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> I know that Pinboard's premium service can archive each bookmark I send there (I've been thinking about enabling it just so I have permanent copies of interviews), but archiving an entire page is overkill for when I just want to save one image or one choice sentence from the page.

Hard drive space is cheap, cheaper than your own time when you discover you want context or perhaps some other choice sentence from that page. The best solution is to save the whole page, and annotate the bit of interest.

(My own current solution-hack is two parallel systems: manual Evernotes for specific quotes or photos, and an automatic archive system that downloads the entire page: http://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs So I consult one or the other as appropriate.)



> The best solution is to save the whole page, and annotate the bit of interest.

Agreed. That's definitely something I'd love to see Gimme Bar do: in addition to showing me the quote I pulled out of the page, also give me the option to see the full page, with the text I quoted highlighted.




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