Twitter, do you have a system for your reference library—construed broadly to include web articles, images, games, videos, etc—not just papers?
Note-taking software feels ill-suited to the purpose; academic reference library apps too heavy for this; webapps are all too slow; etc
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Thank you for sharing, all! Reflections:
Many people suggested text-centric note-taking apps for this purpose. The interaction paradigm seems misaligned: I think of this need in terms of ubiquitous capture, seeing, connecting, searching, synthesizing, etc. Feels more like this.
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For me, the use case needs low-latency capture and meandering, which means local copies of everything and native performance.
No one mentioned DEVONthink, though it's a big player in this category. Unfortunately, its UI. Keep It is a nice new alternative, but fairly barebones.
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One common theme appeared to be that basically everyone was frustrated with their current solution! That's interesting.
Maybe it's hard to enter this market because everyone has very different conceptions of what they want from such a tool.
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I mentioned it 🤣!
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I haven’t used them myself but:
- reinventedsoftware.com/keepit/
- devontechnologies.com/apps/devonthink
... or maybe even Evernote 
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haha I was almost gonna reply to him saying you mentioned it!
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sorry if this is a silly Q but what's the advantage of native performance? my use is usually on wifi for this kind of thing so I've never noticed a page loading
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I used to use DEVONthink, but now I can’t seem to come up with any reason why just using files, the Finder and Spotlight should not have been sufficient.
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Notes (iOS and Mac) isn’t bad for words and links. Doesn’t work for images or video files (I use Photos, also Mac and iOS)