Here is what the folks working on the extension have to say about it:

The Citations project is a simple extension that allows the user to select a text in a Web page and put it in a special bookmark file. Citations are stored in a RDF file and can be browsed in a HTML view.

It is easy enough to use. All you need to do is highlight the text you want to save, then select “Save citation”. After that, fill in an author link if you want, then hit save.

Managing your citations is just as easy. All you need to do is right click and select “Mange citations”. After that a window should come up with all your citations in a neat table for you to view. From there you can either navigate back to the Web site where you found the quote or you can delete the quote from the citation manager.

Now the extension itself could save to a prettier back end, but that will probably come in a future release. Other than that, I see no reason at all why the Citations project should not be installed. It adds loads of functionality to everybody’s favorite browser, and it is totally free to use.