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If I need to save a page I've read on mobile, I mail myself the link to my desktop and print it there, where the PDF Archive lives. Its muscle memory at this p

If I need to save a page I've read on mobile, I mail myself the link to my desktop and print it there, where the PDF Archive lives. Its muscle memory at this point. Still, would be nice if the Browser vendors would cotton on to how powerful this is, and make the whole thing a bit more seamless for the mobile/desktop bridge, or just make Print-to-PDF work more smoothly for this case on mobile. Either way, I also have a list of every mail I've ever sent myself containing a URL from mobile, which is handy in and of itself at times, hehe ..

WanderPanda 6y ago
On iOS you can easily create a shortcut for the share-sheet to creat pdf prints fyi
- fit2rule 6y ago
  Yeah, I should probably set that up some time, but I've become reliant on my muscle memory for my forwarding-to-desktop flow ..
rakoo 6y ago
The advantage of doing it on the desktop is that you get to print the desktop version of the site. There probably is an avenue to automate printing from your desktop as soon as it receives the email; who knows, maybe even The inconvenient of your way is that your bookmarks are only available on the Desktop, from your mobile all you can have is the list of URLs you sent yourself. It's still probably better than having some service running all the time you want to query though. Your system is surprisingly "low-tech" and sounds extremely interesting, I'm tempted to start doing it as well. Do you have any kind of organization or viewer for your stack of PDFs, or are they just files amassed on your hard drive ?
- fit2rule 6y ago
  I print to the Desktop, then clean it up at the end of the day by moving the files into what is admittedly a massive collection of files in a single directory .. On one hand, it seems messy - but on the other hand, its incredibly useful to use shell tools to manipulate/harvest the data in that directory. And as for the mobile/desktop issue: I just sync my PDF dir to my mobile phone, and carry it all with me, anyway. The mobile version is not as grep'able, but its pretty neat to have every interesting website I've ever cared enough about to print-to-PDF with me in my pocket, even if it is a nearly un-navigable list of 20,000+ files to scroll through, hehe ..
nl 6y ago
You can do this from mobile (on Android, maybe Chrome on iOS?) Go Share...-> Chrome (Print) --> (Brings up "Save to PDF" (!!)) --> Save to Drive (and then sync this drive to your computer). You could also save to Dropbox or whatever other syncing service you choose.

WanderPanda 6y ago

On iOS you can easily create a shortcut for the share-sheet to creat pdf prints fyi

fit2rule 6y ago
Yeah, I should probably set that up some time, but I've become reliant on my muscle memory for my forwarding-to-desktop flow ..

rakoo 6y ago

The advantage of doing it on the desktop is that you get to print the desktop version of the site. There probably is an avenue to automate printing from your desktop as soon as it receives the email; who knows, maybe even The inconvenient of your way is that your bookmarks are only available on the Desktop, from your mobile all you can have is the list of URLs you sent yourself. It's still probably better than having some service running all the time you want to query though. Your system is surprisingly "low-tech" and sounds extremely interesting, I'm tempted to start doing it as well. Do you have any kind of organization or viewer for your stack of PDFs, or are they just files amassed on your hard drive ?

fit2rule 6y ago
I print to the Desktop, then clean it up at the end of the day by moving the files into what is admittedly a massive collection of files in a single directory .. On one hand, it seems messy - but on the other hand, its incredibly useful to use shell tools to manipulate/harvest the data in that directory. And as for the mobile/desktop issue: I just sync my PDF dir to my mobile phone, and carry it all with me, anyway. The mobile version is not as grep'able, but its pretty neat to have every interesting website I've ever cared enough about to print-to-PDF with me in my pocket, even if it is a nearly un-navigable list of 20,000+ files to scroll through, hehe ..

nl 6y ago

You can do this from mobile (on Android, maybe Chrome on iOS?) Go Share...-> Chrome (Print) --> (Brings up "Save to PDF" (!!)) --> Save to Drive (and then sync this drive to your computer). You could also save to Dropbox or whatever other syncing service you choose.