My apologies for the long title.

I’m looking for something to organise the materials I collect on various topics. As mentioned, these usually include archived webpages, documents/manuals, media (pictures, videos, audio) etc.

I know I could just create a directory system for this (and will likely do so if I can’t find anything like what I describe), but just wanted to ask if anything like what I want exists.

Thanks!

  • vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Use files when possible - I use a combination of:

    • filesystem hierarchy (max 3-4 levels deep, I can share the general structure if needed)
    • markdown notes for wiki-like content or notes (either versioned in git - so also accessible from my Gitea instance, or under the Nextcloud Notes/ directory, so also accessible from the Nextcloud Notes app)
    • software mirrors either through a mirroring script or using Gitea’s mirroring feature
    • Shaarli for bookmarks and wiki-like content, which get processed every day by a script that archives content to local files (mostly audio/video for now, I’m still writing the page archiving part, archivebox is too bloated for my needs and is missing critical features such as ad blocking)

    All these components are linked in some way or another (e.g. all media automatically goes to the media directory of a jellyfin instance)

    • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Thanks, I do plan to use a organisation structure with plain directories. Please do share, it would help me greatly!

      Indeed, I too plan to use markdown for any notes on what I’m looking at/is relevant to the object of interest.

      Thank you for the note about archivebox, I didn’t think about this before! Indeed, that would be very important: are you writing an alternative tool? Would you like to share the repo? I was considering just using wget to pull down pages but that might not work all the time.

      Thanks a bunch!

  • Rik@laguna.chatEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    How will you interact with this system (search bar, file explorer and etc.)? How will you organize this system? What devices should be able to access this data?

    There are lots of systems to store documents, information about objects, media and much more. But it has to be useful for use case.

    For example: Navidrome is great for music as it allows you to streammusic from you mobile device or computer.

    Zotero (can be self hosted using WebDAV) is great for searching through PDF/epubs and stored webpages. But it is a citation management system. It has to fit your use case.

    If you want an allrouder than take a look at Nextcloud or Owncloud. They both can edit documents, play music and display pictures.