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comment by insomniasexx
insomniasexx  ·  3909 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How do you save your favorite parts of the internet?

I use Evernote just like I do for my to do lists and project notes and stuff. I have three notebooks for bookmarks. One is for things I want to read later, one is simply for amazing things I want to save, and another is for things (mostly design/css/js links) that I know I will want to reference or learn about or use in a future project. They have a chrome extension that adds it automatically without having to open up the program.

Evernote has notes, tags, amazing search, and notebooks. They also have checkboxes that you can check. And a presentation feature that I just discovered is gorgeous but so far utterly useless. Apps available on all platforms although the iphone app is really hard to navigate through. I don't know how they fucked it up so bad. Since I'm usually just adding or accessing a recent note, it isn't bad enough to make me switch to something else (yet)

The only problem is that I only occasionally go back and re-explore these.

For websites/blogs, I use feedly now as my RSS reader. They just added a new feature where you can mark certain sources as "must reads." Their "home" section also pulls the top 10 stories from each category. This is exceptionally nice as I usually have about 10k unread items.

For things that are really helpful for a project I'm working on, I also email them to my coworkers. Then, the next time we are discussing the project, I can pull up the mail label regarding that project and it'll be there. I just did this for an article on how to write a better "about us" page as I am starting to redo my company's site. If I ever need to find that article in 6 months or a year, I'm in trouble though.

For sites that don't have RSS or sites like Hubski and Hacker News and Designer News, I have on my Chrome Speed Dial. Speed dial is an extension that pulls up a grid of sites every time you open a new tab. It's like bookmarks without clicking bookmarks. Be careful though as these won't sync if you computer dies or chrome dies or whatever. As a safety I have these bookmarked traditionally so they sync across my desktop, laptop and work computer as well.