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Fear Of Missing Out. If I didn't bother to read it now, I'll probably never read it. Of if its important, I'll find it again. And for me, I need less online reading and more focus on what is actually productive in my life.
Hogan
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I use organized folders of bookmarks, and drag and drop the LOCK icon into the correct one.
So, I have one for future reading, then by topic. I add topics as I discover.
But I have experienced a few problems. One, due to censorship, I have clicked those links and been taken to alternative information or a 404 or a message telling me the article was forced down. How nice!
The biggest one, is when the link CYCLES after 90 days to a more recent topic. Not Cool!
And when I am doing research, I use an outliner, and I will store the links there, with tons of notes while I do my research.
But tons of bookmarks. The one upside is when I open a page, and I see the STAR, I know I already planned on reading this...
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I use PearlTrees. I would rather have a system that allowed me to use multiple tags, rather than putting a link in multiple folders, but it works for me right now from any browser on any system.
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If it doesn't come in a pdf (or a single web page) that I can rename and date, I usually don't save it. And that's only if it deals with my immediate subject of interest. Later, everything gets archived with the project (no dead links).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I use my browsers "bookmarks". Don't see what would be limiting with that, as I can easily create topics folders...
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I use Chrome, It has what is called a "reading list."
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NextCloud with the Bookmarks app bookmarklet, allow comments and tags.
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I use Pocket (getpocket.com), with a plugin for most browsers and an iOs app, it means the items I save at my desktop are available on my phone later.
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I use WordPad docs, can have comments and bold heading, search and click on links to open.
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Thanks very much. Those look really interesting. I will check them out.
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I use both Pinboard.in to store bookmarks with tags since it lets me search the full text of the link in addition to any text I include in the bookmark description
I also use Pocket for articles or pages I want to read later since it can even read them out loud on my phone using text-to-speech. It even integrates with Pinboard via an API if you want.
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For things I want to read right away (sometime before I reboot) I just open in a new tab (right click, Open in new tab; or just middle click - doesn't always work, but often enough). Sometimes in a new window. This is just for one-offs. Usually, I never come back to them after reading (and no big deal if I don't read them).
For things I want to come back to more than once, I save it in Favorites and group by folders (often two levels deep, which gives me a general category and a specific sub-category/group). I also rename as appropriate. (Sometimes I use the browser collections feature, which also lets me group by name.)
For things I want to share or incorporate into my work team's flow, I have a custom app that lets me build menus of URLs, MarkDown pages, database queries, and other menus. And I put them in there (as a direct menu page or content on a MarkDown page).
I also use OneNote or Word (mostly if the context relates to an existing OneNote or Word document) and occasionally Excel.
All options but the first allow some kind of custom tagging, either by renaming, grouping, or adding other contextual information.
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Today's APOD[^] has an amusing typo in the "alt" tag:
Quote: alt="The featured image shows the James Web Space Telescope
That's Webb, not Web!
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Non, c'est le spelling francais!
The real name should be: Jacques toile d'araignée
modified 26-Dec-21 12:33pm.
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C'est très correct, mon amis.
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Typo aside, I came across this page describing Webb's progress towards its destination which is pretty cool. It's on the nasa.gov domain, so should be safe.
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See title
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Did you miss this? The Lounge[^]
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I did miss it Peter thanks
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 26-Dec-21 8:54am.
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It's 2:30am(ish). I'm wide awake.
I have a bunch of projects I'm half interested in working on but when I try to pick one up I just get nowhere with it, motivation-wise.
It is what Douglas Adams referred to as The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul. Anyone who read him voraciously knows the exact feeling I'm referring to.
The hour that it is makes it particularly challenging, because it limits what I can do.
I'd go to sleep but I just woke up not too long ago.
Anyone have any ideas for getting over the slump, even if it's just short term? I need to be able to occupy myself.
If anyone else is similarly awake and in the same boat, I'm here to commiserate at least. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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Well, I got my new laptop set up yesterday. MS doesn't make previous versions of VS Community available, so I had to go with VS2022. I then had--count 'em--over 61,000 compiler warnings that weren't there before. Most of them deserve suppression, but there are a few that should probably be fixed. So if you're bored... 
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Ah, self abuse.
Wouldn't it be easier to just start listening to The Smiths and cutting myself instead?
Real programmers use butterflies
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