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Seven practical methods for keeping your own material findable. Each one is advice first, and notes honestly at the end where Shelf helps.
- How to organize screenshotsA system for thousands of unnamed images that doesn't depend on you naming them.
- How to organize bookmarksWhat to do with several thousand links you saved and never opened.
- How to build a visual libraryA reference collection you actually reuse, instead of a folder of pretty pictures.
- How to organize researchKeeping a research trail that survives the project it was gathered for.
- How to find something you saved months agoA retrieval method for when you have no keyword, only a feeling.
- How to build a visual second brainThe second-brain idea, minus the maintenance that makes most people quit.
- How to organize design inspirationKeeping references in a way that survives the gap between saving and needing.
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This is intentional. Shelf is built around a local-first, privacy-focused philosophy. An automatic updater requires additional background processes, network connections, update infrastructure, and another system with permission to modify the app. We prefer to keep Shelf’s network footprint and background activity as small as possible.
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