@crossingthethreshold Readwise Reader is that place for me. I can highlight and search those highlights.
@crossingthethreshold Hah hah, I so often think that too and then never remember. I now have a saved plain text file thatās always open. Itās named working.txt. I save random stuff in there. Iāve just set up a Keyboard Maestro button to save the clipboard to the end of that file. I also have a TextExpander action that grabs the Title and URL from the front Safari window (and in one version adds that info in front of any text Iāve just copied).
@amit Is Readwise Reader the place you read everything? I tried it but I felt it was a little too clunky (even though I was crazy impressed with their Mac Safari extension).
@Miraz It sure did š Although for me creating the workflow to add or highlight is only one part of the puzzle. The second, more difficult part, is having a habit or system to go back to the note or wherever the collected snippet went and revisiting it, thinking about it, or taking some kind of action based on it.
Actions like opening a tab, bookmarking, adding to a read-later service, all feel like opening threads, and I end up with many open threads and no system to close them.
Do you have a structure for when you (re)visit your working.txt, or does it just seem to work itself out?
@sherif so this might be out of context, but Iām impressed with MBās bookmarking tool, meant just for that: bookmark, later go in and highlight whatever is needed (it downloads the text), URL is linked automatically in your post.
Then I use Emacs org-mode, but thatās another beast entirely.
@sherif Not everything yet - mostly the articles I want to make notes on. I donāt subscribe to feeds or newsletter there.
@sherif For me working.txt is a file of temporary ācurrentā stuff rather than saving for the record. For example, a few weeks ago I saved a link for when I updated a post (on another blog). Yesterday I got round to updating that post so retrieved the link, used it, then deleted that entry in working.txt. Sometimes I scroll through the whole thing and use or delete specific entries. Not a big system though. Recently I expanded my process by collecting from working.txt all the recipes I want to try, moving them into their own document and adding a button to choose which file to save to.
@jtr Sorry Iām confused. When you say ālater go in and highlightā and āit downloads the text for youā, are you referring to Reader or MB bookmarking? If the latter that would be news to me! But if the former, do you have a way of having all bookmarked posts in MB automatically end up in Reader?
@amit Out of curiosity, what do you do with the notes after you make them?
I have Readerās Obsidian plugin which downloads all my ebook highlights and notes to files in Obsidian (which is uh-mazing). But right now I feel like Iām not making good use of those highlights independently of the Reader appās daily review (which as far as I can tell doesnāt include highlights from articles, only books).
@Miraz Okay! So working.txt is an even more apt name than I realized. An actual extension of working memory.
@sherif So, I was only half right. Yes, the MB bookmarking tools does download the text (import the URL) and allows you to highlight, but only on premium ($10): news.micro.blog/2020/09/2ā¦