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Christopher:
It's not really possible to separate the method from the tool.
I clip everything I might want to refer to again into Evernote. I tend to clip rather than just bookmark because the internet is a transient medium and stuff disappears off it. I have over 10,000 notes, all of which are easily findable through keywords and search.
These notes range from a few words to entire books. Plus loads of photos and an art gallery selection.
On the rare occasions I want to find something I haven't got in Evernote, I search my browsing data history.
It's not really possible to separate the method from the tool.
I clip everything I might want to refer to again into Evernote. I tend to clip rather than just bookmark because the internet is a transient medium and stuff disappears off it. I have over 10,000 notes, all of which are easily findable through keywords and search.
These notes range from a few words to entire books. Plus loads of photos and an art gallery selection.
On the rare occasions I want to find something I haven't got in Evernote, I search my browsing data history.
November 10, 2020 at 9:03 |
Mark Forster
Mark Forster
I find that sorting by keyword alone becomes a problem with bigger databases. Let's say I save five pages from this site and file them under time-management. So far so good, but at 500 items under that heading that becomes a problem.
How should these keywords best be managed? Maybe a hierarchy of keywords?
How should these keywords best be managed? Maybe a hierarchy of keywords?
November 11, 2020 at 20:24 |
Christopher
Christopher
I also use Evernote to save things -- it really is easy to clip text and images from websites.
(However, see http://markforster.squarespace.com/forum/post/2776414 )
Also, one trick for URLs for this site -- if you want to link to a specific comment (not just the main post), find some likely-unique phrase in the text of the comment, and search in the Search This Site box, using full quotes. This will give you a link to the exact comment.
For example, this is the link to this page:
http://markforster.squarespace.com/forum/post/2776270
But this is the link to my specific comment here:
http://markforster.squarespace.com/forum/post/2776270#post2776415
(However, see http://markforster.squarespace.com/forum/post/2776414 )
Also, one trick for URLs for this site -- if you want to link to a specific comment (not just the main post), find some likely-unique phrase in the text of the comment, and search in the Search This Site box, using full quotes. This will give you a link to the exact comment.
For example, this is the link to this page:
http://markforster.squarespace.com/forum/post/2776270
But this is the link to my specific comment here:
http://markforster.squarespace.com/forum/post/2776270#post2776415
November 13, 2020 at 2:28 |
Seraphim
Seraphim
Seraphim, are you seriously telling me that all those wonderful links all these years came from you crawling this site when doing your posting?
(That would indeed be a productivity problem!)
Meanwhile I stumbled upon this discussion on Hacker News:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25073574
Yeah, I guess no more bookmarks for me. It's either an open tab or a "notes file" of some sort that may contain hyperlinks or not…
It's still a work in progress though.
(That would indeed be a productivity problem!)
Meanwhile I stumbled upon this discussion on Hacker News:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25073574
Yeah, I guess no more bookmarks for me. It's either an open tab or a "notes file" of some sort that may contain hyperlinks or not…
It's still a work in progress though.
November 23, 2020 at 17:26 |
Christopher
Christopher
LOL I guess I am pretty fast with search - whether searching this site or searching my Evernote files.
There is a side advantage of searching this site for some specific post I want to link: discovering all kinds of interesting old blog posts and discussions that I had completely forgotten about. :-)
There is a side advantage of searching this site for some specific post I want to link: discovering all kinds of interesting old blog posts and discussions that I had completely forgotten about. :-)
November 24, 2020 at 17:04 |
Seraphim
Seraphim
How do you do it? Seraphim specially but everybody else as well. How do you keep your web bookmarks in order and well usable?
Any tips?
(I mean method, not software tools.)