On saving web stuff

I came across this interesting article on saving your own copy of an article.

At first I thought, it's a waste of effort and disk space to store it and spend time migrating it to a new future platform. But the nostalgia argument hit me, actually.

Saving a news article that caught my interest today may not be very interesting tomorrow, next week or even next year. But in 10 years or more, it might give insight in the life I lived and what was going on in the world, and how we progressed from that point in time (hopefully).

So I decided to start saving things again, but this time in Standard Notes in the hope it will be a viable platform to store such clips. I'm already using it from my everyday notes and this little blog, and it's flexible enough to turn it into an open source and private Evernote alternative.

In this process I keep a note for each article, with the proper tagging and a summary text. If the page in question is more than just text-only, I store a simplified PDF or a capture with the SingleFile extension with it.