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This is the sort of post that I find myself wanting to click a button and have it indexed into my personal information system, so that I can find it later without hoping that it doesn’t disappear from the Internet or fall off search indices before I need it.

In lieu of this mythical system, this post on HN.



Joplin has a great addon that can clip entire pages into a note (with various options such as convert to md or just plain html). Works great for articles but I imagine anything really JS heavy might fall over, although luckily I've never really had any problems with it myself.


Print to PDF -> put it in a “knowledge base” folder in your home dir -> find it (or anything else) later using full-text search with, e.g. Houdahspot. Simple and durable. I store thousands of articles this way going back years. Search-first interfaces are great.


Add the Markdownload Markdown Web Clipper extension to your browser. Exists for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, as well as Safari on MacOS and iOS.

Organize using whatever Markdown tool you like, from folders and OS search to Obsidian.md.


Use an online tagging service?

I use pinboard.in all the time. A lot of people seem to like raindrop which is newer and more maintained.


archive.org?




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