Ask IH: How do you organize your links/bookmarks and your favorite snippets / notes ?
Hello Makers (and non-makers)!
I am wondering how you guys organize your links/articles/videos from the internet and also your notes for those links. For example if you have an article that you like and have your favorite bits from this article and insights, how do you organize that information?
I don't. It's a huge mess that I get motivated to clean up someday, but then think about all the time I could use doing something else and give up before starting.
Why not use something else? What other apps have you considered?
You can find some interesting ideas here https://dev.to/fyodorio/how-do-you-manage-your-browser-bookmarks-1hcb
Thank you Fyodor. Have you finally found something for your bookmark situation??
No. I use raindrop.io for random temporary stuff, and Notes app for everything else (in connection to specific project note, to make it relevant). Basically, still looking for a good option.
I use a Google Sheets document for URLs and Google Keep for notes/ideas.
Hey @hendricks 👋🏾 are you satisfied with this process? Is there anything you think could be easier?
For web links I use my personal blog. I like WordPress because of the post-by-email feature. That combined with a Chrome plugin that takes the current page and generates an email, I can save a link and make notes on it in <30 seconds.
For dev bookmarks & code snippets I keep code files that output all results in an HTML table. I then use DataTables.js to make it really fast/easy to find the link I need and click on it. Happy to do a bit of a video walk through if anyone is interested.
Hope that helps,
Hi Simon id be interested to see how the whole thing works.
Short version: Dynalist + web clipper
Medium version:
1 - With a click, all links are saved into a document I called 'inbox'.
2 - At least daily, I check that 'inbox' doc and make sure all links are tagged and moved to their right places (other documents for that content format)
3 - I have an 'action' doc where I have to-dos and a reading list. This reading list only contains a handful of articles/links (out of the dozens/hundreds) which are the ones I find the most important to go through at that moment.
4 - Try to never read/watch/etc other stuff if it's not on your reading list. You put those links there for a reason.
5 - Once done, if the link stays it's tagged as #done and I add any notes to it as in any outlining tool.
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