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Posted by JasonE
Aug 17, 2011 at 02:20 PM
>What software do you use/would recommend for storing text you may not refer to again
>for possibly more than a year, but want to keep somewhere it can be easily found when the
>time comes?
I am quite enamored of Smereka.
Just yesterday, it took about 5 seconds to find a document that I made last year.
JasonE
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Posted by $Bill
Aug 17, 2011 at 04:26 PM
You really don’t have to wait for anyone to reply to your question as this forum is almost entirely devoted to everyone’s favorite (or not so) favorite solution to the problem that you experiencing.
shatteredmindofbob wrote:
>What software do you use/would recommend for storing text you may not refer to again
>for possibly more than a year, but want to keep somewhere it can be easily found when the
>time comes?
>
>Lately I’ve been having a hell of a time using Google or
>newspaper/magazine site’s search engines to find something I read two years ago and
>suddenly remembered and would now like to refer to again.
Posted by JBfrom
Aug 17, 2011 at 06:45 PM
Plain text emacs files for my full article quotations. I keep several ranked by priority of info: epic, elite, quote, reference.
Also I may briefly summarize in my emacs “notes” file, which eventually gets sorted into BrainStorm
I may split up the article across multiple of these to highlight key sections but still preserve the whole article in “reference”
Emacs has full lisp search capability, but I never use it… scanning with normal search across a few keywords is fast enough.
The important thing is this system never gets in the way, so I can hoover up tons of info, giving me lots of redundancy.
Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Aug 17, 2011 at 07:46 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>If the information I collect is very miscellaneous or random, I will put it into Zoot
>(when at my office PC) or DevonThink on my Macbook. But if it fits neatly into existing
>categories of interest, it goes into my Commonplace Book “Brain” in PersonalBrain.
>There are two reasons I use PB: 1. As a Java application it runs on my office PC and on my
>Macbook, and with the webBrain sync feature, I can keep my “Brains” in sync; and 2. I
>find the visual linkage helpful in conceptualizing my information. PersonalBrain
>also has a deceptively effective search tool, so it’s fast an easy to find anything in a
>Brain, even if it is buried deep down in the hierarchy.
>
>It does sometimes take more
>work to use PB in this manner, as it does not have a quick capture feature (like the
>Zooter). But it isn’t too difficult. If I want to capture a web page for future
>reference, I just drag the URL from the address into the open Brain and drop it under the
>parent thought most appropriate. If I don’t know where to put it immediately, I keep a
>thought called “In Box” available and can drop it there. That creates a new thought
>with the web link. I can then cut and paste any of the text into the thought’s note. A nice
>feature of PB is the ability to clip a screenshot and associate that with a thought,
>which opens when you mouse over it—that’s a fast way to capture, say, an address.
>However, unlike OneNote, PersonalBrain does not perform an OCR on the image.
>
>I’m
>not recommending PersonalBrain for your solution, just pointing it out as another
>option.
>
>Steve Z.
May not go with PersonalBrain, but you’ve given me something more helpful, the “digital commonplace book,” which I realize is exactly what I’m trying to build.
Posted by Ken
Aug 17, 2011 at 08:04 PM
Its a simple solution, and it may not exactly meet your needs, but Diigo has been evolving from a bookmark program, and as it is pretty much web browser agnostic, its available almost everywhere. Simplenote is another cross-platform program, but I am not sure it will store more than notes.
—Ken