...sending myself an email
Email as inbox - do you ever actually process it, or does it just pile up with everything else?
Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?
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Re: Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?
#22My system is basically a 'digital graveyard' if I don't use full-text search. I moved everything to Obsidian because it's just Markdown files on my drive. For links, I use a simple Telegram bot I wrote that dumps everything into a CSV. Low tech, but it’s the only thing I’ve actually stuck with for more than a year.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?
#23I pin "Note To Self" in Signal and drop important stuff there. For less important stuff I have a Matrix room on my own server.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?
#24I use a selfhosted flatnotes install with a cronjob commiting the changes to a private github repository.
Works pretty well
Re: Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?
#25Tools: Zettlr for notes. user?weird_tentacles explained the concept of zellelkasten. These are synced to a cloud folder so I have access to them on the move. Blog: Compiling notes into 'new' knowledge is challenging and interesting. I try to keep on doing what I did in postgrad research.
Zettlr is underrated. When you're compiling notes into something new - how do you find the right notes to pull together? Do you browse, search, or does the linking do the work?
Memory, notes hierarchy and filename (I tend to keep notes conceptually atomic and not just the date/time as a filename), tag search, free text search, citation backsearch; I have a bibtex library linked but that's mainly focused on maintaining references to published work- I use JabRef but IMHO that's really too heavy for what I use it for.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?
#26I’m also a “text myself” kind of person. I’m using my own chat-based notes app called tetrify, which is now adopting the Matrix protocol for sync.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?
#27I used to keep everything in Obsidian, but I recently switched to keeping notes in Obsidian and links and articles in Karakeep (self-hosted).
One of many things that I like about Karakeep is that when you save a link it captures both a screenshot and text from the page, and uses AI to create tags and a summary for the link. Basically it automatically categorizes everything that you save.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?
#28I’m also a “text myself” kind of person. I’m using my own chat-based notes app called tetrify, which is now adopting the Matrix protocol for sync.
ooh, that's cool - come tell us about it in matrix.to/#/#twim:matrix.org when it's ready :)
Re: Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?
#29using obsidian for notes raindrop.io for bookmarks and have my own jekyll template just for public links
Re: Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?
#30My only friction with hierarchy-type store of bookmarks is the orthogonal labeling scheme remains poorly or unsupported.
Slapping a tag or two (or many) is bandaid.
Need a way to navigate a tree for a bookmark that is repeatedly tagged and filed across hierarchy.
Perfect example: retirement, budget, investment firms, reviewed
Each day has a focus, and it often arrives differently to a same bookmark.
Handcrafted Wikipedia category tree is a good start but still no navigation panel and a search box thereof.