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?
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
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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 organized folders of bookmarks, and drag and drop the LOCK icon into the correct one. So, I have one for future reading, then by topic. I add topics as I discover. But I have experienced a few problems. One, due to censorship, I have clicked those links and been taken to alternative information or a 404 or a message telling me the article was forced down. How nice! The biggest one, is when the link CYCLES after 90 days to a more recent topic. Not Cool! And when I am doing research, I use an outliner, and I will store the links there, with tons of notes while I do my research. But tons of bookmarks. The one upside is when I open a page, and I see the STAR, I know I already planned on reading this...
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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 PearlTrees. I would rather have a system that allowed me to use multiple tags, rather than putting a link in multiple folders, but it works for me right now from any browser on any system.
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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 doesn't come in a pdf (or a single web page) that I can rename and date, I usually don't save it. And that's only if it deals with my immediate subject of interest. Later, everything gets archived with the project (no dead links).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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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 my browsers "bookmarks". Don't see what would be limiting with that, as I can easily create topics folders...
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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 Chrome, It has what is called a "reading list."
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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
Every couple of months I run the "All Bookmarks" browser in firefox. It lets me add folders, and I can add comments, though I usually don't. It also lets me change the name of the bookmark from the html title of the page to whatever I want, which is usually shorter.
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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?
Try pocket.com
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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 Pocket (getpocket.com), with a plugin for most browsers and an iOs app, it means the items I save at my desktop are available on my phone later.
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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 WordPad docs, can have comments and bold heading, search and click on links to open.
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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 you're interested in a more general Knowledge Management solution, check out the Zettelkasten Method[^]. There are a number of free (e.g. Emacs org-roam[^]) and commercial (e.g. Roam Research[^]) implementations.
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If you're interested in a more general Knowledge Management solution, check out the Zettelkasten Method[^]. There are a number of free (e.g. Emacs org-roam[^]) and commercial (e.g. Roam Research[^]) implementations.
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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 both Pinboard.in to store bookmarks with tags since it lets me search the full text of the link in addition to any text I include in the bookmark description I also use Pocket for articles or pages I want to read later since it can even read them out loud on my phone using text-to-speech. It even integrates with Pinboard via an API if you want.
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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?
For things I want to read right away (sometime before I reboot) I just open in a new tab (right click, Open in new tab; or just middle click - doesn't always work, but often enough). Sometimes in a new window. This is just for one-offs. Usually, I never come back to them after reading (and no big deal if I don't read them). For things I want to come back to more than once, I save it in Favorites and group by folders (often two levels deep, which gives me a general category and a specific sub-category/group). I also rename as appropriate. (Sometimes I use the browser collections feature, which also lets me group by name.) For things I want to share or incorporate into my work team's flow, I have a custom app that lets me build menus of URLs, MarkDown pages, database queries, and other menus. And I put them in there (as a direct menu page or content on a MarkDown page). I also use OneNote or Word (mostly if the context relates to an existing OneNote or Word document) and occasionally Excel. All options but the first allow some kind of custom tagging, either by renaming, grouping, or adding other contextual information.