I don't. Why would I? I can probably find it again. And if I can't, no biggie, there's always something else to deal with. And in the end it's online, offline is always more important.
Ask HN: How do you keep track of all the content you encounter?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of all the content you encounter?
#72I copy links in several (desktop, laptop, cellphone) text files, so I can grep them. For fuzzy search there is tre-agrep, or Whoosh for Python.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of all the content you encounter?
#73Save it to a "read it later" app. Forget all about it. Move on with life. When you need something, search for it. By that time, there will be a hundred other hits saying or doing the same thing. If you really want to remember something, write it down in a giant text file with a date stamp. You'll still forget it, but you'll more likely remember it exists later if you need it. Next step is to stop spending "a lot of t…
Being too often on HN is clearly destructive for me. Seeing a post about some advanced stuff where I don't understand anything in the article and seeing dozen of different people commenting on it gives me such an imposter syndrome. My mind goes into the "HN is for people like you, you should know this stuff"
I spend too much time on hn, but don't think I share your approach. Either I learn something, enjoy reading it (or both), or skip the issue alltogether. Is everything where you think "you should know this stuff" actually relevant to you, or just interesting?
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of all the content you encounter?
#74Currently I'm dumping everything to Chrome-bookmarks and Notion in broadly categorised pages(like income, physics, fitness, etc).
I move the most interesting ones to my Google-Keep, which I use as my short-term daily checklist.
I'm planning to eventually migrate all of this to Obsidian for a unified lightweight solution and setup live-sync across my devices.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of all the content you encounter?
#75I wanted something that I could organize "my way" and thought the html format was interesting since I could connect pieces of information together. Also something I could edit and update quickly - I settled on the combination of desktop+wiki+html... So about 5 odd years ago I started using zim https://zim-wiki.org/index.html (there are other tools too, I have just gotten used to it) - everytime I searched for somethi…
This might be the comment that helps me get back on my zim install. I abandoned it for "life stuff" and I was meaning to "find something similar, or pick zim back" for some months.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of all the content you encounter?
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Being too often on HN is clearly destructive for me. Seeing a post about some advanced stuff where I don't understand anything in the article and seeing dozen of different people commenting on it gives me such an imposter syndrome. My mind goes into the "HN is for people like you, you should know this stuff"
I spend too much time on hn, but don't think I share your approach. Either I learn something, enjoy reading it (or both), or skip the issue alltogether. Is everything where you think "you should know this stuff" actually relevant to you, or just interesting?
That's the issue with my mind, the filter between "I should know it" and "you'll learn it if you need it" is sometimes not working.
Like the post about Numba, the Python compiler. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34148455
I've never used Python, and probably won't ever use it, but some deep part of me "needs" to read the article.
It's harder for me to fight this insatiable desire to learn something unuseful, than to stop reading HN.