nicholascloud's comments

In a similar vein, I recommend Neil Postman's book "How to Watch TV News". It's a little dated, but his recommendations are still relevant to modern media formats. One of his most interesting (and obvious in hindsight) insights is that "news" is NOT what is happening around you; it's what someone else TELLS YOU is happening around you, based on a complex set of criteria that they use to prioritize, include, and exclude information, and is not in any way comprehensive. This is necessary due to the limits of communication, but can also have profound effects on the impressions we then carry with us regarding what we think about the world around us. The book is short, but rich; I highly recommend it.

A couple of people have mentioned Evernote, which is a great product, and a great service, with a great plugin for Chromium-based browsers (even Edgium!). However, I love me some markdown, so I've started using Boostnote for my actual "thought" notes. I like it quite a bit, and I've found a few tools that help me "clip" articles from the web and turn them into markdown. So far, I prefer `clean-mark` (https://github.com/croqaz/clean-mark#readme), because it has more consistent conversion and better meta-data generation, but I've also used `hget` (https://github.com/bevacqua/hget), which, in my experience, is not as robust but sometimes catches things that `clean-mark` misses.