cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/5364920
just for good measures
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The original was posted on /r/memes by /u/brylex1 on 2025-03-10 03:01:06+00:00.
In the immediate future, the screenshot archive becomes unmanageable.
In the long term future, it becomes the modern equivalent of what your parents and grandparents got out of keeping a scrapbook or photo album.
I’ve been chronically online since 1997. Going through a scrap folder which I held onto when decommissioning an old PC or phone brings back all kinds of memories. I even find that noting the changes in my meme taste can be really useful for identifying points where I’ve grown as a person. That, in turn, leads to reprocessing old memories and identifying ways in which I brought something to the table which facilitated some of my own bad experiences. That helps me heal.
Jokes on you, I just keep tab groups on my phone. Only 3 groups of 500 tabs are hanging out and it’s it’s own overwhelming problem…
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
F u four calling me out like that but also thank you for validating my feelings.
what’s worse is when it’s a store you wanna check out but don’t want the advertisement to get credit, and when you finally DO remember to check it out, the store is gone cause it was a scam all along
I leave a bunch of of tabs on my phone web browser until i can’t take anymore (around 15/20 tabs) then i organize everything with bookmarks so i can, maybe, some day, who knows, if i feel like it and the planets align, i might take a look on them, just maybe
I know that in the future AI will scour my screenshot folder and group everything neatly, add tags even.
Hope is a wonderful drug
Also maybe we will be able to prompt our pc with a local open source model “pick all science related screenshots and group by the topic” - sure 1344 results, do you want to see them?, no list all the topics, - astronomy(34), quantum(23), ethnology(10)
I don’t see whats stopping you from doing exactly that ten years ago. What you describe it just tag searching. Plenty of software exists to do that.
You’re missing the point that actually requires tagging and organization to begin with.
The difference they are talking about is automatic parsing and natural language understanding of their screenshots and other data.
Newer Pixel phones can do this already, and I quite like it. Basically a local model on the device writes a text description for each screenshot, and you can sort/categorize them based on that. It will refuse to describe particularly spicy screenshots (either political or graphic), but perhaps that’s a good thing.
You do need to sell your soul to the corpo overlords though and join the Google ecosystem, which I continue to have mixed feelings about.
I wonder if there is a way to do this on a degoogled graphene OS installed pixel phone.
BTW, I’m looking for a source of a cheap pixel 6 or newer phone for privacy purposes (to install graphene OS on), I’m a disabled activist on a fixed income so it’s hard to afford stuff like that most of the time but at the same time it’s becoming more and more important to take measures like that for privacy, if anyone is interested in a trade or otherwise has a good idea for how I can get one, please let me know.
I bought a pixel second hand and did this, it’s easy to do even for a non techy person. You might say which country you’re in, I could give some ideas but I’m in england so they might not work for you.
Not just screenshots. I have literally hundred thousand photos of which about 50% are neatly in the correct folders and the rest are a complete mess that I don’t even want to look at. If I spent like 5 minutes each day organizing them I’d sort it out in no time but I just can’t get myself doing it.
This is my non - organisation system too… For everything which I don’t have to keep decently for some external purpose. Even though I also love to organise stuff ha.
I did manage to get everything onto a 2TB harddrive, so now I have decades of irregularly organised chaos (more or less, I lost some of it several times through not backing up) all in one place - yay!
Also, despite all intentions to the contrary, I’m doing exactly the same thing with my newer devices lol (that’s the hollow laughter of despair).
Hoarder app is great for this
I’ve used Wallabag forever. Wish I could import it all to Hoarder. It looks neat, I bookmarked it a few weeks ago.
You might be able to bulk import links
Oo looks like I can now and use it with ollama too. Wicked. Will take a look later, cheers.
Stop getting personal
Stop attacking me!
Then you forget or misremember the name of the site or idea, and it’s just lost in a sea of broken dreams.
Did it unconsciously.
Fortunately the web ui doesn’t tell me how many bookmarks I have.
I go a step further and (browser) bookmark each post I save. All of the bookmarks are sorted by Comments vs Post, and Community. This means I can ensure that I can search by the title of the post in my bookmarks.
Wait before you hear of OCD :D
Wait until you hear about OCD ADHD combined. I recommend everyone use https://obsidian.md/. It’s my trapper keeper and I’ve managed to funnel everything into it into their own little boxes in a rather automated fashion… Combine that with a little self hosting and you’ve got an orchestra for the chaos gremlin that you can drop and pick up again as many times as you want. I regularly mix up my toys and tools to keep it interesting as long as they funnel into obsidian eventually. I literally have about 200 obsidian extensions and everything syncs across network and devices lol.
With enough ADHD individuals’ Obsidian notes combined, we will be able to release a book based on the summarised self help articles. “Survive
ADHD, OCDAnything, the book.”, the first page will feature an FAQ, and a link to the audiobook version.I thought to myself. This looks neat, I’ll check it out. Went to the page, then to the App Store to install it. Already had it. Doh!!
I just screenshotted this.
