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I'm printing out websites - and why you might want to do it too

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I'm printing out websites - and why you might want to do it too

Published on Saturday, April 1, 2023

Photo by Mufid Majnun on Unsplash

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I'm printing out websites on purpose.

What may sound like an April Fool's joke is meant seriously.

But I'm not printing them on paper but as PDF files and here's why:

If you're following me on Twitter or Mastodon, you might have noticed that I'm using Logseq as a "second brain".

Logseq comes with a ton of useful features and one of them are PDF annotations.

Here's the official video demoing the feature:

Logseq to me by far is the most comfortable way to annotate websites across multiple computers and integrate them with my existing knowledge graph - if you print them to PDF first.

Another win of this method: I won't loose the information if the website with the post goes dark at some point in time...

Open an arbitrary blog post or article you want to annotate:

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Next, I'm activating Firefox Reader mode:

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Then, I'm calling the Print dialog and disable printing headers and footers:

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And finally, I can just drag and drop the PDF file into my Logseq page created for this post and start highlighting and annotating.

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How do you annotate and highlight websites?


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