People ask me where many of the references come from for my Hacker News comments, and besides the links I look up on the spot, most come from a text file I keep

People ask me where many of the references come from for my Hacker News comments, and besides the links I look up on the spot, most come from a text file I keep open all day in my text editor. For other writing projects, I have a lot of other text files. Now that text files recognize Unicode, I am very happy with a simple approach to storing information.