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I'm not a particularly good writer, but I've written about how I use the SingleFile extension to capture a perma web version of everything interesting that I read[0]. It's a great open source tool that aids in archiving (even if only at the personal level).

I've been taking notes and blogging since the early 2000s and coming back so often to find the content that I'd linked to has disappeared.

Archive.org and Archive Team do amazing work, but it's a mistake to put all your archiving eggs in one basket.

[0]: https://vertis.io/2024/01/26/how-singlefile-transformed-my-o...

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How do you feel about this vs printing a pdf of the content?

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I think both work, from a purely information point of view.

The SingleFile download preserves more of the original format. For a long while I was using MarkDownload and capturing the content that way, but a bunch is lost that way.

I also use Zotero for downloading journal articles (etc), that also has the ability to snapshot, but then I found it was locked up in Zotero. Where my current setup is a Jekyll repo on Vercel that means that the content is almost immediately accessible after the github push and deploy. Something that happens automatically after I click the SingleFile download button (configured in the extension).

I need do no more than grab the web link and paste it into Obsidian, where linking to Zotero from Obsidian is a royal pain (not impossible).