1stSource - Version 1.0 Gathering research information from the World Wide Web can be very time consuming - so try using 1stSource to improve your productivity. 1stSource combines a web site "favorites" facility with a powerful text editor and a freeform database, thus offering a full range of features for the internet researcher. Using nine categories, you can catalog all of your favorite web sites. Then as you visit these sites to gather information - simply copy and paste the information ( text and/or images ) into 1stSource.