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It does not. See FAQ here: https://pinboard.in/upgrade/
This is the advantage to Evernote. Since it’s a browser extension, it has access to anything you have access to.
> We can avoid jquery and bootstrap Amen to that at least. Nothing bums me out more than someone using jquery just for a simple DOM selection, or having a simple layout and using bootstrap just because you know their columns.
If you want a simple CSS framework (because you don't want to write CSS) that includes a grid system, Milligram is a useful alternative.
I keep them yearly in sub directories marked by year, it's pretty convienient and you can rename each Maff to be most relevant to a directory view, special pages go below the year directory.
currently only waterfox still has this option, since the snooty mozilla guys can't bring themselves to carry on a 15 year WORKING method that wasn't Not Invented Here...
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I'm glad you mention Evernote. I also use it for this, and also for many other purposes. It is true that it is propietary software but it is worth mentioning that all the content can be exported as an .enex file, which is xml. So, the data can be easily exported.
> easily exported Have you actually looked at such an xml: https://gist.github.com/evernotegists/6116886 Exported sure, it's all there. But importing that into your new favorite notes application is not going to be trivial, especially not for regular users. That's why I've decided to stick mostly to regular files in a filesystem.
Joplin, for example, can import notes exported from Evernote. It's just a menu option that even regular users should have no trouble employing.
Maff, Mht, it's the best way I found to save snapshots of websites. if you want to save an entire site, there's PDF. I keep them yearly in sub directories marked by year, it's pretty convienient and you can rename each Maff to be most relevant to a directory view, special pages go below the year directory. currently only waterfox still has this option, since the snooty mozilla guys can't bring themselves to carry on…
someone needs to bring this feature back.
waterfox is only 64 bit, i wish it could be a replacement for the rotting mozilla firefoxes that I can't upgrade.....
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When I studied media science one of the most lasting experiences I had was a talk with one lady of the viennese film museum (on of the few film museums that store actual films instead of film props). As a digital native I never gave it a thought, but she told me that there is a collective memory gap in films that have been shot or stored digitally. With stuff that has been stored on film, there was always soem copy i…
> With digital technology this became much much harder and costly for them, because it often means cobbling together the last working tape players I think something might be getting lost in translation. Could she have meant “electronic” rather than “digital” (which to me suggests digital media such as DVD etc) This whole anecdote makes more sense to me with this substitution.
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Having to pay $15/month ($180/yr!) to be able to search stuff on my own computer for years seems awfully expensive. I'd rather depend on some simple open-source piece of software that I can understand and maintain if necessary.
Decades ago there was an amazing piece of software from lotus when I worked there called magellan. I remember the first time I saw someone search, and find results in text documents, spreadsheets and many other of the common formats of the day. That was in 1989 and today I mostly search my computer using find and grep commands, since that's what just keeps working.
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This was what made me convert from bookmarking to clipping pages into Evernote around 6-7 years ago. I realized I had this huge archive of reference bookmarks that were almost useless because 1) I could rarely find what I was looking for, if I even remembered I'd bookmarked something in the first place, and 2) if I did, it was likely gone anyway. With Evernote I can full text search anything I've clipped in the past…
I find Evernote's search isn't that good, at least in the free version. Often trying to remember keywords and using Google is faster. I know about DevonThink, i read good recommendations. But it's IOS/Mac only. Any Evernote alternative for Win/Android with great search ?
There's no reason why a web browser bookmark action doesn't automatically create a WARC (web archive) format. Heck, with the cost of storage so low, recording every webpage you ever visit in searchable format is also very realistic. Imagine having the last 30 years of web browsing history saved on your local machine. This would especially be useful when in research mode and deep diving a topic. [1] https://github.com…
I like the idea, but wanted to know how realistic it would be so I made a quick and dirty Python script to download all my bookmarks. If you want to make the same experiment, you can get it from here: https://gist.github.com/ksamuel/fb3af1345626cb66c474f38d8f03... It requires Python 3.8 (just the stdlib) and wget. I have 3633 bookmarks, for a total of 1.5 Go unziped, 1.0 Go zipped (and we know we can get more from be…
There used to be this neat little extension called Read It Later that let you do just that. Bookmark and save it so you could read it when you were offline or the page disappeared. Later they changed their name and much later Mozilla bought it and added it to Firefox without a way to opt out. It was renamed to Pocket.