Saving URLs For Later reading?
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Do you use any software / web site / service to : 1) Save URLs 2) categorize those URLs 3) maybe even provide a little note as to why it is interesting (to remind yourself later) for later reading? Or, do you just use the browser's favs? -- I find browser favs a bit limiting. I often come upon material I want to organize into folders for reference and also just keep a _current_ reading list, but haven't found anything very good for that. Any suggestions?
I open it, then close it and it will be in my browser history.
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Looks like that is something I have to pay for though[^]. I should've added that I'm a cheapskate -- I thought software was free. :rolleyes: Yes, I make my living from Software Dev & I'm mostly kidding, but $99 / yr feels quite expensive. Thanks for your input. :thumbsup:
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The Science of King David's Court | Object Oriented Programming with C++
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Do you use any software / web site / service to : 1) Save URLs 2) categorize those URLs 3) maybe even provide a little note as to why it is interesting (to remind yourself later) for later reading? Or, do you just use the browser's favs? -- I find browser favs a bit limiting. I often come upon material I want to organize into folders for reference and also just keep a _current_ reading list, but haven't found anything very good for that. Any suggestions?
Why not use your browser's bookmark ability?
The Science of King David's Court | Object Oriented Programming with C++
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I open it, then close it and it will be in my browser history.
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The Science of King David's Court | Object Oriented Programming with C++
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Why not use your browser's bookmark ability?
The Science of King David's Court | Object Oriented Programming with C++
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Do you use any software / web site / service to : 1) Save URLs 2) categorize those URLs 3) maybe even provide a little note as to why it is interesting (to remind yourself later) for later reading? Or, do you just use the browser's favs? -- I find browser favs a bit limiting. I often come upon material I want to organize into folders for reference and also just keep a _current_ reading list, but haven't found anything very good for that. Any suggestions?
I use browser bookmarks - Chrome at least can have multiple folders and subfolders, so I have a lot of folders to navigate for some shortcuts. The nice bit is that they gets "shared" across devices, so my desktop, Surface, and Android phone all get the same ones.
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Do you use any software / web site / service to : 1) Save URLs 2) categorize those URLs 3) maybe even provide a little note as to why it is interesting (to remind yourself later) for later reading? Or, do you just use the browser's favs? -- I find browser favs a bit limiting. I often come upon material I want to organize into folders for reference and also just keep a _current_ reading list, but haven't found anything very good for that. Any suggestions?
Notepad.
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Do you use any software / web site / service to : 1) Save URLs 2) categorize those URLs 3) maybe even provide a little note as to why it is interesting (to remind yourself later) for later reading? Or, do you just use the browser's favs? -- I find browser favs a bit limiting. I often come upon material I want to organize into folders for reference and also just keep a _current_ reading list, but haven't found anything very good for that. Any suggestions?
I utilize Microsoft Edge It has a handy "Collections" feature which is conveniently activated via a button on the address bar I utilize it to collect web sites into categories which it supports In my usage e.g. to wit i.e. "Software Testing" "Computer Hardware" "C++" "News" "Dictionary" "Video" "Edge" "Tastey" "Software Development" "Science" "Music" and others Each category contains any number of urls - Cheerio
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Do you use any software / web site / service to : 1) Save URLs 2) categorize those URLs 3) maybe even provide a little note as to why it is interesting (to remind yourself later) for later reading? Or, do you just use the browser's favs? -- I find browser favs a bit limiting. I often come upon material I want to organize into folders for reference and also just keep a _current_ reading list, but haven't found anything very good for that. Any suggestions?
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Do you use any software / web site / service to : 1) Save URLs 2) categorize those URLs 3) maybe even provide a little note as to why it is interesting (to remind yourself later) for later reading? Or, do you just use the browser's favs? -- I find browser favs a bit limiting. I often come upon material I want to organize into folders for reference and also just keep a _current_ reading list, but haven't found anything very good for that. Any suggestions?
I just pull them from the URL line into a directory, dragging by the icon immediately preceding the text URL. I made myself a directory named 'Rechts' where I can sort the URLs in groups in multiple levels, I can search the page titles, sort on date saved etc. Most of all: I can do all the browser cleanup (history, bookmarks, ...) I want to do every now and then. Even reinstall Windows from scratch, to get rid of a lot of garbage in one sweep. (I keep all 'useful' files, including the Rechts directory, on other disks than C: and I've got a wizard-like tool for reinstalling all application software on C: after I have reinstalled Windows.) The Links are included in my backup plan. They can be used with any browser (at least all those that I use). I can add supplementary files in the Rechts directory (e.g. a username/pw reminder - note that I said 'reminder', not the pw itself!)
