Ask HN: How do you keep track of all the interesting sites/articles you find?
At the moment, I just bookmark all the cool stuff I find in FF, and have it synced across my devices, but are there any "better" ways to keep track of this stuff?
function tupd() {
git -C ~/.task commit -a -m "Update tasks $(whoami)@$(hostname)"
git -C ~/.task push
}
This is a buffer, the entries will then be refined into either "issues" in the backlog, or entries in the knowledge base when we learn something that solves one of our problems. We also do that when we close issues: we learn something, it goes to the knowledge base for future projects.
This has served us well. For example, when we started developing the product we're working on, the first commits were to use a plugin architecture, and this was made easier because there were entries with many resources on how to go about it. Same when we wanted to sandbox arbitrary code, or when we wanted to add live editing for Jupyter notebooks.
The funnel is nice. Add task with title and description and tag. Push it. Augment is as you evolve and learn things. Push. At some point, you reach a certain activation energy and you just go for it and execute. Or when you've had a problem and find yourself well equipped to solve it.
When it's a paper that passes a certain quality threshold, I'll often read it, summarize it in Markdown with a sort of template with meta information like link, authors, etc. Then key points, measures, data they used, possible applications. Then I disseminate this to the team so people who are more competent at this can take a closer look after the article passed preliminary screening.
I have a never ending list of bookmarks in Chrome that sync
I also never clear my history
I have a personal Wikidpad
I never clear my history on YouTube, or elsewhere.
If I see an interesting video, I subscribe... it's easy to purge later. You never know when "Impulse Manufacturing Laboratory at Ohio State" is going to come up with another way to use huge current spikes to join dissimilar metals together, for example.
I used to use delicio.us, but they went away.
I cross post to facebook, twitter, reddit, blog. All of which can be searched.
I blog interesting things, so that others, but mainly me, can find them later.I was also learning web dev at the time, so I put together a web app using React/AWS + open sourced everything: