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Long-term storage of hyperlinks for future reference? (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I frequently just email myself links to sites or articles I find helpful (usually some permalink to a specific comment buried deep in a thread that was the answer to some technical issue I had). There are probably close to a hundred of them now in my email. Do y'all have a more efficient / effective way to store these and some notes to self with them that won't keep eating up inbox space? Also looking for a solution that isn't OS specific, and accessible on any device via cloud-something. Solutions?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Pocket?

[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I bookmark them in Firefox and check to make sure the pages have been archived by the Wayback Machine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

A simple solution would be to load your links into a spreadsheet and make your notes in an adjacent cell.

Beyond that there are bookmark services and software: https://www.google.com/search?q=bookmarking+service&oq=bookmarking+service&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRg80gEINDAyM2owajSoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Personally, I'm completely opposed to anything outside of my personal PCs keeping track of my browsing habits.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Looks like you want a bookmark manager, many self and cloud hosted alternatives exists, personally using Linkding! Some of them also support archiving which means they also save the content locally!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

So many options here;

Just press CTRL+D

or use gmail and tags, then archive the messages so they don't 'take up space'

or a notepad text doc in dropbox

or google keep

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The storing of hyperlinks is fine and dandy as long as the site stays up

Saving the web page means you will always have it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Seriously, this isn't link hoarding!!

But really OP, anything you think you might want should be downloaded, sites are vanishing all the time. Ramp up the hoarding!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Absolutely, copy the source.

Internet Link Rot gets worse every day

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Rather than just mailing you the link you also could mail the text snippet too. A bit more work, but more robust into the future. If the respective site goes down you still have the critical information.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Archivebox might be something to look at. Open source, self hosted, made for archiving websites.
So it not only keeps track of your mass of links, you can also snapshot/archive them when you add them. So if they ever were to go down, you'd still have a copy yourself.
https://archivebox.io/

Though to be fair, I have not actually tried it out myself. I looked at it a few times but I don't personally have a need for it so. Worth taking a look at though.