I always wonder why nobody else does it, but its a very pleasing experience to have an archive like this - and it has proven very valuable in production crunche

I always wonder why nobody else does it, but its a very pleasing experience to have an archive like this - and it has proven very valuable in production crunches and peaceful moments of downtime, alike. Another thing it allows me to do is generalise my reading in real time - I know I can always come back to the subject of the PDF in a few days time, or whenever really, without needing to know where to find the details: I just grep my file tree, and mine the data that way. Key thing is, though, that when saving the PDF, I always check that it is named a decent subject, derived from the <title> tags .. if there isn't one, I add it myself. This is the only place I pay attention to 'tagging an article' - in naming the file of a poorly-named page, but if the page title fits the subject, I don't change a thing. And it means I have a huge set of data also in the filenames, not just the contents themselves .. Periodically, I use 'detox' on my PDFArchive/ directory, also .. this helps with consistent-naming for regexes, and so on. I keep getting the itch to put all this into a DB with proper indexing or whatever, but .. actually using plain ol' shell tools is turning out to be just as productive. Its a big set of data, but plain ol' files and pipes is proving to be all I really need to get the data mined ..