do you track your notes/references? [closed]

Solution 1:

I'm a huge fan of TiddlyWiki (see http://www.tiddlywiki.com and http://www.tiddlywiki.org) for this. It's a single self-contained HTML file that you can use in pretty much any browser and gives you a simple Wiki-like notebook. It also lets you view entries by timeline, search entries, and view multiple entries at one time. The fact that it's fully self-contained means I can keep them on a flash drive so I always have my various notes files handy.

From the TiddlyWiki site:

TiddlyWiki is a single html file which has all the characteristics of a wiki - including all of the content, the functionality (including editing, saving, tagging and searching) and the style sheet. Because it's a single file, it's very portable - you can email it, put it on a web server or share it via a USB stick.

I haven't found anything else that quite compares for simplicity and functionality.

Solution 2:

I'm a fan of Evernote, because I can use it from everywhere: Web, Windows, Mac and last, but not least my mobile phone (iPhone). It automatically synchronizes to the web, so there is no need for backups on the single machines. Full text search is another indispensable feature I need.

For collecting and categorizing/tagging my links, I use delicious.com, the social bookmarking site.