When I search the internet for something, I usually never find one good answer, but bits and pieces of it in multiple webpages. I sometimes use a bookmark to mark the pages, and sometimes use a web-clipper. But I'd like to have something that does both and let me record my thoughts/comments along with it.
How do you go about this? Is there a method or a workflow you follow? Or a tool that helps you?
1. I have a coarse hierarchy of topic names as a directory tree
2. These directories have mostly text files in them but can also have PDF etc
3. Text files contain my summary/"the answer" followed by the relevant extract from webpage (citation). There usually are multiple such citations
4. Since I mainly deal with a lot of textual context, I have mostly text files but there are situations where I need spreadsheets/pictures/video - in those cases, I save the webpages as PDF but maintain a parallel version of #3 with notes to refer to the native format when spreadsheets/pictures/video need to be involved
I won't ever use proprietary tools, specially those I have to pay recurring fees for because I would need to use these notes for nearly 50 years.