Re: Your Other Brain

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I'm looking for a web-based service where I can store notes and clips and links and whatever else pops into my head or I come across that I want to remember or save.

Isn't that called... a "web log"?


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 01-16-07 9:39 PM
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Something without commenters.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01-16-07 9:40 PM
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How about on a pad of paper?


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 01-16-07 9:44 PM
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Some people have private livejournals for that, ogged.

I thought it would be neat to have a del.icio.us-like service that was just for bits of text that you could tag; an online commonplace book, basically. I even thought of doing it myself until I realized that I have no web design skills, vanishingly little web programming skill, and no host.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01-16-07 9:47 PM
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Oh, c'mon ogged. How annoying could commenters get?


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 01-16-07 9:52 PM
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They're really coming through in this thread.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01-16-07 9:59 PM
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Get out of my head, Ogged.

w-lfs-n: what about Ning, for the "no host" part? (Just wondering, I don't actually know that this would do the trick.)


Posted by: arthegall | Link to this comment | 01-16-07 10:00 PM
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Scrapbook as an extension for Firefox, if it's just clipping with links that you want.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01-16-07 10:05 PM
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Hey arthegall, what was all the commotion about?


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 01-16-07 10:05 PM
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That seems to save things locally.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01-16-07 10:05 PM
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I took arthegall to be pooh-poohing pdf's minor myopia.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01-16-07 10:07 PM
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Web-based. Ah. Someone else has a Google Notebook like service, but I can't recall who that is. Just do Google , you dick.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01-16-07 10:07 PM
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You guys feel bad about not being able to help me, so you hurt me. I'm on to you.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01-16-07 10:15 PM
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You might want to give stikkit a try. It's still in beta (isn't everything these days?) and they pump out improved features every couple of weeks. It has search and does bookmarks + todo lists + address books + meeting reminders + general notes...should be right up your alley.


Posted by: wink | Link to this comment | 01-16-07 10:18 PM
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Aha! There ya go, something I hadn't heard about. Thanks wink. Hang your heads in shame, the rest of you. And the rest of the rest of you, keep 'em coming.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01-16-07 10:20 PM
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No problem. I find that I like stikkit a lot more than Backpack. Backpack makes you click on too many things to get things done; stikkit lets you do most everything via text and then parses the text to categorize everything correctly. That is much more the way I'm used to jotting down my notes, so it matches my workflow better. Hope the tip is useful...


Posted by: wink | Link to this comment | 01-16-07 10:28 PM
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Stikkit does look useful but in my limited experience is slooooow.


Posted by: nworb werdna | Link to this comment | 01-17-07 2:34 AM
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This is totally unhelpful, but there was a service that I used once, and that I had the link to on my mac, but can't remember what it was called. It was really helpful for saving articles that were going to disappear into the archives of a newspaper. You could keep things private or share them with others.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 01-17-07 7:37 AM
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diigo


Posted by: commenter turned lurker | Link to this comment | 01-17-07 8:00 AM
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Stikkit is probably the best fit for what Ogged is talking about, but I personally just use a draft email called "scratch" in my Gmail drafts folder.


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 01-17-07 8:15 AM
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Firefox just did an automatic security update (a feature I didn't even know I had turned on), restarted itself (closing all my tabs), and now all my bookmarks are missing. This happen to anyone else?


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 01-17-07 10:32 AM
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Nope. Check the mozilla forums; they're usually pretty good about help. Although if your bookmarks are really gone (there's no bookmarks.html file on your computer now?), you're probably kinda screwed.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01-17-07 10:40 AM
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whew - found the file. thanks, O-man.


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 01-17-07 10:46 AM
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Doesn't Furl do a lot of what you want? I can't, however, vouch for its reliability.


Posted by: Chris | Link to this comment | 01-17-07 1:51 PM
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Furl is mainly for saving web pages, but I also want to jot down the occasional note from my head.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01-17-07 2:03 PM
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Furl plus Post-Its?


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 01-17-07 2:05 PM
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