I’m working as a web developer and have lots (hundreds) of links with hacks, tutorials and code snippets that I don’t want to memorize. I am currently using evernote to save the content of my links as snippets and have them searchable and always available (even if the source site is down).
I spend a lot of time on tagging, sorting, evaluating and saving stuff to evernote and I’m not quite happy with the outcome. I ended up with a multitude of tags and keep reordering and renaming tags while retagging saved articles.
My Requirements
- web based
- saving web content as snippets with rich styling (code sections, etc.)
- interlinked entries possible
- chrome plugin for access to content
- chrome plugin for content generation
- web app or desktop client for faster sorting / tagging / batch processing
- good and flexible search mechanism
- (bonus) google search integration (search results from KnowledgeBase within google search results)
I had a look at kippt but that doesn’t seem to be a solution for me. If I don’t find a better solution, I’m willing to stay with evernote as it meets nearly all my needs but I need a good plan to sort through my links/snippets once and get them in order.
Which solutions do you use and how do you manage your knowledge base?
I’m a big Evernote fan but a stern critic of all my tools. I’ve stuck with Evernote because I’m happy enough with its fundamental information structures. I am, however, currently working on some apps to provide visualisations and hopefully better ways to navigate complex sets of notes.
A few tips, based on years of using Evernote and wiki’s for collaboration and software project management: