[dewey]

I used to think like that, stored everything in Pinboard, tagged properly. I also used to use nvalt (https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/) for that as it had good search and I didn't have to switch to other tabs to search Pinboard.

It felt good to "catalog" all this knowledge but in reality I never went back to it, just like bookmarks and I realized that if something is important enough I'll always be able to re-find or re-download almost everything I ever found.

Not feeling like you have to catalog and store everything in personal knowledge management apps is very liberating.

[bluewalt]

That's a very good point. I love the "the best solution to your problem is to realise you don't have a problem" mindset.