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by Springtime 1225 days ago
There are some 'save everything' programs/extensions I seen mentioned in the past (and in this topic) but have wondered how users deal with the signal-to-noise ratio, later filtering for desired content, or whether the users find the storage requirements are worth it.

Often when searching for a specific thing, be it technical queries, useful reviews, troubleshooting, etc, it can take many, many searches and looking through pages before finding something worthwhile, at which point I'll save it (and name it with keywords for future me) since the effort required to even find it is not worth repeating. I'm not sure how such save everything utilities would make that part easier when I wish to return to the relevant page in the future (ie: finding the relevant page, among all the pages that aren't relevant when they share so many similar internal keywords).