I'm looking for a web-based service where I can store notes and clips and links and whatever else pops into my head or I come across that I want to remember or save.
Isn't that called... a "web log"?
Some people have private livejournals for that, ogged.
I thought it would be neat to have a del.icio.us-like service that was just for bits of text that you could tag; an online commonplace book, basically. I even thought of doing it myself until I realized that I have no web design skills, vanishingly little web programming skill, and no host.
Oh, c'mon ogged. How annoying could commenters get?
They're really coming through in this thread.
Get out of my head, Ogged.
w-lfs-n: what about Ning, for the "no host" part? (Just wondering, I don't actually know that this would do the trick.)
Scrapbook as an extension for Firefox, if it's just clipping with links that you want.
Hey arthegall, what was all the commotion about?
I took arthegall to be pooh-poohing pdf's minor myopia.
Web-based. Ah. Someone else has a Google Notebook like service, but I can't recall who that is. Just do Google , you dick.
You guys feel bad about not being able to help me, so you hurt me. I'm on to you.
You might want to give stikkit a try. It's still in beta (isn't everything these days?) and they pump out improved features every couple of weeks. It has search and does bookmarks + todo lists + address books + meeting reminders + general notes...should be right up your alley.
Aha! There ya go, something I hadn't heard about. Thanks wink. Hang your heads in shame, the rest of you. And the rest of the rest of you, keep 'em coming.
No problem. I find that I like stikkit a lot more than Backpack. Backpack makes you click on too many things to get things done; stikkit lets you do most everything via text and then parses the text to categorize everything correctly. That is much more the way I'm used to jotting down my notes, so it matches my workflow better. Hope the tip is useful...
Stikkit does look useful but in my limited experience is slooooow.
This is totally unhelpful, but there was a service that I used once, and that I had the link to on my mac, but can't remember what it was called. It was really helpful for saving articles that were going to disappear into the archives of a newspaper. You could keep things private or share them with others.
Stikkit is probably the best fit for what Ogged is talking about, but I personally just use a draft email called "scratch" in my Gmail drafts folder.
Firefox just did an automatic security update (a feature I didn't even know I had turned on), restarted itself (closing all my tabs), and now all my bookmarks are missing. This happen to anyone else?
Nope. Check the mozilla forums; they're usually pretty good about help. Although if your bookmarks are really gone (there's no bookmarks.html file on your computer now?), you're probably kinda screwed.
Doesn't Furl do a lot of what you want? I can't, however, vouch for its reliability.
Furl is mainly for saving web pages, but I also want to jot down the occasional note from my head.