🔧 My new workflow of collecting news clips

Markdownload: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/markdownload/

I have recently started using Markdownload as a way to collect news articles locally.

1. Open a new browser window or tab group or workspace.
2. Read news in my RSS reader, skim through the news and open the desired news website in the browser.
3. Repeat step 2 until it's enough.
4. Right-click on the browser's context menu and select "Download all tabs as Markdown."

Then, new Markdown text files would appear the downloaded folder. The content is the core portions of those webpages. Most of the time, it works quite accurately. There might be some irrelevant information at the beginning or the en and would require manual trimming. Perhaps an extra refinement with local LLM would be interesting.

The main reason I'm doing this is that sometimes when I see something that might have an impact in the future, I find it difficult to locate the original news article later on. By saving news articles as Markdown files, I can then easily use grep to search for certain keywords and since there will be no irrelevant information in the search space, the result would be very accurate.

I've been doing this for about two weeks now and have collected 60 news articles. Perhaps in a few months I'll discover something new.