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!

  • @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.