Does anyone use daily notes (or a similar approach) to keep track of internet browsing history and/or YouTube viewing history?
If so, have you found any tricks for making this process easy or automated?
It seems like these would be a valuable supplemental record of “information I’m taking in,” but they’re currently pretty distinct from books or from real note-taking.
lol Exactly. That’s why I was wondering if someone might have come up with a brilliant idea to automate this. Because realistically, I’m not going to do this if it’s multiple steps.
This would be nice to have. I just plod on through my day by noting the time and inserting a weblink to pages I’ve visited.
The daily notes gets quite ‘busy’ as the day wears on.
Do you just want a list of URLs, or something more? (I’d generally want something more — ideally summaries but at least titles for items with meaningless URLs.)
I’ve got some shortcuts set up to very easily put the title and URL of the current Google Chrome tab at the bottom of my daily note, which has an ‘Explore’ section. Often that’s just a list of links, but I often extend it with extra info if I learned something interesting from that particular link.
I’ve set up an Alfred workflow that triggers an AppleScript that pasts the active Chrome/Safari tab’s URL and title as a Markdown link, with some extra formatting for specific websites.
On iPhone:
I’ve built a little custom app that shows up in the share sheet, but you could do the same think with iOS Shortcuts and the Advanced URI plugin.