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Ask HN: Keeping track of stuff on the net

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What tool(s) do you use to keep track of stuff you find on the net? I'm talking about something more complex than a bookmarking service.

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pclark
define stuff.
mtpark
links, notes on articles you find, basically anything you'd want to save from the web to reference later
SwellJoe
There was just a thread about this a day or two ago. snipd.com and snipt.net were the suggestions.
mtpark
What if you want something completely web based. I usually work on multiple computers, e.g., computer labs.
SwellJoe
Those two are completely web-based, as far as I know.
mtpark
I'm not a fan of either. I guess what I'm looking for is something like delicious but more multi-purpose.
Jem
Surely this is what the blog was invented for? (In it's original form: the web log.)
dsingleton
Careful tagging on Delicious, combined with a personal Wiki/notepad web app that pulls in links, photos, etc, based on the wiki page/tag.
[dead] grunties
I don't use anything more complex than a bookmarking service (delicious) to tame my personal chaos, and I'm the most chaotic person I know by a couple of orders of magnitude, literally.

Why do you want more complexity?

gtani
you can wedge everything into a db or file/directory tree so you can hit with Google desktop, or SOLR, or sphinxsearch if you need control doc granularity, tokenization, stemming
csomar
i didn't find a good tool that record my online stuff, delicious, su and digg are mostly commercial and don't help do that.

I use emails by sending and featuring a note, but it depends in the situation, sometimes i save in delicious, sometimes in my browser and sometimes in a txt file