My apologies for the long title.

I’m looking for something to organise the materials I collect on various topics. As mentioned, these usually include archived webpages, documents/manuals, media (pictures, videos, audio) etc.

I know I could just create a directory system for this (and will likely do so if I can’t find anything like what I describe), but just wanted to ask if anything like what I want exists.

Thanks!

  • RikEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    How will you interact with this system (search bar, file explorer and etc.)? How will you organize this system? What devices should be able to access this data?

    There are lots of systems to store documents, information about objects, media and much more. But it has to be useful for use case.

    For example: Navidrome is great for music as it allows you to streammusic from you mobile device or computer.

    Zotero (can be self hosted using WebDAV) is great for searching through PDF/epubs and stored webpages. But it is a citation management system. It has to fit your use case.

    If you want an allrouder than take a look at Nextcloud or Owncloud. They both can edit documents, play music and display pictures.

    • @MigratingtoLemmyOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Hi, let’s take an example of me researching about HBAs.

      1. I will archive the articles/blogs/pages I find relevant (I would also like for a tool to check the origin URL of these assets and for it to go an grab the latest version of them).
      2. I will download documents/PDFs/Manuals on various HBAs and would like to store them (thanks for mentioning Zotero, I do want to search through PDFs sometimes and it’s annoying. I hope it can automatically grab metadata for files).
      3. I might download audio/video as supporting media/interesting aspects of what I’m looking for (say I find an interesting point in a podcast, I’ll clip that part of the audio and store it here).
      4. I’ll write any notes I have in markdown and store them with the rest of the assets (in this case, it would list the quirks of the HBAs I have read about and which one would fit my plans).

      I am not looking at Nextcloud since I find it too bloated for my purposes. I plan to host OpenSearch to search through the assets in my lab, however I would also like to maintain tight control over my storage, so I don’t have to rely on an internal search engine to find something.

      Thanks for reading, and I apologise if I sound a bit curt: Lemmy didn’t register my response the first time and I had typed a really long response.

      • @czardestructoEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Sounds like what you want is fairly close to Joplin. You can get a web clipper, attach files, type notes and organize it all arbitrarily.