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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I mentioned it 🤣!
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Replying to @andy_matuschak
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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I'm sorry, y'all! The mentions tab is being a bit too aggressive in its algorithmic filtering, it seems.