Want to read this article later? Maybe you should just print it out | Oliver Burkeman

It's becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of online reading material. That's why physical print-outs sometimes trump a digital copies

I've spent many, many hours - I'm sure most people would say too many hours - devising geeky personal systems for managing information in the digital era. For example, I've reached certain conclusions about how to deal with email overload; how to manage your to-do list; or how to resist the distractions of social media. And fortunately, because I'm a journalist, I have an excuse to tell you about them, whereas otherwise I'd just be that appallingly tedious guy at social events who won't stop telling you about his favorite lifehacks. (To be clear, I am also that guy, but this needn't concern us here.)

Still, there's one big challenge I've never been able to master: how to keep track of all the interesting reading-matter I encounter online, or in ebooks, and then how to store and usefully refer to the notes I make on it. If you've had 27 tabs open in Chrome for the last four months, or 322 bookmarks in Firefox, or if you habitually highlight passages on your Kindle then promptly forget all about them, you'll know what I mean.