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I want to build a resource for my personal use in keeping up with all the information available all over the web and this site on tips, tricks, explanations, tutorials, solutions, etc dealing with ee.

Often when we are looking for information, we stumble on things that we know we will probably need to find again.  In my case, when I stumble upon something I won’t be able to find it again when I really need it.  So what I’m curious about is how do YOU file away this information so you can find it again.  I thought about just bookmarking with the browser, but then I end up with this long list of bookmarks that I have a hard time remembering why they were bookmarked in the first place.

Surely, there are some of you very, very organized people out there that have come up with some really good ways to keep information right at your finger tips that you can share.

Well myself what I do is first and foremost have all my browser bookmarks neatly filed in folders and sub-folders so that they are listed with reference to what they are. I also (luckily for me) have a fairly photographic memory so can pretty much remember anything I have seen before and remember it in the future. I think being a musician that plays by ear helps with that one though! 😉

On the other hand if there are code snippets that I come up with or find on the internet then I simply have a copy of the best CMS in the world 😉 installed on a Localhost and save items to a weblog with different categories so that I can find them again in a hurry.

I have a couple of other programmes that I sometimes use that do pretty much the same thing as the two options above though but that’s the general gist of it for me 😊

Don’t know if that helps at all though.

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks for the reply.  I didn’t think of using ee to keep track of everything ee.  This may be a way to also learn how to build a wiki and test my organizational skills.

I’ve got a local EE Wiki set up for this purpose, as well. Also, organized bookmarks like Mark (with BookIt app, to sync bookmarks across Mac browsers).

Yojimbo. That’s what I use. It’s for mac only though. But it really makes things easy to find for later. I use tag collections (a specific type of smart folder) and search in Yojimbo quite often while developing an EE-based site. In fact, most of my development reference notes go into Yojimbo.

Microsoft One Note works well with Windows ...

And so does Evernote .. (evernote.com)

and there is another tabbed index called MyInfo .. (myinfo.com)

http://c-command.com/eaglefiler/

I use EssentialPIM Pro on Windows. In the notes section I keep track all my bits of information. There is I nice To Do section,  Contacts and Schedules. Notes can have links to other notes or to contacts. Synchronisation with Google calendar is possible.

Google Notebook

I use a combination of Evernote and Diigo.

Diigo is one of the few social bookmarking services that saves *cached copies* of all bookmarked pages. So if the actual page disappears from the ‘Net, or changes drastically, you still have a full-text copy of whatever you bookmarked in the first place. In addition, you can add highlights and stickynotes to bookmarked pages, and all your bookmarks, highlights, and stickynotes are available from any computer anywhere.

Evernote i use for everything that *isn’t* a bookmark: funny images, snippets of code, recipes, etc. It’s also available from anywhere, and syncs with its desktop application. I’m a little annoyed about their new subscription model, and have been thinking about switching to a Wiki or something, but the handwriting recognition feature (snap a photo of a handwritten note, upload it to Evernote, and it will *index the text*) is pretty hard to beat.

Yes this has been a huge issue for me for ages and ages…

It makes sense as we are computer literate so in theory there should be some web based place… like a CMS - like EE - where the info can be accessed from any web browser, it can be secured (as we often store login ID’s and passwords as well as serial numbers) and also not reliant on having a client program.

Sounds easier then it is - at least for me…

While I have tried a number of different things I still have not settled on one thing in particular.

One issue is relying on something like Google NoteBook - well it is a free service and if it gets hacked…also with things like local programs again the developer may stop the product so your data is left in limbo…

Paranoid? Who me?

Then there are all the “Other” bits of data - PDF’s and images and so on - that are equally important to you…

I shall keep searching tho!

Respect.

I really liked all of these:
Zotero for Firefox
http://www.projectpier.org/ nice for archives but hard to even make links and bookmark pages
ExpressionEngine/Metaweblog API/zoundryraven blog everything.
Xampplite and a local wiki.
Just some ideas.

I’m surprised no one mentioned del.icio.us. That is what been using but I think Ill start using Google Notebook… looks good.

Since hearing mention of Yojimbo, I started researching other similar programs, and I’m now giving Journler a try. I’ve never used this type of software before, so I’m trying to wrap my head around it. It’s a bit handier than using the wiki, though.

I really like Yojimbo but I just took a second look at Google Notebook and it looks really good. When I had looked at it previously it lacked something (couldn’t put my finger on it). Now it’s got me interested which I hate when that happens because I like to stick with one app… And since I have over 600 items in Yojimbo it’ll be interesting to see which one I decide to go with.

@Brynley: I hear ya on both counts… free, web app vs local, installed programs… pros and cons on both.