The mess that is 'default browser'

[rikona]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 19:45:01 +0000
Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Rik,
> 
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 at 19:36, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the ideas! Is there an advantage in keeping them as HTML
> > files? I tend to keep some URLs as temporary text during some
> > research, and it's handy. And I store LOTS of downloaded info in
> > directory trees as well. I use recoll to search that downloaded
> > stuff - great pgm. 
> 
> The downside of putting everything in an HTML file is that, like a
> garden, every so often you have to go through an area and tidy it up.
> 
> The upside is that I can put things in categories and even
> cross-reference categories. And I can use text related tools like
> grep.
> 
> To make HTML checking easy, I put a hyperlink to
> http://validator.w3.org/nu/#file at the bottom of my HTML pages.
> Keeps my HTML clean.
> 
> For backups I use "tar" and for digging around for downloaded stuff
> in a directory tree I use the "find" command.

Thanks again for the added info re HTML. On downloaded stuff I usually
want to search the contents of a reference, not just the file name.
Recoll can do that, and can do rather complex searches for more
precision. Also, it is an indexed search - I can find a word/phrase in
2Tb of data file *contents* in just a few seconds. [I have a LOT of
data :-) ] It's like google for my box, but with privacy. :-)