My Hacker News knowledge assimilation stack
The critical issue with this so-called stack is the effort to set this up. It seems simple in words but consider how many steps, tools, plugins, devices, human intervention are required to achieve it. Is it reliable? Nope. Is it better? Nope.<p>You still have to remember those keywords you added so you haven&#x27;t gotten rid of the memory problem. If even one moving part fails to function properly, the whole system will break so you haven&#x27;t solved the maintainability problem. And clearly, this doesn&#x27;t solve the time problem either.<p>When I bookmark something on HN, it is usually because I don&#x27;t have enough time to read it or I want to read it again later on. I don&#x27;t bookmark comments or save them. Not because they aren&#x27;t interesting but because informal content like comments are really easy to understand. They are short and to the point.<p>So I take what information I can and move on. If I forget...well, maybe it wasn&#x27;t that important to remember in the first place. If I forget but want to remember, which is rare, I can just go through the bookmarks, open the relevant link, and go through the comments again or Ctrl + F if I remember something. This is rare. So rare that I can afford to do it manually.<p>The problem with &quot;knowledge assimilation&quot; aka note taking is that after a certain point, you have more &quot;knowledge&quot; than you even want. The extra becomes noise. At first, the idea to clip and save anything interesting seems so fascinating but soon you realize that you have saved so much that it&#x27;s become a problem.<p>That&#x27;s why using the right tool for the right job is important. Bookmarks are perfect for things you want to save without them getting in the way of more important things. They are just a list. Nothing overkill. No complex organization. No complicated processes. Just press a button and viola!<p>I do, however, commend the ingenuity of the OP in making such a system. I wonder how long it took to set this all up.