Are you a tab or bookmark hoarder? Do you have any techniques to deal with the problem?

johnny makes ⚡️
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Nowadays I save my content to Fabric (AI internet drive), but before that I actually used to save links and ideas to a to-do board in Trello. What techniques have you come up with?

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Joshua Dance
Two rules. 1. If you want to save it, actually put it somewhere useful. That means putting it in context (save a link about nuclear power with your other links about nuclear power) don't just save it in a list. 2. Throw everything else in a list. You 'have it' so you don't worry about it, but you are really never going to look at it.
johnny makes ⚡️
@joshdance I totally feel the context one - otherwise you have the thing but without any memory of why it mattered on #2 - that’s kinda my preferred workflow - something where I can throw content in without needing to stop (because I likely won’t consistently!)
It's a bit of a mish-mash for me at the moment. Some stuff I save to PKM tools like Roam/Reflect with context (I think @joshdance has a great point!). I have a couple of other "infinite pools" to save content: 1. mymind (AI tagging) 2. pinboard.in (with tags) So far I haven't found one tool to solve all my needs in one place.
johnny makes ⚡️
@jdsimcoe ah that’s very interesting - so you’ve ended up with a few tools to cover the gaps of each?