That was the goal of the Memex proposed back in 1945, still unrealized. 8(
Ask HN: How do you save and browse external interesting URLs?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you save and browse external interesting URLs?
#12I take structured notes with Obsidian, then add a backlink to the resource. No bookmarking anymore because there's a probability of exactly 0% that I ever click on bookmarked resource again. Google indexes content, so you should index your own with obsidian and add semantic research on top.
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#14I take notes in Joplin in general and also use the Joplin web clipper [1] to make sure that I have all the interesting articles I read or want to read in markdown
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#15I use a system of personal knowledge management (PKM), which I've posted about before: 1. Capture: every interesting idea that I think up or read is immediately stored in Google Keep (on mobile or laptop). It can be very rough at this point, the goal is simply to not forget. 2. Transcribe & Organize: every weekend, I go through the notes I accumulated during the week. It tends to be between 10 and 30 notes. Sometimes…
The thing is, your system requires a lot of discipline. If I had discipline, I would almost not need a tool :/
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#16I wrote a small app to scan my comments and stories on hacker news. It would dump them into a postgres database and use the full text search to normalize the text of the articles to make for easy searching at a later date when I inevitably would think “where did I read that thing about this?”
Re: Ask HN: How do you save and browse external interesting URLs?
#17Sometimes I'll spend 15 minutes going through my (unordered) bookmarks and put them into folders, in the context of the things I'm working on. Some also get deleted.
There's a higher likelihood of them being deleted if they can't fit into a folder shared by other bookmarks.
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#18I used to think like that, stored everything in Pinboard, tagged properly. I also used to use nvalt ( https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/ ) for that as it had good search and I didn't have to switch to other tabs to search Pinboard. It felt good to "catalog" all this knowledge but in reality I never went back to it, just like bookmarks and I realized that if something is important enough I'll always be able to…
That's a very good point. I love the "the best solution to your problem is to realise you don't have a problem" mindset.
Re: Ask HN: How do you save and browse external interesting URLs?
#19I run into the same issue you do, and I just paste interesting links into Apple’s notes app since it’s convenient to use across my devices.
Personally I’ve found it useful to just scroll through it time to time to refresh my memory on what I’ve read/watched/listened to.
Maybe not the most ideal or fancy solution, but it works well for me, even as my note has gotten longer and longer.
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#20I see others have already mentioned software I use for categorisation, i.e. Google Keep, Obsidian. If you like bookmarks and/or you want to organize and tag yours, I've recently found raindrop.io