For me, I tend to open browser tabs when I am using my RSS reader River5 through my reading list app. I then keep the tabs open until I read the tab, and save it somehow if I want to keep the URL. For most of my browsing life, the “save” action is to copy the URL to a link dump file. I have used text files, Libre Office word documents, and a notes app on my phone. I used to let these files get really big, then I decided to stop doing that and creating a new file at the beginning of the month. You can probably tell that I have quite a collection of links. And, after copying links to the file, I rarely (IF EVER) would go back to those links (so mostly a write-only file). In 2022, I did try using a “zettlekasten” approach to collecting links by category (using an OPML file and a static website). However, I eventually went back to link dumps…

This weekend, with a lot of cold weather coming, anticipating I would not be going anywhere, I decided to bite the bullet and review all my open tabs, and create posts on my website for each link I wanted to save. If you are one of my 3-4 regular readers, I apologize for the link flood. I added categories for each link (all of them also have the “Links” category), started with using the Status post type, then switched to Link post type later in the day. I will be finishing the tab review today, then hope to keep up with adding links to my site. I will have to see how I like the look on the website (in other words, if I want to create a separate view for posts with the category “Links”), but I am hoping to give this a good try for the rest of the month.

Let me know if you have any ideas/techniques for managing links that you want to save!