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This is specifically something some coworkers and I were discussing the other day. Someone said, “I want to ask it where I read an article about (some topic) la
by cmpalmer52 2y ago
This is specifically something some coworkers and I were discussing the other day. Someone said, “I want to ask it where I read an article about (some topic) last week.” or “I remember seeing that when I was researching something else. I wish I’d saved the URL.”
So I’m on board, if just for browser use (as long as it exclude private browsing, of course).
- skydhash 2y ago> So I’m on board, if just for browser use (as long as it exclude private browsing, of course). Why not just use your browser history?
- cmpalmer52 2y agoNeedle in a haystack when you’ve opened and closed several hundred tabs and you’re trying to find some random fact you ran across a week or two ago.
- mburns 2y agohttps://www.browserparrot.com/ https://www.browserparrot.com/
- perkolator 2y agoMy browser history seems to work fine for this. Recording everything on the screen for this use case is completely absurd.
- cheald 2y agoFWIW, I've gotten in the habit of using Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/ https://www.zotero.org/) with a browser extension to do this. If I read something that I think I might want to reference later, I just hit an extension button and it gets slurped into Zotero with a bunch of information indexed for retrieval later.
- coderatlarge 2y agoHow much better is that than safari export-to-pdf and spotlight?
- dialup_sounds 2y agoDifferent, not strictly better. Zotero saves a SingleFile html snapshot and will save the original URL and extracted metadata in its database, which is handy if you use Zotero anyway, but unnecessary if you just want to save text. Additionally you'd need to use Zotero to search it instead of Spotlight.
- voltaireodactyl 2y agoFWIW AnyBox also will save SingleFile archives and make them searchable to spotlight. Big fan.