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Although this question and this question are close to what I'm asking, I believe there may be a more developer centric solution out there.

So, SO - what do you use to keep track of all of the great information that you come across on a daily basis but can't afford to read at the time. I currently use del.icio.us but figured I'd poll the SO community to see if I was missing something.

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Everytime i find some blog post that seems more signal than noise, i print it. Every day i spend 2 hours in public transportation reading, if i dont have anything printed, i read some programming book.

While reading all that from a big list of blogs( codinghorror, joelonsoftware,debuggable, etc) is very helpful, and the books do a part of the trick, the truth is you have to be picky in which subjects you want to really keep up to date and follow a lot of sites if you want to be "the first" to know of the big stuff. But the diference between the first and "everyone else" is like 3 days if the news are important so really is not worth if for most of us.

DFectuoso
i hope you recycle after reading, else you're going to build up a big stack of papers :P
melaos
Actually i have a GBC binding machine and compile documents about some topics... friends and other programers usually come to my house to code and pick some of them... its not THAT bad if you think im actually using the paper(instade of the gov and other places just using them for paperwork)
DFectuoso
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Yada
Actually google has ceased development on Notebook and has closed it too new users. Article: http://www.pcworld.com/article/157734/google_kills_services_notebook_dodgeball_others_gone.html
Chad Okere
Here's the official announcement: http://googlenotebookblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/stopping-development-on-google-notebook.html
Chad Okere
+4  A: 

I use del.icio.us, too. I have the toolbar for firefox, and it's great! [EDIT:] OneNote is also good.

BBetances
+1  A: 

I love Microsoft OneNote - simple UI, no Save button, build-in instant search (including OCR!), integration with Outlook.

Also I use Google's Notebook, unfortunately Google is not going is not going to develop it anymore.

aku
+5  A: 

I would definitely recommend Evernote. I use it to keep snippets of code, project documentation, ideas, passwords, and with the web page clipper, I use it as a bookmark manager as well. Best of all, it's free and it syncs online, so everytime I have to format my boxes or something, I just sync it back up and I'm good to go. Can't recommend this product enough.

Dave
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If it's a difficult concept, or something I might refer to more than once, I generally print it. Then when I'm done with it I file it. Where filing generally means "put on the pile of other papers to your right". If that pile exceeds a certain threshold, say 10 centimeters, I move it to another pile. \o/

Jasper Bekkers
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Superdumbell
I did this on my office comp, and then found that when I switched cos, I lost all my bookmarks... Nowadays I use delicious.
Shivasubramanian A
A: 

I browse with Firefox, so I use Foxmarks to organize and sync. all my bookmarks across all my computers (you can also access them on a web page)

I have a special folder called "Brain" where I store all my good code links, generally i just store obscure little hacks that are hard to find, along with some of the good programming blogs / sites I visit often. I organize them using sub folders etc.

Also, when I come across an article and I don't have time to read it, I just Read It Later, then when I have time I read it over, either I trash it, or bookmark it.

Also, I subscribe to a bunch of different sites using Google Reader.

TJB
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Since Google Notebook was 'closed', i switched to ubernote

RSabet
A: 

I've thought of setting up a wiki for myself but I've never gotten to it. That's how I usually like to organize my information, that way I can access it from wherever I need it.

Joe Philllips
+1  A: 

I tried Evernote and quite liked it - you can store all kinds on information there using either their web interface or a small locally installed app (which I find more convenient). Searching through your data works really well, and Evernote will even find text that's actually contained in an image (ideal for photos of flip charts etc.). Currently I'm also experimenting with Ubernote...

ISW