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  • For the most time I just kept tabs open or used the post save feature in Reddit, Mastodon and Lemmy. That way I collected dozens if not hundreds of things that were vaguely interesting but I never got around to looking at them anyomere and when I was looking for something specific I had to check multiple places, each with less than optimal search functions.

    Last year I decided to just create a personal wiki. MediaWiki is FOSS, easy to set up (especially with docker), accessible from all my devices and has a huge community because of Wikipedia. I have specific articles for different topics:

    • a list of things I might want to buy at some point
    • lists for books, movies, shows and games I want to read/watch/play in the future
    • a whole category of cooking recipes in a format that's more readable than the original versions where you have to scroll through ten pages of the author's life story, translated into my native language and with notes on what I changed from the original
    • articles for projects or questions that I never quite solve ("Where to buy custom printed LEGO minifigs?", "What scripting languages are easy to embed in a C# project?", "What's that weird bug that causes zfs to throw errors when my HDDs take a bit too long to wake up from sleep?") with partial answers.
    • articles about my friends with some basic facts like birthday, favorite color, favorite animals, allergies and things we'd like to do together at some point
    • and many more

    Whenever I find an interesting link, I check if I already have an article that it fits into and if not, I create one. That way everything is roughly grouped by topic, I can leave notes and I have a nice search function and even a history that keeps references to stuff I edited or deleted.

    Edit: the downside is that saving a link takes a bit longer, especially when I'm on my phone. Because of that I occasionally still save links the way I used to and if I still think they're relevant after a few days, I move them to the wiki.

  • I read it now, cos I'll never read it if I save it. But I reckon the best solution would be to bookmark it/write it down somewhere. Don't ever just open a new tab, you shouldn't have more than like 20 tabs, at that point you're just never gonna look at them. And don't use a paid solution, why tf would you ever pay for that, even if it syncs across devices there are a million free ways to do that.

  • I've been using Pinboard for a very long time (signed up when it was just a once off fee) but I want to switch to something self-hosted.

    I use Pinboard for two things:

    1. Articles I want to read later
    2. Articles I want to save in case I need them again (like bookmarks)

    I'd be interested in what you find if it's open-source, and if it can fulfill both use cases.

  • Linkwarden self hosted. I figured out a way to share to it on android until they release an official client.

  • Browser bookmarks. My trick is I make a new folder every month, for example “2024-01 Bookmarks”, and put it in the bookmarks bar. Whenever I realize I’m leaving a tab open because I want to look at it later, I put it into the current folder. That way I know it’s not lost and I give myself permission to close it.

    When a new month comes around, I stick the previous folder in an “Archive” section and make a new one. It costs nothing to keep them forever, but avoids the current list getting out of control.

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