It's becoming increasingly challenging to remember the seemingly interesting and/or important points in articles, blog posts, tweets and Facebook posts you read everyday. What with this deluge of information that's now available online.

Thankfully, there are a number of tools (and the more traditional pen-and-paper combo) which can ease the pressure on our brains. This article details how one journalist uses Evernote to keep notes and "remember" the important things he's read.

I thought I'd ask some science writers how they go about remembering stuff. How do you collect goodies that you've read? How do you collect all of the links you include in your blog posts? How do you keep note of who said that tremendous quote? Feel free to share.

Short-term/to read: Pocket, plus an RSS that collects tweets I 'favorite.' Might-blog: Bookmark folder in Safari. Of longer interest/might want someday: Devonthink Pro Office, richly tagged. DTP's AI "See also" algorithm tends to find them.

But I still feel like I lose stuff.

Very old-school: WordPad files on desktop.

WordPad. Man.

I must admit that right now I have myself organised over many different services. Somehow it seems to work.

Pocket + Google Reader for reading. Google Docs for writing and taking notes. Dropbox for all other files (like PDFs, audio, images). And many folders on Chrome (which sync across all devices) for bookmarks.

I seem to hang on to Dropbox only because I don't know what would happen if ever Google's services stopped working.

PS: Wordpad? Ha! @BoraZ deserves the title of Blog father for one more reason.

PPS: RSS feed of favourited tweets is such a brilliant idea. Thanks @David_Dobbs.

Interesting. So David and Akshat, you use different platforms while Bora, you use the one.

David, you actually filter your notes based on how you intend to use them in the future. Aren't there instances when the note you need isn't on the platform it should be in though?

Bora, you stick with one platform (with a more traditional text dumping in WordPad). My question is how do you find stuff in Wordpad, especially if the document scrolls to infinity? Or do you have numerous files?

I have a few core files, with HTML already in them the way I want it, e.g., for my evening linkfests, for SA Incubator Picks, etc. so I just throw URLs into them as I find them. Then I also collect links specifically on a topic I want to blog about. I usually have a couple of those files floating around. Once I publish the post, I delete that file.

Um, hi. Thanks for the invite, Khalil. I have many tortured strategies, but the most important ones are Evernote for things I want to follow up on (blog fodder, story fodder, stash for book/projects), foldered and tagged; and DevonThink Pro for long-term storage/retrieval. The clip-widgets for both are an important part of my daily workflow.

This gets stuff into my storage. Remembering to look and see what's there is a separate issue...

DD, how do you set up that RSS?

Maryn uses Evernote for things she's likely to require access to soonish.

For my part, I'm now using Evernote only. I was using it sparsely for the past year and mostly dumped everything in but I now have proper stacks and folders and I'm still reworking on getting all my tags organised. I also installed the Chrome extensions, Web clipper and Clearly which are great ways to quickly grab selected snippets of or the entire articles respectively. I also resist using any other apps whose functionality can be more or less matched by Evernote (even if it requires more time on my part) because I really want everything to be on one platform. Just easier for me.

Maryn, My RSS is: api.twitter.com Just replace my username with yours in there.