I have a couple folders of bookmarks where I save my favorite parts of the internet. I tried revisiting a few and found that some of the links now lead nowhere, which besides being somewhat heartbreaking, makes me realize I need to start saving the other links somehow.
I tried using evernote but it's such a fat piece of software that I sigh and have to tap my fingers in that rolling, bored fashion if I ever accidentally click it on my dock when I reach for system preferences.
Do you guys bookmark? Copy and paste? How do you label these all?
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.
I'm a bit old fashioned, in an odd sort of way, in that I simply bookmark sites I find interesting. If there is an interesting article or Husbki post I encounter but can not read until later, I just keep it open in a tab and close my laptop. There may be a easier way to do this, so I'm definitely eager to read other responses in this thread.
FYI, you can "save" posts on Hubski or you can "stick" then in which case they'll remain at the top of your feed until you "unstick" them. -I use this often.
I use Pocket (I think it used to be called Read It Later) to save interesting things I find or want to read later. If you create an account, you can link it between devices (phones, laptops, etc.) I have the app installed in my browser (Chromium) as well as on my phone (Galaxy S4). So if I'm on my phone and find a long but interesting article that I would rather read on a full sized screen, I can save it to Pocket on my phone, then open up the app in my browser and go to the site from there. It also supports tagging pages so it's easier to find in the future. I don't like the idea of having a 3rd party store all of the sites I'm interested in though, so that's one downside. But other than that it's great.
Adding to that. To avoid that an article/blogpost gets lost because the website does not exist or is taken down one could use Evernote to store whole articles. This can also be combined with Pocket. By using If This Then That (you can think or it as an internet automation tool) you could set up a "recipe" that stores every starred/favorite Pocket article as a whole webpage in Evernote.
Mozilla Archive Format: http://maf.mozdev.org/
I use a vertical tab manager with a tab session manager, and if I want to "save a part of the Internet", I'll just newtab it and never exit out of the tab. I now have 2650 tabs in the tab manager (but not necessarily open, I usually have about 100 tabs open at any given time) since I started doing this back in October.
Ha. Do you think you'll ever revisit those 2.6k tabs?
Actually, I do, quite often. What's great about it is that I'm not just saving the link, I'm saving the link's context. So I can see where the link came from a couple tabs above the tab I'm looking at. It brings me right back to the state of mind and what I was researching/looking for when I found the link. I can also look below that tab and see all the links that that link evolved into. It's much more handy and not-stupid than you might initially think. People think I'm crazy, but the system's proven its use to me again and again. For instance, if I'm researching relational databases right now, I can type "relational databases" into my search box, and below the query, Firefox will show me a list of tabs I have open that contain the words "relational databases". It will give me an option to "switch tabs", and I can switch hundreds of tabs back to the link. Voila, I'm instantly at a tab which is surrounded by many other related tabs (and as I scroll up or down, slightly less related tabs, which again is useful for determining context). Having a chronologically ordered list of 2600 links is so much better than having a categorically ordered list of 2600 links because of the context it gives me. I can still pattern-match for the words in the title of the URL if I need to find it too, so searching for a category technically works. What's cool is that I sometimes have a tab open more than once, so I can potentially have more than one context for this one link, giving me more than one perspective on this one aspect of my research.
I have tried so many stupid ways to try and make my content flow easier to get through, but it kinda goes like this right now: For RSS I use Feedly, which I scan through and favorite stuff that IFTTT sends to Pocket so I can read it on the go on my phone. Longer things, like eBooks or journal articles I spend time on I just send to my Kindle. I think the thing you are wanting to do is just save static webpages, which you can do in Evernote, but it is a little clunky since it tries to be so many things. I would recommend Delicious or [Kippt](kippt.com) to just save links. Pocket is really for reading imo, which it is amazing at, and it will do the job of saving links, but you can't organize them well under headers and stuff, which you can do in Kippt easily. If you are mostly interested in articles tho, and want to keep them for later, Pocket and Evernote may be the way to go.
I used to use bookmarks, but then i became aware of how bad i am with actually re visiting the things i save. I had virtual piles upon piles of bookmarks that i would save and then promptly forget about. Now, i use the latest version of Opera which doesn't have bookmarks (kind of). If i see something potentially interesting i either take the time right then to look at it, or i don't look at it at all and hope i remember later but if not, oh well. For things that i know are important that i just can't get into at that moment (like, an album that i really think i'll like) I'll text it to myself and then refuse to clear the notification until i've re visited whatever it was. I feel weird if text notifications start piling up so that's always a good motivator for me.