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I declared Instapaper bankruptcy last month when I moved to Pocket. I used to add about 10 links a day to Instapaper thinking that one day I would come around t

I declared Instapaper bankruptcy last month when I moved to Pocket. I used to add about 10 links a day to Instapaper thinking that one day I would come around to reading them all. Lol, never going to happen. I moved to Pocket because my Kobo Elipsa has integration with it. But because of this, my filter to adding to Pocket is now "Will I read this link on my Elipsa". If not, why add to it in the first place. So after a month, I've only got about 10 articles in my Pocket account, all having been read on my Elipsa.

ftyhbhyjnjk 4y ago
On an unrelated note, try raindrop.io. I "was" a pocket customer for 4+ years until I discovered raindrop.io. Now I don't want to go back to pocket again. Do give raindrop.io a try. Fyi, it does NOT have "For You" recommendations.
- miguelrochefort 4y ago
  I probably have over 10,000 items in Pocket. I say probably because I never actually open the app.
dredmorbius 4y ago
Fortunately for you, you'll discover soon enough that Pocket is utterly useless for accessing/reading the contents you've saved. It's Mozilla's Giant Cloud Recycle Bin.
- imtringued 4y ago
  I tried it but it doesn't even work with pdfs. Why bother?
  - dredmorbius 4y ago
    Trust me, I'm a strong critic: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_it_gets_worse_the_more_you_use_it/ https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_... That said: it manages a fair bit of web content. Tags can be added. The URLs and tags can be exported. To that end, it is not entirely useless. Only very nearly so.
  - alfiedotwtf 4y ago
    Neither does Instapaper. But why would I use Pocket to read a PDF on my ebook reader, when I could just download the PDF on my phone, upload it to Dropbox, and then instantly read it on my ebook reader from there
    - dredmorbius 4y ago
      My view is: why have an article management system that's limited to only a single document format? Pocket provides a place to archive and tag or organise content. What format that content is in ... I could care less. For PDFs, my main problem is in organising metadata. Especially on a tablet, where despite having ample storage, the only real organisation schemes I can come up with are expressive filenames (which are a pain to apply) and directory-based storage. For both, my best way of accomplishing this is through a Linux environment such as Termux, and an external keyboard. Tools such as Calibre or Zotero would be handy. Niether has a full-featured tablet port.
- alfiedotwtf 4y ago
  Weird. To be honest, I've found it to be really nice. I'm also happy that I've finally found a way to give Mozilla money
  - dredmorbius 4y ago
    My principle gripes: - I cannot search for tags. - I cannot select tags in the Android client. Most especially, if I'm reading an article and want to cross-reference similarly-tagged articles, because that's what I'm interested in right now, I cannot. - I cannot search by multiple tags simultaneously. - I cannot readily edit tags in the Android client. For this and most other tag operations, the best thing to do is to pull up the Web client, manually enter the tag in the URL, then use the (relatively-recently-added) edit-tag function (usually to fix typos, etc.) - The <backspace> key does not function on Android. It is not possible to use backspace to edit errors when entering tags. - Suggested tag order changed earlier this year from a highly-weighted most-recently-used to collate order. Meaning when tagging a set of similar articles, input/entryis far more cumbersome. - "Flip mode" pagination is fragile and broken. I'd prefer a pagination far more like Einkbro using touch zones rather than gestures. - I cannot create or export a list of articles to export to myself or share with co-workers, friends, etc., of interest. Pocket could be an excellent references generator. It is not. - There's no print-to-PDF feature from the Android app. (Einkbro's print-to-Epub is vastly more useful in this regard, as I've posted recently to HN.) Pocket has added a search-in-page feature. That only took years. Still, it's forward progress. But given that my gripes list (see up-thread) is five years old, that's pitifully little to show for.

ftyhbhyjnjk 4y ago

On an unrelated note, try raindrop.io. I "was" a pocket customer for 4+ years until I discovered raindrop.io. Now I don't want to go back to pocket again. Do give raindrop.io a try. Fyi, it does NOT have "For You" recommendations.

miguelrochefort 4y ago
I probably have over 10,000 items in Pocket. I say probably because I never actually open the app.

dredmorbius 4y ago

Fortunately for you, you'll discover soon enough that Pocket is utterly useless for accessing/reading the contents you've saved. It's Mozilla's Giant Cloud Recycle Bin.

imtringued 4y ago
I tried it but it doesn't even work with pdfs. Why bother?
- dredmorbius 4y ago
  Trust me, I'm a strong critic: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_it_gets_worse_the_more_you_use_it/ https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_... That said: it manages a fair bit of web content. Tags can be added. The URLs and tags can be exported. To that end, it is not entirely useless. Only very nearly so.
- alfiedotwtf 4y ago
  Neither does Instapaper. But why would I use Pocket to read a PDF on my ebook reader, when I could just download the PDF on my phone, upload it to Dropbox, and then instantly read it on my ebook reader from there
  - dredmorbius 4y ago
    My view is: why have an article management system that's limited to only a single document format? Pocket provides a place to archive and tag or organise content. What format that content is in ... I could care less. For PDFs, my main problem is in organising metadata. Especially on a tablet, where despite having ample storage, the only real organisation schemes I can come up with are expressive filenames (which are a pain to apply) and directory-based storage. For both, my best way of accomplishing this is through a Linux environment such as Termux, and an external keyboard. Tools such as Calibre or Zotero would be handy. Niether has a full-featured tablet port.
alfiedotwtf 4y ago
Weird. To be honest, I've found it to be really nice. I'm also happy that I've finally found a way to give Mozilla money
- dredmorbius 4y ago
  My principle gripes: - I cannot search for tags. - I cannot select tags in the Android client. Most especially, if I'm reading an article and want to cross-reference similarly-tagged articles, because that's what I'm interested in right now, I cannot. - I cannot search by multiple tags simultaneously. - I cannot readily edit tags in the Android client. For this and most other tag operations, the best thing to do is to pull up the Web client, manually enter the tag in the URL, then use the (relatively-recently-added) edit-tag function (usually to fix typos, etc.) - The <backspace> key does not function on Android. It is not possible to use backspace to edit errors when entering tags. - Suggested tag order changed earlier this year from a highly-weighted most-recently-used to collate order. Meaning when tagging a set of similar articles, input/entryis far more cumbersome. - "Flip mode" pagination is fragile and broken. I'd prefer a pagination far more like Einkbro using touch zones rather than gestures. - I cannot create or export a list of articles to export to myself or share with co-workers, friends, etc., of interest. Pocket could be an excellent references generator. It is not. - There's no print-to-PDF feature from the Android app. (Einkbro's print-to-Epub is vastly more useful in this regard, as I've posted recently to HN.) Pocket has added a search-in-page feature. That only took years. Still, it's forward progress. But given that my gripes list (see up-thread) is five years old, that's pitifully little to show for.