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> I don’t have a good workflow and can’t even imagine one. NOOOO problem. Simple solution. In one word, text. Two words, text editor. E.g., this Hacker New

> I don’t have a good workflow and can’t even imagine one. NOOOO problem. Simple solution. In one word, text. Two words, text editor. E.g., this Hacker News thread is at: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=42988455&goto=item%3Fid%3D42988158%2342988455 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=42988455&goto=item%3Fi... Sooooo, have that URL and the title of this thread in a simple, old-fashioned, file, text file, maintained with my favorite editor. Then, when want to revisit this thread, use the editor's excellent text search facilities to find the URL, and then, via a simple editor macro I wrote, one keystroke, and, bam, boom, have the Web page displayed via my pre-selected Web browser. Text. Keep nearly everything important in just text. Source code of .NET for my startup's Web site? Text, never anything but text. Visual Studio? No thanks: Did I mention text? Posts at Hacker News? Text, both for my posts and those of everyone else. File system directory tree? Uh, again the T-word, with the tree from the Rexx function SysFileTree. In the editor, can sort on date, size, name, etc.

metalman 2y ago
That is a good way of doing it, and I will cobble something like it together. Right now, I am bookmarking to my phones home page, useing an alternative browser that lets me sset domain settings for each web site, java script, cookies, DOM,which add blockers, font, etc, etc,etc. It works for me, and when it breaks a site, that is often a good indication that its run by rabid advertationalists, and data thieves, and there wont be any content worth the trouble. I do have another browser running crome, to access(briefly) the sites that I cant find an alternative to, but I wipe the cache every once in a while. The difference between the shiny one and the browser* that retains local control, is stark. *stoutner privacy browser, apk on fdroid
skydhash 2y ago
I have a bookmark file, but I haven't updated it in some while. The bookmark feature in browsers serves only two functions for me. Important sites, which I pin to the toolbar, and important history landmarks that I just chug down in "Others" (firefox) which is sorted by dates. I rely on the actual history for search (libraries docs,...).

metalman 2y ago

That is a good way of doing it, and I will cobble something like it together. Right now, I am bookmarking to my phones home page, useing an alternative browser that lets me sset domain settings for each web site, java script, cookies, DOM,which add blockers, font, etc, etc,etc. It works for me, and when it breaks a site, that is often a good indication that its run by rabid advertationalists, and data thieves, and there wont be any content worth the trouble. I do have another browser running crome, to access(briefly) the sites that I cant find an alternative to, but I wipe the cache every once in a while. The difference between the shiny one and the browser* that retains local control, is stark. *stoutner privacy browser, apk on fdroid

skydhash 2y ago

I have a bookmark file, but I haven't updated it in some while. The bookmark feature in browsers serves only two functions for me. Important sites, which I pin to the toolbar, and important history landmarks that I just chug down in "Others" (firefox) which is sorted by dates. I rely on the actual history for search (libraries docs,...).