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I find it good to have a two tier system: first tier are things you “like”. You thought it was cool but 90 percent of the time you will never look at it again.
by j7ake 3y ago
I find it good to have a two tier system: first tier are things you “like”. You thought it was cool but 90 percent of the time you will never look at it again.
However, if you need to find it again a second or third time, then put some effort into putting those things in a permanent and easy to access storage, maybe even physical.
This way you keep only things you really love, rather than a gigantic horde of mediocre things you thought was cool at the time but is not useful.
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- alpaca128 3y agoThe number of videos on YT alone that could not be found again a second time or that were just replaced with [deleted video] from the list of favorites without any hint what video it even was is easily in the two digits by now. Sometimes you simply don't remember the title accurately enough to ever find it again. Hundreds of my bookmarks cannot be accessed anymore. Nope, I just download everything that I really like. Storage is cheap.
- j7ake 3y agoDownloading everything you like is first tier. The second time you search for it, that thing gets put in another tier away from the vast sea of no longer useful things.
- RetroTechie 3y agoPhysical storage under your own control, rules. But when choosing what to save or not, I do apply some criteria: * Popular / obscure? Obscure stuff may disappear easily. Popular stuff will be online somewhere. * Freely available, or paywalled content? (how easy to obtain) * Recently released, or 'oldie'? See above. * Storage space (+ download time!). I'll be much more critical about saving a multi-GB BluRay rip than some funny pics, a few-hundred KB pdf or game dump for 30y old console. * An educated guess about whether I'll ever want to use it again. So what I end up saving, tends to be on the smaller side, sometimes difficult-to-find-online, and with 'replay value' (broadly defined). Watch once & forget movie -> delete. I don't want to devote brain cells (now, or in future) on stuff that isn't worth revisiting.
- deepserket 3y ago> without any hint what video it even was I found that the wayback machine is really useful to get the title of the video, especially for songs.