How do you remember comments you read from Hacker News?

Question

I've realized that it's hard for me to remember many of the comments I have read on HN, or Lobste.rs.I can remember the articles and that are linked, but not the discussion about the articles. This sucks since the discussion adds nuance and background to the article that is helpful.Have other people noticed this, and if so, why do you think it happens? Is it a UI issue (maybe mental energy is wasted keeping track of where we are in the comment tree)? Or is it a cognitive issue (just pay more attention)?

weinzierl · Accepted Answer

I favourite them - as simple as that. It keeps things contained on HN and connected to HN and that's how I prefer it. Also I have them handy when I'm on the site and can look things up when writing my own comments. When I'm not on HN I don't need the favourites and should HN ever die I'll probably not need them anymore anyway. I think you can easily fetch them as JSON with the API should you want to have them offline. Only downside I can think off is if you want to remember a comment privately for some reason, but that never happened to me so far.

kirubakaran · Answer

My upvotes are automatically saved in Histre (which I built) and a few of my friends follow me so they see my upvotes https://histre.com/features/share-hackernews-upvotes/I use Histre to save and tag useful comments if I think I'll need to refer to them again.

croo · Answer

Usually I don't remember them because deep down I know don't need the information I just fed my stupid dopamine driven monkey brain with. I don't have to remember what a random person (or bot!?) said on the Internet about a random topic so it gets filtered in that manner and thrown away by this same brain. Sometime a message is so strong it gets through this filter, that is all.

rhabarba · Answer

I use bookmarks.

airbreather · Answer

anything interesting I save to Pocket