Comment by chaosharmonic
10 hours ago
I'd say it's more that when I hoard links, a small slice of them end up becoming useful reference knowledge long-term.
Though I don't really have a system for storing them effectively as of yet, and as someone with a strong preference for open source on my critical workflows, I never got on the Obsidian train myself. Current experiment is Silverbullet.md, because I do very much like raw Markdown and file-based notes, but that's different from having a meaningfully fleshed-out setup haha
That makes sense — link hoarding is basically “maybe-useful reference capture”, and the hard part is turning that small slice into something retrievable without spending your life organizing.
The open-source + file-based constraint is a strong signal. One direction I’m exploring is to keep everything as raw sources (links/files) and build a local index over them, so you can pull a “what do I already have on X?” brief on demand, without needing a fully curated Obsidian-style setup.
For Silverbullet specifically: what would “meaningfully useful” look like for you as a first step?
1. better recall (fuzzy/semantic search over saved links + notes)
2. periodic resurfacing (a digest of “you saved this months ago, might matter now”)
3. extracting a lightweight summary + a few key takeaways per link
Details in my HN profile/bio if you want the longer context.