Right now, I have a mess of bookmarks, open tabs, and things saved haphazardly in different apps. I want a system where I can organize it all and also keep it reasonably private. Open to all suggestions, whether that’s an app or a tool or a personal trick or some completely different way of interacting with the internet.

  • slampisko@lemmy.world
    7·
    7 days ago

    Logseq for texts and links I want to archive and refer back to, Wallabag for articles and other texts I want to read later.

      • ladybugs@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        6 days ago

        Hi, thanks for commenting! Do you mind explaining more about how you use Logsec vs. Readeck? When do you use Logsec but not Readeck?

        edit: also, can you add notes that are more in-depth than just tags to your articles and links on either of these? I wasn’t thinking about it earlier, but that would be a really nice feature

        • myrmidex@belgae.social
          2·
          6 days ago

          I use readeck to store webpages, mostly articles I like. I tag them, I share them, has a firefox extension so I can use it both at home and on the go. I do self-host readeck, that might be the biggest snag?

          For everything else I use LogSeq. I read a book, i make a page, paste in the cover image, some details, and thoughts. Well, nowadays that happens automatically via a sync with my e-reader, but just to give you an idea. The daily notes are for everyday notekeeping: I do a cleanup here, I had a doctors appointment there, some good quote I found, an idea i had. Just the immediate dropzone for anything, but I do take care to use appropriate tags. Then in quieter times, I can start sifting through these, like a gardener pruning his plants: copying notes to pages they might belong to, or create new pages, link them up. And at the end, one can gape at the Graph showing all these connections, which in turn encourages another round of pruning. Ad infinitum.

          EDIT: This article seems to give a good overview.

          EDIT2: Quick video (youtube)

    • ladybugs@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      6 days ago

      Thanks! Do you mind explaining a little more about how you use these? When would it make sense to use Wallabag but not Logseq, or vice versa?

      edit: also, can you add in-depth notes about the articles/links you save, like something more than just short tags?

      • slampisko@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 days ago

        Wallabag is just what Pocket used to be – you feed it a link and it extracts text from the article for you to read later. I also use it to sync articles with my Kobo (the alternative interface KOReader has built-in support). Usually when I’ve read the articles, I just archive them in Wallabag without any further processing.

        Logseq is for anything else – tips and tricks, the odd article I want to archive in its entirety to have it easily accessible, howtos, documentation of my personal projects, creative writing, journaling… It works a little like my own personal Wiki. I sync my pages among several devices using Syncthing.

        AFAIK, you cannot add long notes in Wallabag, just tags. If I wanted to do that, I’d probably copy the text or link to Logseq and do it there.