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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I use raindrop.io
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This is probably the most promising response I've received. I shouldn't be surprised, since your comments about Ulysses are also some of the most hopeful ones on note-taking software I've seen. 🙇♂️
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A few questions if you feel inclined:
1. How do PDFs, videos, etc fit into this for you?
2. How do you relate Raindrop entries to your notes?
3. Do you care about offline archiving? If so, how do you achieve that?
4. Do you have a full-text search strategy?
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1. All things that have a link go to Raindrop. Everything else goes to Dropbox — still looking for a better solution, lmk if you find one!
2. I just paste the link directly from the note to the item. Haven't found myself needing references in the other direction yet
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3. I mostly don't — when I do I use Dropbox
4. I used to have an workflow to get the content of all my instapaper'd articles into a .txt file in my Dropbox to allow for full text searching, but it was flakey
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My inspiration was this theverge.com/2012/12/10/374 (probably one of the 2 or 3 good articles published on The Verge.) E's full text search & OCR is great bc my most frequent lookup is in the form of "I remember reading a quote that included '[phrase]'" & I can pull it up.
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This is helpful, thank you! How do you browse/search across e.g. papers, web articles, quotes you've pasted in Evernote, etc?
Few ways: browse, open the notebook the category of `x` I’m looking for; scroll if recent; search from top-right (rarely using advanced search;) + new game changer: enabling Spotlight indexing can pull up any note/content. Don’t use many tags.
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