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Is stuff online worth saving?

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135 points Brajeshwar | 2 comments | 17 Dec 24 14:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.401s | source
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Viktoire ◴[21 Dec 24 15:41 UTC] No.42480265[source]▶
When I save things, I try to make sure that it'll be immediately useful to me once I find it again.

I'll highlight, summarise and take notes of what I save. Or some combination of those. If I don't find anything new or directly applicable to my life, I'll let it pass by.

This approach isn't good for archival purposes, but I hesitate to save a lot of things that I'll never read again.

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ghaff ◴[21 Dec 24 16:09 UTC] No.42480423[source]▶
I'm going through my file cabinets right now. I'll keep a few things that catch my eye but I'll likely throw out most of it. The odd 25 year old computer magazine is probably interesting but not all of them collectively for the most part. And I'm certainly not going to index them in a way that they'd be useful to me.
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1. theshrike79 ◴[22 Dec 24 06:29 UTC] No.42484731[source]▶
I went through mine and cut out the stuff that was still relevant, threw out the rest of the magazine.

Ended up with a single folder of clippings about x86 assembly etc

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2. ghaff ◴[22 Dec 24 13:27 UTC] No.42486157[source]▶
That's more or less what I did over time. No harm in a few folders of clippings for old times sake but not really boxes and boxes of magazines that will probably never be looked at.