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What should I use to sort my saved comments? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Sometimes I come accross a comment that provides really good insight about a topic, and I want to keep it around. The problem is that the save feature on Lemmy/Reddit just creates one massive pile of hundreds of comments. This defeats the point of saving it because when I later encounter the topic that it related to, I'd still have to dig through this massive pile to be able to find it – so the save feature has in fact not made it any more accessible. I feel like someone on the internet must have surely worked out how to catalog these snippets of text in a way that allows you to quickly find the ones relevant to what you're currently doing. Perhaps some sort of tagging/mind map system? What do you use? I have considered Google Keep but my Keep is already a mess as is.

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[–] hallettj@beehaw.org 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I like to use Obsidian for this kind of thing. It has tagging, and you can link notes and see the network of links in a visualizer. There's also a "canvas" feature that lets you lay out notes spatially in whatever way makes sense to you. I assume there is a web clipping plugin which could make it easy to grab the comment content and link at the same time.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

Logseq is another interesting tool https://logseq.com/

[–] akwd169@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I use the view comment source option and copy the entire comment, then paste it into a note in Joplin.

That way I can choose which note it goes into (like folders) for organization, and I have control over my saved stuff.

I already lost all my lemmy saved stuff (posts and comments) once a month or two ago and I've been using lemmy for less than a year.

So using Joplin keeps them safe too

[–] nnullzz@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I know it doesn’t help you now, but Apollo used to have a feature where you can save your posts in folders. Used that feature all the time. Maybe one of the Lemmy apps can implement something similar.