<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Rik,<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 at 19:36, rikona <<a href="mailto:rikona@sonic.net">rikona@sonic.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Thanks for the ideas! Is there an advantage in keeping them as HTML<br>
files? I tend to keep some URLs as temporary text during some research,<br>
and it's handy. And I store LOTS of downloaded info in directory trees<br>
as well. I use recoll to search that downloaded stuff - great pgm.<br></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">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.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">The upside is that I can put things in categories and even cross-reference categories. And I can use text related tools like grep.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">To make HTML checking easy, I put a hyperlink to <a href="http://validator.w3.org/nu/#file">http://validator.w3.org/nu/#file</a> at the bottom of my HTML pages. Keeps my HTML clean.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">For backups I use "tar" and for digging around for downloaded stuff in a directory tree I use the "find" command.</div><div><br></div><div>HTH,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ian</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - <a href="http://www.accu.org" target="_blank">http://www.accu.org</a><br></div>-- My writing - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/</a><br><div>-- Free Software page - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software</a><br></div><br> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>