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by corytheboyd 1927 days ago
I’m with you, tried it but couldn’t keep up. I didn’t commit to it for very long which isn’t a fair trial, but I just didn’t see it panning out.

One thing I realized was that most of my notes were links to pages on the internet with maybe a few extra words as context, and the rest were chicken scratch step-by-step things I did setting up something nontrivially complex. For the links, now I just use bookmarks in Firefox and add tags religiously to make them searchable. For the step-by-steps... I’m not really sure what to do, thinking of running a WebDAV server on my LAN and using Joplin as a client to just contain arbitrary markdown docs.
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stevesimmons 1927 days ago
I found Zotero (academic reference software) with the browser plugin to be a simple and very effective way to file general information, web bookmarks, Arxiv papers, conference materials, PDF books, etc, etc. My basic workflow is:

* Keep Zotero open, and navigate to one part of its collection (topic) hierarchy.

* Click on the Zotero button in the browser, to save the current web page, PDF doc, paper in Semantic Scholar etc into the currently selected place in the Zotero hierarchy.

* Zotero saves all the metadata about the object.

In parallel, I keep project specific markdown files in the folder I create for every project.

I tried Roam-like hyperlinked Markdown files for a couple of months, but found I kept wanting to keep them alongside other project-specific files.

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cxr 1920 days ago
I also use Zotero, and it supports notes, but I don't think it's very good at them. IMO, Hypothes.is takes the right approach for this. Zotero should probably overhaul its notes subsystem and add direct support for Hypothes.is (and Web Annotations) out of the box.

https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-protocol/

https://web.hypothes.is/blog/annotation-is-now-a-web-standar...

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