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Re: Ask HN: How do you save and browse external interesting URLs?

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Post by rickoooooo »

l72 wrote: post #27

I run an instance of yacy (in non-distributed Robinson mode). Any interesting links I add to my index (with a crawl depth of 0 since I only want that page, not the whole site). This gives me a good search history, plus it automatically creates a cache of the page!

I just set up a YaCy instance myself last week after being inspired by your post on hackernews from ~7 months ago. Thanks for sharing that. I found some other helpful resources online for this too. I wrote about my configuration in case it might be helpful for anyone else who'd like yo play with YaCy for bookmarking. I haven't had it up long enough to know how useful it will be for me yet, but its been fun to play with. I also wrote an Android app to help me index specific pages from my mobile device with just a few taps.

https://www.richardosgood.com/posts/yacy-personal-search-eng...

Re: Ask HN: How do you save and browse external interesting URLs?

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Post by theshrike79 »

If I feel a specific command is something I need often or is too tedious to figure out how to do from scratch every time, I put it in Obsidian.

For links I used to use pinboard.in with archiving, but I'm seriously considering moving to randrop.io just because pinboard's only admin is a bit too flaky for my taste.

Re: Ask HN: How do you save and browse external interesting URLs?

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Post by sleepresolved »

For me, a Pinboard account with pin-via-bookmarklet set in browser, and the app on my phone. Then an Inoreader account loaded with feeds, mark-as-read via scroll enabled. Fly thru things a couple times a week - open interesting things in a new tab. Once I've hit a critical mass of interesting articles open, check 'em out and hit the bookmarklet as needed to save permanently.

Then I visit Pinboard or its feed mostly as those topics come back up again in conversation or work.

I treat it as kind of a short term cache, I don't worry about organizing them - most things are interesting but maybe not necessary to revisit but I feel good to have available. Every once in a while though, it captures a gem I level up from or keep coming back to or want to share out, and that's what it's about.

Re: Ask HN: How do you save and browse external interesting URLs?

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Post by dylanzhangdev »

Hi, I have the same problem and I found a method that works for me. I bookmark or scribble into my phone memo every week that I see interesting or useful links — articles, software, frameworks, code repositories, cool websites, etc. Every Saturday I will take a few hours to review and organize these resources, and write a markdown document.

I've been on it for 24 weeks and am sure I can keep doing it. Reorganizing and thinking will be more rewarding. When I need to find a resource but I can't remember it, I will turn on the computer and use vscode's fuzzy search (it may be more convenient to make an online search entry, which is enough for now).

For reference: https://github.com/theseazhang/weekly_news

Re: Ask HN: How do you save and browse external interesting URLs?

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Post by dylanzhangdev »

dylanzhangdev wrote: post #66

Hi, I have the same problem and I found a method that works for me. I bookmark or scribble into my phone memo every week that I see interesting or useful links — articles, software, frameworks, code repositories, cool websites, etc. Every Saturday I will take a few hours to review and organize these resources, and write a markdown document. I've been on it for 24 weeks and am sure I can keep doing it. Reorganizing an…

To me, not a lot of stuff is worth including. Every week I feel that there is not much worth writing down. By reviewing by date, I can easily see the process of my growth or changing interests.

Re: Ask HN: How do you save and browse external interesting URLs?

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Post by dylanzhangdev »

alexpetralia wrote: post #7

I 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…

Our solution is so close that I put it into the github repository. I don't like to depend on any software, vscode is good enough for me. The key problem is this: there isn't that much valuable information worth recording each week. Just saving doesn't solve the problem, it requires understanding and thinking, as well as regular review.
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