How do you keep track of the posts on this forum? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: ez24
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 20, 2015, 10:36:35 pm
content: Was wondering how members keep track of posts that they want to keep.I have tried printing the posts and put them in a binder.I convert them to PDFsI book mark them in FirefoxI get "notified"I try "searching"What do you do and does anyone have a better way ?thanksEdit - I use Windows

author: Maxlor
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 20, 2015, 10:41:24 pm
content: I have a personal wiki on my server that I use for note-taking. If some info in a posting seems important enough to keep in written form, I'd probably copy it there.

author: netwinder
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 20, 2015, 10:45:45 pm
content: You can keep a local text file on your machine, or a folder with many helpful posts. You can Ctrl + P and save the page as a pdf, or Ctrl + s and save the entire page! (any external or attached images from the forum probably wont load, so saving them would be handy if you're afraid the page may be taken down).You could screenshot, not sure what OS you're on, but on Ubuntu Gnome it is as simple as pressing print screen.

author: suicidaleggroll
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 20, 2015, 10:53:01 pm
content: Whenever I'm working on a project, I keep a text file of all notes and information related to that project. If there's a site or a specific thread with helpful info, I'll paste the URL into the text file. If it's from a site that I'm afraid might go down before I need to access it again, I'll print the page as a pdf and throw it in the directory.

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 20, 2015, 11:48:28 pm
content: Try Draggo. It's very effective in saving and organizing links.

author: codeboy2k
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 21, 2015, 06:40:40 am
content: In the past I bookmarked some links, but even with the very crude bookmark tags of Firefox I could never find anything. Then I switched to Chrome, imported my bookmarks , switched again, imported again, upgraded my PC, imported again, etc, etc... After so many times doing that my bookmarks are a complete (yet hierarchical!) mess. Trying to place bookmarks into a hierarchy like a folder structure doesn't work...So I switched to Evernote a few years back, and I'm pretty happy with that.It's free for the basic notekeeping website, and it's got a great web-clipper add-on for Chrome and Firefox. There's an Android app, an iOS app, a Windows app, an OS X app and the (very good!) HTML5 /CSS based Web app, and everything stays in sync. I can clip details from web pages, forum content, blogs, videos, etc...add links, include images, add PDFs, and give it meaningful tags, and it's totally searchable in content and tags.Using that, I can usually find what I am looking for very quickly. Definitely much better than just bookmarks or a bookmarking social site like xmarks, delicious, or stumbleupon.

author: knks
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 27, 2015, 10:54:29 pm
content: What if I save a link, and later the subject of the topic changes ? Does it mean the link no longer works? (I don't want to create a new topic just to test this)

author: codeboy2k
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2015, 12:12:27 am
content: I expect the link won't work anymore if someone changes the topic, because then the link changes (as it contains the topic)

author: miguelvp
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2015, 12:22:47 am
content: Editing the topic doesn't seem to change the link, for example:https://www.eevblog.com/forum/buysellwanted/wanted-gps-controlled-network-time-server/or look for the ones in the buy/sell/wanted that are renamed with sold.

author: fivefish
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2015, 01:58:11 am
content: +1 You can use Evernote... you can capture the article, full page, simplified article, screenshot graphic, or whole PDF and organize content into folders.

author: ez24
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2015, 02:36:44 am
content: I am trying out Evernote. Still learningthanks everyone

author: codeboy2k
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2015, 01:45:05 pm
content: Quote from: miguelvp on August 28, 2015, 12:22:47 amThat's good to know the link doesn't change, I assumed it would change with the topic.Quote from: fivefish on August 28, 2015, 01:58:11 amEvernote is great, that's how I use it, I clip full text and graphics, add my own annotations, and that makes it fully searchable in Evernote. The bookmark system in most browsers is utterly useless as it does not index any content. When they introduced tags on bookmarks it helped alot, but Evernote is still simpler to just clip the interesting parts and then you can search it without creating any tags, and go to the original when you need to do that.

author: ez24
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2015, 06:11:49 pm
content: One question on Evernote.Since some of the posts can run into several page - is there a way to get Evernote to save the entire post or do you have to save each page on by one (this is what I am doing)?thanks

author: timofonic
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2015, 06:24:00 pm
content: I just subscribe to them, it's simple and easy. I use Tapatalk.

author: ez24
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2015, 08:11:12 pm
content: Quote from: Circuiteromalaguito on August 28, 2015, 06:24:00 pmthanks I will have a look at it - but from first glance it looks like an app and I use my computer

author: codeboy2k
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2015, 08:50:51 pm
content: Quote from: ez24 on August 28, 2015, 06:11:49 pmEvernote can clip the entire page, but for multi-page topics you'll have to clip one full page at a time.To make it less tedious, you can go into your profile settings, under Modify Profile->Look and Layout where you can set the number of messages per page to 5, 10, 15, 25, 50. You might be at the default 15. I raised mine to 50, which means less pages of a long topic.

author: ez24
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 28, 2015, 10:00:37 pm
content: Quote from: codeboy2k on August 28, 2015, 08:50:51 pmthanks this helps a lot