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by godot 2436 days ago
I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority among HN crowd, but I don't do any of this. I still read a lot of articles and links. When I find something interesting I tend to read it immediately. (guilty of taking time to read during work; though some of these are work-related, some not.)

After I read it I roughly remember the topic, though not the details. At a later point if a conversation comes up or if something at work relates to that content, I roughly remember something about it, then google (or DDG if you prefer) for the piece again with some keywords I remember.

This has served me quite well for many many years and I don't really spend any of the time most people here spend with note-taking and maintaining a personal knowledge base. There were a few times I can remember myself failing to google a piece I wanted because I either can't remember enough keywords from it or the article is too obscure to find, but majority of the time I'm ok.