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I have a ghetto version of this - I just print web pages to PDF, and then archive the PDF locally to storage. I have every website of interest to me I've ever

• marttt 8y ago
  I like the robustness of this type of solutions, so here's a bunch of questions: Do you also use a folder hierarchy for separate topics, and-or a file naming scheme? And have you scripted the pdf generation to an extent, or is everything done by hand? (I suppose manual saving and pdf naming might work as a fairly nice "bullshit filter", at least for some period.) How much time does it usually take for you to store a link that way?
  • fit2rule 8y ago
    Folder hierarchy: nope. Just 15k+ files in a sub-directory. There is a reason for this: its just so convenient to grep for a subject I'm interested in, thus: $ ls -l | grep "hacker news" PDF Generation scripted? Also no. This is just a print-to-pdf hotkey away, no need to script it. The PDF names come from the title of the web page, so its sometimes necessary to adjust this and make my own title, but only about 2% of the time. Time to store? As much time as it takes to print most web pages to PDF - i.e. mere seconds. And there is so much data to be harvested in the collection - best of all, its all mine. No third-party gets to see it, collate the data, see where my interests are, sell me things, etc.