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I don't collect things I "need to get to", if that makes sense. I collect things I'm willing to spend time curating, which generally means they go in a file somewhere under a directory called "References". References means music I like and art I want to study and writing I want to return to. If I want to have a log of what I was interested in, I privately journal about it(Which I am happily using Penzu[1] for). The trick to all personal information management, which recurringly appears in HN threads on the topic, is to focus on your filters, not your collection. You collect hastily, in anger; you are not a professional archivist with respect to your own collection. You will misspell and missort. But it is easy to punch "Save As" and get it in a file somewhere with a few words to search by. And so the filter, the post-hoc, is the greater necessity. Fortunately, when it's in the form of files, you can apply a mix of hierarchy, tag and search methods. There's software for this. I currently use TagSpaces[0]. I don't spend a great deal of effort manually tagging, I just organize a little bit of hierarchy and throw some keywords in the filename. As well, I expect to lose a little bit of the paper trail at times. Precise origins and authorship are not always accessible. Redundancies may occur. The point of the curation is to make a useful product for yourself, one that accommodates many informational needs - to collect ideas, create a course of study, or put yourself in a particular mindspace. You have many years to keep developing it. [0] https://www.tagspaces.org/ [1] https://penzu.com/ (Why this and not plaintext? It has an app, and it auto-syncs.) |