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Ask HN: Simple service to save my stuff?

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There's probably a service out there that does the following, but I'm not sure what it is.

1) Always working on code snippets at work or home that I want to save. Usually end up emailing them to myself.

2) Same thing with URLs. There's a lot of URLs I'll find that I want to save. I don't use bookmarks and I'm not interested in extensions that sync up to online storage systems.

2) I don't have a lot of interest in sharing things. That works for some people but this is just a personal tool that I want.

3) Really easy to search. Basically I want a search box that I type into and it'll try to match from the records.

Any suggestions?

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I'm actually working on something a bit like this. It's a super early prototype, but it'd be cool to hear what you think.

http://eric.drumsti.cc/

It's designed to be public or private, with one or many users. No search yet, but it's definitely a major feature.

EDIT: To answer your question more directly, google notebook and drop.io are two functional services that are doing this type of thing right now.

This is REALLY close to what I was looking for. Any time I tried to post something, I kept getting a Name error.

I'm on twitter, @geuis

Yeah that's my user friendly way of saying you're not logged in.. I sent you some login info

Rent a webhosting account for $8/mo. Create a git or mercurial repository. Clone.

For bonus points, install ikiwiki, which takes a repository of markdown files and publishes it as a wiki. It's a wiki compiler. And if you edit the wiki, it updates your repository.

For extra bonus points, automatically infer links between these documents and smooth the organizational structure using machine learning and natural language processing.

Are you using Mac? Open a folder. Highlight the link or the text that you want to save. Drag them to the folder. If you want to search for it, use the search functionality in finder.

Since you are not going to share those items with people, so, it is a bit overkilled to upload those things to the web unless you want all your data to be on the cloud. If that is the case, use dropbox to sync your folder.

Hmm, that's really cool but not quite what I'm looking for. That definitely has a use between work and home though.

GitHub

Or one of the YC Startups Snipd.com ^^

Try snipt.net

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