New year, new strategies
I spend a lot of time researching1 ways I can improve my computing world (and my world in general). The new year🐉2 has inspired me to stop researching and start making changes. Below I discuss some of my browsing and bookmarking strategies.
Overwhelmed by browser tabs
I use a lot of browsers on a lot of devices and platforms,3 and almost always have literally hundreds of tabs open. When I close a browser, I usually do it in a way that all its tabs reopen when I relaunch the browser.4 I do this because, for each tab, I want to either…
- read it later,
- reference it in something I’m writing,
- reply to it, or
- toot about it on Mastodon.
All these tabs are overwhelming to me (and to my computers).😵💫
My bookmarking systems
Old bookmarking system
For a few years, I’ve been publicly bookmarking web pages on Infinite Ink’s portals. This system works for pages that might be interesting to Infinite Ink’s audience, but does not work for pages…
- that are not relevant to Infinite Ink or
- that I have not read.
What I want
I want an easy way to save pages so that they are…
- viewable from anywhere,
- available offline,
- searchable,
- annotatable, and
- backed up somewhere remote.
New bookmarking system: Zotero 7
I recently started using the following Zotero tools.
- Zotero 7 Beta desktop app and web app5
- Zotero Connector browser extensions
- Zotero free account6
- Zotero syncing
These tools satisfy my five “wants” and have inspired me to start working through my browser tabs and for each tab, either close it or save a snapshot of it and then close it.
Conclusion
So far, I ♡ my new bookmarking system and I’m optimistic 2024 will be the year I quit being a hoarder of tabs.
Happy bookmarking!🔖
Happy Year of the Dragon!🐉2
References
- www.zotero.org
- www.zotero.org/support/beta_builds
- forums.zotero.org/discussions
- old.reddit.com/r/zotero/
- github.com/zotero/zotero/issues
See also
For more about productivity, see Infinite Ink’s…
Mobile Phones, Wikipedia, and DuckDuckGo Bangs
(featuring !wm)❗Using Vim to Store Passwords and Other Secrets in an Encrypted File🔏
Scoop: A Windows Package Manager (featuring Hugo, Figlet, and Ruby)
Endnotes
By “researching” I mean browsing the web and having a lot of read-later and to-do tabs open.😔 ️ ↩︎
2024-February-10 to 2025-January-28 is a Year of the Dragon.🐉 ↩︎ ↩︎
In 2024, I use Windows 10, Windows 11, and Linux. ↩︎
For example, I usually close qutebrowser with
:wqa, which means “write (save) and quit all qutebrowser windows and tabs.” ↩︎Zotero’s web app is called “Zotero web library” and it has less functionality than Zotero’s desktop app. To learn about it, see zotero.org/support/kb/web_vs_desktop. ↩︎
I’m thinking about purchasing unlimited (♾️) storage for $120/year. For details about purchasing various levels of storage, see zotero.org/storage. ↩︎
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