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I used to do the same and that turned in to turning tabs in to bookmarks, then i ended up with soooo many bookmarks.. then I discovered pocket. But within a yea

by 2wrist 5y ago

I used to do the same and that turned in to turning tabs in to bookmarks, then i ended up with soooo many bookmarks.. then I discovered pocket. But within a year I had so many unread items, they even informed I was in the top 3% of users... Fuck.

alan-hn 5y ago
Maybe Pocket should have a leaderboard
- MezzoDelCammin 5y ago
  ideally with links to HN profiles ;-)
- 2wrist 5y ago
  hahaha that would be scary...
- BeefWellington 5y ago
  And achievements. This could be a hilarious product idea: adding a leaderboard and achievements to any arbitrary site. I'm sure someone has already done it.
  - post-it 5y ago
    In a slightly better timeline, there's an "everything can have a leaderboard" craze instead of an "everything can be crypto" craze.
    - alan-hn 5y ago
      There's still time, friends
    - CRConrad 5y ago
      And in a VASTLY better timeline, there's an "everything can have a leaderboard" craze instead of an "everything must have ads" craze.
em-bee 5y ago
that's why i don't just bookmark everything. it also takes more effort to open a bookmark than to switch to a tab. instead i try to use bookmarks for the really important things.
MasterScrat 5y ago
I do the same, but then I take an iPad with me for long plane/boat trips with all the articles saved for offline reading. Between the time spent in waiting rooms and actual travel time you can actually go through quite a lot of material (of course, pandemic didn't help with this strategy).
- malshe 5y ago
  I am looking for an iPad app to read the articles offline as I’m traveling again now. Do you mind sharing what app you use for this?
  - MasterScrat 5y ago
    I use Pocket! https://help.getpocket.com/article/1136-using-pocket-offline https://help.getpocket.com/article/1136-using-pocket-offline
    - malshe 5y ago
      Thanks
  - sandman008 5y ago
    You could also look at raindrop.io though unsure of iOS experience on it
merely-unlikely 5y ago
I save articles that look interesting but aren't critical to Pocket. I have a daily script that clears anything more than 2 weeks old. Either stuff gets read or it gets forgotten. I do something similar with reminders - I schedule everything instead of keeping lists. That way I get reminded in a more digestible fashion and often by the time the reminder comes up, it's no longer relevant anyway. Makes clearing the list more organic and less cumbersome.
deckard1 5y ago
> then i ended up with soooo many bookmarks yep. I've been thinking about this problem for some time now. With Google, and especially Slack, what I've discovered is resurfacing is more important than organization. You have some tiny thread of memory than you want to input into a system and have that system bring back the webpages and context. This is what Slack gets right. We have Slack, we have Google, but we do not have anything that is personal. A personal search engine. Something like macOS Spotlight, but more contextual. In Slack you can find individual messages which match a pattern, but you can also expand to see the entire context of that message with date and time. The bookmarks in Chrome do not even tell you the date/time you added them. That's such a basic thing that is missing. The ability to create a "view" of your bookmarks organized chronologically would be another useful tool. In addition: what other sites were you looking at around that time? What city were you in? What was the weather in that city at that time? Sounds silly, but this sort of info can jog your memory. The browser extends into the global but we have not yet discovered that the browser should extend the other way, into the personal. On one side we should have Chrome, on the other end should be Joplin or Obsidian.

by 2wrist 5y ago

alan-hn 5y ago

Maybe Pocket should have a leaderboard

MezzoDelCammin 5y ago
ideally with links to HN profiles ;-)
2wrist 5y ago
hahaha that would be scary...
BeefWellington 5y ago
And achievements. This could be a hilarious product idea: adding a leaderboard and achievements to any arbitrary site. I'm sure someone has already done it.
- post-it 5y ago
  In a slightly better timeline, there's an "everything can have a leaderboard" craze instead of an "everything can be crypto" craze.
  - alan-hn 5y ago
    There's still time, friends
  - CRConrad 5y ago
    And in a VASTLY better timeline, there's an "everything can have a leaderboard" craze instead of an "everything must have ads" craze.

em-bee 5y ago

that's why i don't just bookmark everything. it also takes more effort to open a bookmark than to switch to a tab. instead i try to use bookmarks for the really important things.

MasterScrat 5y ago

I do the same, but then I take an iPad with me for long plane/boat trips with all the articles saved for offline reading. Between the time spent in waiting rooms and actual travel time you can actually go through quite a lot of material (of course, pandemic didn't help with this strategy).

malshe 5y ago
I am looking for an iPad app to read the articles offline as I’m traveling again now. Do you mind sharing what app you use for this?
- MasterScrat 5y ago
  I use Pocket! https://help.getpocket.com/article/1136-using-pocket-offline https://help.getpocket.com/article/1136-using-pocket-offline
  - malshe 5y ago
    Thanks
- sandman008 5y ago
  You could also look at raindrop.io though unsure of iOS experience on it

merely-unlikely 5y ago

I save articles that look interesting but aren't critical to Pocket. I have a daily script that clears anything more than 2 weeks old. Either stuff gets read or it gets forgotten. I do something similar with reminders - I schedule everything instead of keeping lists. That way I get reminded in a more digestible fashion and often by the time the reminder comes up, it's no longer relevant anyway. Makes clearing the list more organic and less cumbersome.

deckard1 5y ago

> then i ended up with soooo many bookmarks yep. I've been thinking about this problem for some time now. With Google, and especially Slack, what I've discovered is resurfacing is more important than organization. You have some tiny thread of memory than you want to input into a system and have that system bring back the webpages and context. This is what Slack gets right. We have Slack, we have Google, but we do not have anything that is personal. A personal search engine. Something like macOS Spotlight, but more contextual. In Slack you can find individual messages which match a pattern, but you can also expand to see the entire context of that message with date and time. The bookmarks in Chrome do not even tell you the date/time you added them. That's such a basic thing that is missing. The ability to create a "view" of your bookmarks organized chronologically would be another useful tool. In addition: what other sites were you looking at around that time? What city were you in? What was the weather in that city at that time? Sounds silly, but this sort of info can jog your memory. The browser extends into the global but we have not yet discovered that the browser should extend the other way, into the personal. On one side we should have Chrome, on the other end should be Joplin or Obsidian.