Like many of you, I accumulate a lot of miscellaneous links to things. Perhaps I'm looking at the Google app, and it shows me something I want to save for later. Perhaps I'm browsing Hacker News or Lobsters, and I spot something interesting there. Or perhaps I run across a good item posted in the morning TLDR newsletter. How do I manage this?

For most of these links, the first stop is Google Keep, which is good as a way to quickly save things, and is accessible cross-platform. I can use either the Chrome browser extension for this, or the Share option from my iPhone or iPad. Things that live in Google Keep that aren't quite so transient, I turn a different color, so only the standard, white-background cards get "swept" out of Keep on a regular basis.

I'm particularly on the lookout for more blogs to read; a good Hacker News or Lobsters link is especially likely to lead to this. When they go into Keep, they get tagged with a "New Blogs" label, so I can run through them quickly. I have accumulated so many blog links, especially tech blog links, that they became cumbersome to manage, so I just throw those links into Karakeep and assign them to one of my various "blog" lists. Karakeep runs on Kosh, my local server, but I can still reach it via Tailscale if I need it. (Over time, more links may migrate to Karakeep from my bookmarks, as some of the other folders are getting unwieldy...) I also add those blogs to my CommaFeed instance on Digital Ocean, so I can follow them directly. It makes for better morning reading than doomscrolling social media! (Future plan: share my CommaFeed list as OPML on the blog site...)

Some links, particularly to specific articles that discuss multiple techniques or software packages, I put in my Obsidian vault. What I call the "AmyBase" is a vault that lives on my Nextcloud server, allowing it to sync across to all my computers...and, with the use of the Remotely Save plugin for Obsidian, to my phone and iPad as well. It evolved from the collection of notes I had in Evernote when I decided to switch and save the annual fee, and is hierarchically organized, with a large "Technical" section. Many of those links wind up on pages I've set up just for holding link collections, like the pages I have set up for listing Java libraries, Python libraries, Go libraries, and C/C++ libraries. (Those started as folders of bookmarks, but the pages allow me to categorize them and add notes about each one next to them.)

Some things, though, still need to be added as bookmarks. When I add those, I add them to both Chrome (which my desktop and laptop machines are all standardized on) and Safari (important for reflecting the bookmarks across to mobile devices). I'm trying to migrate away from using browser bookmarks for everything, but it's a slow process.

I'm not saying that this process is right for everyone, but it's right for me, in that it fits with the way I work.

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