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The failure of the Web ecosystem as a readily viable document management system is a pretty scathing indictment.

As I write this, I'm desparately trying to winnow my way to "tab zero" (by analog to "inbox zero"). And, at some point, organise the pages I've turned up as interesting to be filed for later research and assimilation.

I'm using a tablet as my primary browsing device lately (battery life, weight, portrait aspect for long-form reading, plus keyboard), but this means hugely stripped down browser capabilities. While I've got bookmarks, there's no tagging or other organisation possible. Even Readability's app (abandonware for the past 3 years) lacks tags. Calibre and Zotero don't have a full-fledged Android apps, Mendeley is owned by Elseveir (no fucking way I'm getting close to that).

And so it goes.



My mind turns towards a Pinboard archival account with tag searches in browser bookmarks.


That seems to be the standard solution, and speaks to Maciej's results. It doesn't lessen the indictment any.




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