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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Sometimes I come accross a comment that provides really good insight about a topic, and I want to keep it around. The problem is that the save feature on Lemmy/Reddit just creates one massive pile of hundreds of comments. This defeats the point of saving it because when I later encounter the topic that it related to, I'd still have to dig through this massive pile to be able to find it – so the save feature has in fact not made it any more accessible. I feel like someone on the internet must have surely worked out how to catalog these snippets of text in a way that allows you to quickly find the ones relevant to what you're currently doing. Perhaps some sort of tagging/mind map system? What do you use? I have considered Google Keep but my Keep is already a mess as is.

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[-] hallettj@beehaw.org 7 points 9 months ago

I like to use Obsidian for this kind of thing. It has tagging, and you can link notes and see the network of links in a visualizer. There's also a "canvas" feature that lets you lay out notes spatially in whatever way makes sense to you. I assume there is a web clipping plugin which could make it easy to grab the comment content and link at the same time.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago

Logseq is another interesting tool https://logseq.com/

[-] akwd169@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I use the view comment source option and copy the entire comment, then paste it into a note in Joplin.

That way I can choose which note it goes into (like folders) for organization, and I have control over my saved stuff.

I already lost all my lemmy saved stuff (posts and comments) once a month or two ago and I've been using lemmy for less than a year.

So using Joplin keeps them safe too

[-] nnullzz@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I know it doesn’t help you now, but Apollo used to have a feature where you can save your posts in folders. Used that feature all the time. Maybe one of the Lemmy apps can implement something similar.

this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2024
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