It's something that I'm mildly interested in because 1) finding the same thing on the Internet again is not always easy (the answer can be buried somewhere in t

It's something that I'm mildly interested in because 1) finding the same thing on the Internet again is not always easy (the answer can be buried somewhere in the search results, the site rankings change)[1], 2) going to the web browser can be distracting, 3) there are the odd situations when you don't have Internet connection. So here's my attempts. I store some annotated snippets in Joplin (could probably use org-mode or similar). I also collect programming ebooks and PDF'ed docs: sometimes you can still find them, sometimes you can 'print to PDF'. No idea how one would do it with javadoc for example. The problem is interface for searching this stuff locally and reading. I use recoll for full text search and qpdfview for PDF viewing (the main reason is that it has tabs). Admittedly, this is not completely satisfying. Simple text search doesn't have the sophistication, PDF's feel less pleasant than web pages. Maybe something I could get used to if I went fully that route, but for now I don't feel compelled to do that (besides some experimentation). My guess is that if you use a small language/libraries, or have a self-contained codebase, or do fairly rote things, it's possible to go without searching documentation. Otherwise... no? [1] Or you could use bookmarks, but then, why not archive.