What gets me mad sometimes is that when I work on something and hit a road block, then I remember I found an article about it a year or so ago and I definitely saved it. I just have no idea how to find it.
I have not looked, but I wonder if there is an indexing tool that would also do an OCR on screenshots, PDFs etc. in the local filesystem and then had some advanced querying.
Daily, all links are fetched (as part of a larger web search product I'm working on). I can search this, but mostly i don't bother.
I will soon add semantic search and see if there's any magic to be found in my data exhaust.
Truth is I'm forced to spend my days googling dull problems and reading vaguely interesting articles.
No deep work for me at the moment
# summarize yesterday
python summarize_day.py
# summarize a day (3 month chrome history limit)
python summarize_day.py --date 2023-01-12
# summarize the last 90 days
python summarize_day.py --days 90I have recently started using Zotero, which can create offline copies of saved webpages and papers. You can then search their contents.
Last week I bookmarked Yacy, which is a search engine and which seems to allow you to define your own web index. However, I haven't gotten around to seeing how it really works...