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Ask HN: How are you tracking tools / products to try out later?

by kot-behemoth on 3/22/24, 9:14 PM with 1 comments

For several years now, while reading HN and Xitter every day, I've been collecting lots of tools, projects and technical blog posts to "try out later". Most of them are never used, or stop being developed. But quite a few end up resurfacing, or being useful for new projects I start.

What do you use to keep track of tools / products you want to try out later? Or for keeping a library of "state of the art" to try at your $JOB?

Bookmarking services is the usual answer, but I don't feel like they're good enough. Or Notion/Obsidian/Org-mode. The main limitation with these is that once you clip a tool - there's so much metadata to fill out. Ideally, you want to be able to just save the link, and the tool would at least suggest tags, and get a summary description, with key functionality pulled out automatically.

Designers have a ton of options like https://eagle.cool. Is there something similar for tech product/tools?

  • by treetalker on 3/23/24, 3:18 AM

    On iOS, share the website to a “Check Out” list on Reminders. Simple; native; supports date/time/location reminders; and supports adding additional notes.

    Keep it simple!