a_protsyuk's comments

On: Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?

[a_protsyuk]

This is the fundamental problem with hierarchies - knowledge is multi-dimensional but folders are one-dimensional. You shouldn't have to decide if "Vanguard 2026 review" lives under /retirement or /budget or /investments. What if you could just search "retirement investment options I reviewed" and find it regardless of where it was filed - by meaning, not by path?

On: Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?

[a_protsyuk]

Chrome bookmarks + WhatsApp to self - classic combo. When you need to find a bookmark from months ago, do you actually find it or just google the thing again?

[agcat → a_protsyuk]

Actually i create sub folders with topics where i save them. So i mostly go through those folders to see

On: Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?

[a_protsyuk]

Email as inbox - do you ever actually process it, or does it just pile up with everything else?

[ZYZ64738 → a_protsyuk]

if it's worth i extract the core value out of the "conversation" with myself. could be a page in any knowledge base, a snippet in my ide, or whatever suits well... then the email thread goes either into archive or into data nirvanah.

On: Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?

[a_protsyuk]

Do you organize into folders, or just dump everything flat and rely on search?

On: Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?

[a_protsyuk]

Does the linking actually pay off when you need to find something, or do you mostly just search?

[LetsAutomate → a_protsyuk]

I do just search.

On: Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?

[a_protsyuk]

"Will probably regret it someday" - what's the thing you're most worried about losing?

[HardwareLust → a_protsyuk]

Google isn't exactly famous for maintaining their products. They'll kill it eventually, just a question of when.

On: Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?

[a_protsyuk]

  LogSeq with WebDAV - nice setup. Do you use it mostly for linked notes/graph, or more as a daily journal?

On: Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?

[a_protsyuk]

Zettlr is underrated. When you're compiling notes into something new - how do you find the right notes to pull together? Do you browse, search, or does the linking do the work?

[throwaway5465 → a_protsyuk]

Memory, notes hierarchy and filename (I tend to keep notes conceptually atomic and not just the date/time as a filename), tag search, free text search, citation backsearch; I have a bibtex library linked but that's mainly focused on maintaining references to published work- I use JabRef but IMHO that's really too heavy for what I use it for.

On: Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?

[a_protsyuk]

Self-hosted wiki - what software? And do you access it on mobile when you're out, or is it strictly home network?

[JohnFen → a_protsyuk]

I use Dokuwiki: https://www.dokuwiki.org/

I access it when I'm out and about, but do so through a VPN that I also run from my home. The wiki is not accessible except through the VPN.

Organizationally, I have a different section for general aspects of my life (household, programming, and hardware projects as well as hobbies such as camping, etc.). The front page is a general catch-all where I temporarily drop things that don't already have a home. I then organize them more formally later.

I make pretty heavy use of inter-page links to help organization of related things that aren't in the same "world". A lot like note-taking apps.

On: Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?

[a_protsyuk]

CherryTree looks interesting - hierarchical nodes. Do you split notes between Keep and CherryTree by type, or is there a different logic?