On iOS I use Pinbook to view bookmarks on the go. I find that the visual preview of the website in Delish helps enormously when hunting an elusive bookmark. I use the Pinboard workflow for Alfred for quick, small searches. Without tags, bookmarks can be a pain to find, even with full-text search. I do this because almost none of the third-party apps show suggested tags for the site being saved. I use the Pinboard bookmarklet to add bookmarks to Pinboard. I also pay for the $25/year archiving service so I can run full-text searches. We must be able to trust the system as much as we trust Google. Without the knowledge that we can retrieve anything at a moment’s notice, the system breaks down. Getting data out of your system is of utmost importance. For bookmarks, that is Pinboard’s website. Output is how we retrieve data from the system. When we encounter something we want to save, we shouldn’t have to mentally vie with eight different ways to store it. Too many input systems can lead to confusion. Input is the method of getting data into your system. The programmer’s notebook is also a system, and every system has methods of input and output. The programmer’s notebook doesn’t have just one type of data. The programmer’s notebook is our personal Google our outboard brain. The programmer’s notebook must allow for instant recall and painless entry. It would be nice if we could keep everything in a stack of paper bound with metal, but that isn’t our medium. The programmer’s notebook is inherently non-physical. Every growing professional should have a notebook of some kind-that very personal, permanent collection of useful artifacts related to your trade.
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