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Re:WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of th... by andrepd on Monday May 18, 2020 @06:45PM (#23229264)
How is this "not as powerful"? What is this tool lacking that save to pdf provides? I can see at least one way it is vastly inferior, in that you break formatting by converting to a horrendous paper page-based format.
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Re:WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of th... by fit2rule on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @12:56AM (#23231380)
Off-line mode, my data is my data, and I can process the data freely and easily using my own local tools without getting anyone else' CPU involved.

And the formatting issue isn't really that big of a deal, if I'm honest. The formatting did its work in the initial contact of the web page - beyond that, to me anyway, its superfluous to the later task of finding the reference again. pdftotext don't care about the formatting, either.

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Re:WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of th... by andrepd on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @07:15AM (#23233592)
>Off-line mode, my data is my data, and I can process the data freely and easily using my own local tools without getting anyone else' CPU involved.

Open the page and you will probably realise that unless you want to pay for sync, this extention works offline.

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Re:WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of th... by fit2rule on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:46AM (#23244354)
I don't want to pay for sync, because print-to-pdf is my sync, and is free.
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