Ask HN: How do you take, manage and retrieve notes from pdfs and online sources

2 the-mitr 0 8/4/2025, 10:12:43 AM

I usually used to maintain a org file, and sometimes used Notes app on Mac OS. For online sources I have used hypothes.is for a while. But overall my notes are scattered all the place. I could not find a good way to organise and retrieve the notes when needed. Especially quotes from pdf books and other online sources. I want to be better organised in this regard. Please share your workflows and strategies to take and retrieve notes.

Fast (catherinejue.com)

Study mode (openai.com)

Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year (helsinkitimes.fi)

Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server (github.com)

EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google (reddit.com)

Dumb Pipe (dumbpipe.dev)

‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video] (bbc.com)

Slow (michaelnotebook.com)

Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs (geoffreylitt.com)

Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork (github.com)

Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others (drawafish.com)

If you're remote, ramble (stephango.com)

M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued (earthquake.usgs.gov)

Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act (use-their-id.com)

Modern Node.js Patterns (kashw1n.com)

Vibe code is legacy code (blog.val.town)

Our $100M Series B (oxide.computer)

Face it: you're a crazy person (experimental-history.com)

‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler (latimes.com)

VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in (ft.com)

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives (blog.cloudflare.com)

Tom Lehrer has died (nytimes.com)

Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria (science.org)

Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship (polygon.com)

Telo MT1 (telotrucks.com)

Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations (cpb.org)

Claude Code weekly rate limits

My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air) (simonwillison.net)

Sign in with Google in Chrome (underpassapp.com)

6 weeks of Claude Code (blog.puzzmo.com)

Ollama's new app (ollama.com)

Tao on “blue team” vs. “red team” LLMs (mathstodon.xyz)

How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created? (movies.stackexchange.com)

4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program (kcrw.com)

iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras (candid9.com)

The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong (derekthompson.org)

MacBook Pro Insomnia (manuel.bernhardt.io)

Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills (hadid.dev)

Writing a good design document (grantslatton.com)

We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness (newyorker.com)

Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300% (science.org)

Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided (digitalcourage.social)

When we get Komooted (bikepacking.com)

At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery (quantamagazine.org)

Gemini 2.5 Deep Think (blog.google)

Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down (pcgamer.com)

Cerebras Code (cerebras.ai)

LLM Embeddings Explained: A Visual and Intuitive Guide (huggingface.co)

I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave (themaister.net)

This Month in Ladybird (ladybird.org)

Ask HN: How do you take, manage and retrieve notes from pdfs and online sources

Comments (0)