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probably just because I've got years of old bookmarks in there that I'm afraid to get rid of, also I'm lazy so basically it comes down to : Lazy-FUD - (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt with a healthy does of laziness). :-O
You can organise your browser bookmarks in multi-level folders. So I have a bunch of "permanent" bookmarks classified into folders, and a couple of "temporary" folders for your kind of usage. Delete them when read, or purge regularly. Or if it's a good'un, move it to somewhere in your permanents.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Do you use any software / web site / service to : 1) Save URLs 2) categorize those URLs 3) maybe even provide a little note as to why it is interesting (to remind yourself later) for later reading? Or, do you just use the browser's favs? -- I find browser favs a bit limiting. I often come upon material I want to organize into folders for reference and also just keep a _current_ reading list, but haven't found anything very good for that. Any suggestions?
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Do you use any software / web site / service to : 1) Save URLs 2) categorize those URLs 3) maybe even provide a little note as to why it is interesting (to remind yourself later) for later reading? Or, do you just use the browser's favs? -- I find browser favs a bit limiting. I often come upon material I want to organize into folders for reference and also just keep a _current_ reading list, but haven't found anything very good for that. Any suggestions?
I use Slant[^] for recommendations, and also the list with URL's under my profile to find something, it does not have any advanced searching options though. Here are some bookmark managers[^]
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Do you use any software / web site / service to : 1) Save URLs 2) categorize those URLs 3) maybe even provide a little note as to why it is interesting (to remind yourself later) for later reading? Or, do you just use the browser's favs? -- I find browser favs a bit limiting. I often come upon material I want to organize into folders for reference and also just keep a _current_ reading list, but haven't found anything very good for that. Any suggestions?
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Do you use any software / web site / service to : 1) Save URLs 2) categorize those URLs 3) maybe even provide a little note as to why it is interesting (to remind yourself later) for later reading? Or, do you just use the browser's favs? -- I find browser favs a bit limiting. I often come upon material I want to organize into folders for reference and also just keep a _current_ reading list, but haven't found anything very good for that. Any suggestions?
If it's an interesting website I save it to my bookmarks. If it is an article that I want to "save" I use CutePDF to print it to a PDF file and store it in a folder.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Do you use any software / web site / service to : 1) Save URLs 2) categorize those URLs 3) maybe even provide a little note as to why it is interesting (to remind yourself later) for later reading? Or, do you just use the browser's favs? -- I find browser favs a bit limiting. I often come upon material I want to organize into folders for reference and also just keep a _current_ reading list, but haven't found anything very good for that. Any suggestions?
Instapaper works well for me (and it strips out the ads)
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Instapaper works well for me (and it strips out the ads)
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Do you use any software / web site / service to : 1) Save URLs 2) categorize those URLs 3) maybe even provide a little note as to why it is interesting (to remind yourself later) for later reading? Or, do you just use the browser's favs? -- I find browser favs a bit limiting. I often come upon material I want to organize into folders for reference and also just keep a _current_ reading list, but haven't found anything very good for that. Any suggestions?
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Do you use any software / web site / service to : 1) Save URLs 2) categorize those URLs 3) maybe even provide a little note as to why it is interesting (to remind yourself later) for later reading? Or, do you just use the browser's favs? -- I find browser favs a bit limiting. I often come upon material I want to organize into folders for reference and also just keep a _current_ reading list, but haven't found anything very good for that. Any suggestions?
I highly recommend viewing this YouTube video ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y9GAn5KF4E 'Using Zotero and Freeplane for research' He started using Freeplane (a mindmapping tool) to record his web and business activities, then later added Zotero to extend its capabilities. Both Freeplane and Zotero are open-source and free, and each have their own Wikipedia entries. From his YouTube video, follow his channel to get several more useful tips. I maintain my Web activities chronologically in a very large single mindmap, and occasionally export interesting chunks to new mindmaps specialising in a particular category. Or zip up a small map (readable text html) and email it to a friend/colleague. The map can be searched to quickly locate any page that was annotated eg 'codeproject' or 'raspberry pi'. Graham
