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Ask HN: What curation methods do you use for online content?

2 points by ChildOfChaos ↗ HN
The internet is designed in ways that really don't serve me or my time, yet it's full of great content, i'm finding i Need to employ curation methods to help me manage this, curious of what everyone else does or what systems you have?

For me, newsletters are a big help, I have a folder in gmail for them and just subscribe to my favourite thinkers and a summary of the daily news which even the subject is enough news for me in any given day.

I need to get better with youtube, mostly making a seperate watch list at the moment so i can watch stuff when i have time.

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PaulHoule
See https://ontology2.com/essays/ClassifyingHackerNewsArticles/

I have built systems like that for classifying employment opportunities and handling the workflow of applications and also to process images from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I am now thinking about building one for a certain image board that is inadequately organized.

mikewarot
I'm finding myself at the same point. I look back wistfully at the vision of Vannevar Bush[1] in his proposed Memex, and realize it's never been brought to life.

It would break all sorts of copyright laws, but my ideal system would suck in everything I view through the browser, store all of it locally for at least 2 months, and if I happened to link to an item in that time, make the storage of it permanent.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m...