I plead guilty. I am a digital hoarder. I collect songs, papers, books, articles, places, videos, etc, etc. Because of this I use several systems to manage those things: Google Maps favorites, bookmarks, read-it-later apps, Calibre, Zotero, playlists, and lists everywhere. Those things generate thoughts, which I collect in Logseq as they come and link to other thoughts. I constantly try to keep those things out of Logseq because those are too many, and I prefer to keep them isolated until they earn their place on Logseq, near my thoughts.
However, I’m a bit tired of having so many boxes in my life, some of them are paid services. Some others take my lists and make inferences about my life to send me ads or lock me in their subscriptions forever. In general the work of those apps is futile; they just have an appropriate metadata structure for the thing they store and a database to collect many of those things in lists linked to my profile.
I have come to think that having those apps is unnecessary because Logseq has the capability to do both, create metadata and collect stuff, which I’ll own in my graph , and manage with my workflow or AI.
I’m hesitant to do this because the many things I collect , will not be useful, and I want to keep my graph lean.
I want to know if some of you feel a similar problem, and if you have used Logseq to solve it. How? Did it work for you? How long are your collections?, How do you capture, on your desk, on the go, or on paper? What would you do with your very appreciated collections if those were not tied to your “collection provider”? Would you still be using your “collection provider”? Are you a bit tired of the workflow you need to maintain for those things? Are you tired of thinking, "Where do I put this thing when something 'collectible” comes into your digital life?
I would like to have one system that collects them all and syncs seamlessly with the service that best reproduces the collection, but ultimately I want my collections under my sovereignty.
Do you?