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Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
- datavirtue 3y agoIs this guy going on a rant because Pocket isn't a professional research tool?
- abraham 3y agoThis appears to be from 2017.
- djbusby 3y agoThe Pocket thing was when I started to feel Mozilla lost their way. For a while I tried to maintain a patch that completely removed it. But, that's not fun. The Idea of Pocket is great - seems everyone needs a personal-knowledge-base. And the archival feature was/is cool (I added the same to my own PKB). And Pocket for organizing, messy like the article says. I do tagging and SQLite FTS - works a treat.
- zagrebian 3y ago> everyone needs a personal-knowledge-base What is that? Do I need it?
- simonw 3y agoYes. You need notes that you can search through, and useful information that you've collected. Otherwise you're limited by what you can hold in your head - and as you get older and take on more ambitious work you'll find that's a pretty big restriction. My version of that is spread out across way too many places now - it's mainly https://til.simonwillison.net/ https://til.simonwillison.net/ and https://simonwillison.net/ https://simonwillison.net/ for published notes, 700+ public GitHub repositories for code and issue notes, 100+ private repositories for private code and private issue notes, a Pocket account with 8700 items in it, plus the contents of my 15+ year old Dropbox folder structure, an old Evernote dump and a continually growing S3 bucket of larger things. I tried to tie it all together with a unified search engine, but that needs some more work: https://simonwillison.net/2020/Nov/14/personal-data-warehouses/ https://simonwillison.net/2020/Nov/14/personal-data-warehous...
- serf 3y agoi'm with you as long as -- by design -- it consists of the plainest of plain text, and will migrate with me along my life. otherwise all the shine and chrome in the world won't make it superior to a filing cabinet and some free time. that's the difficulty point for all of these personal PIM type tools, they all have their own biased view on things like file format and 'touchability' of stored data in the (unannounced) hopes of trapping a captive audience; no good. Open standards, open formats, and a revenue stream that isn't user-hostile -- then i'm in.
- fiddlerwoaroof 3y agoThe only revenue stream that isn’t user-hostile is subscriptions. And people generally hate that: imo, the web ended up ad-supported because users did not want to pay every website they used directly and it remains ad-supported because users continue to reject the viable alternatives (subscriptions, services like Blendle, some micropayment scheme).
- simonw 3y agoYeah, subscriptions is tough for this because it needs to be a solution which lasts a lifetime - it's hard to confidently subscribe to something that I may end up paying for decades, especially if it may turn out not to be the right solution in the long-run.
- fiddlerwoaroof 3y agoI think some combination of a subscription and source escrow would be ideal here: if the service goes under, some third-party releases the source to subscribed customers.
- BigElephant 3y agoWhy only plain text? Images have a lot of value
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- djbusby 3y ago> What is that? For me it's a web-app tied to a PG database. But I started on SQLite. And it keeps notes, links (tagged), archive-page, put my own notes on it, etc. Many folk use things like Evernote, Pocket, Notion, DokuWiki, etc for their "stuff".
- ekianjo 3y agoAlso vimwiki
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- jck 3y agoI remember that mozilla promised to open source the pocket backend and that went nowhere
- dredmorbius 3y agoThere is an iOS app repo, though none for Android that I can find: <https://github.com/Pocket/pocket-ios https://github.com/Pocket/pocket-ios> And nothing server-side either, which I suspect is what you're referring to.
- jacquesm 3y agoPocket could have been the 'Memex', but they decided to do it server side, possibly as a way to get people to start using Mozilla/FireFox accounts. If it had been local with an email backend (IMAP or so) that would have been great.
- DropInIn 3y agoThe times I might use pocket I almost always definitively prefer using httrack.... And the rest I just save a copy of the site to a file....
- CyanBird 3y agoInstead of pocket I just have a personal discord server where I organize all the neat links that I find online, I write a short intro or header and some keywords Far easier to search and more instantly readable than pocket is
- Gualdrapo 3y agoI use raindrop.io for long-term "bookmarks", the saved feature from Feedly for mid-term, and plain text file(s) for short term/project-specific stuff
- dredmorbius 3y agoOne fallback I've considered in all seriousness is simply an email address to which I submit articles, and access through a full-featured email tool such as mutt. The main challenge there is that it's difficult to reorganise information once it's captured, but search tools, the ability to reply to threads, and the automatic capture of basic metadata (sender, subject, date) are useful. Mutt specifically has a highly robust threading algorithm. I'm not sure what happens if this becomes rentrant, that is, a given child node might have multiple parents from different threads. Mutt as given presumes that any given parent reference (indicated through headers) is either parent to, or a child of, other referenced emails. I'm picturing a web rather than a tree. Email is also extensible with regard to headers, and with mutt it's trivial to write hooks and tools to work with those. And once email is stored in a standard format (say, maildir), there are other tools such as mh which can operate on the corpus at the shell level.
- sdf3221a 3y agoBig fan of pocket, you can save what you want and load it into your rss feed reader to catch up on things.
- MollyRealized 3y agoFWIW, for my current methodology, I capture the text - often from a Tranquility Reader version of the page - and then apply a macro in Notepad++ that removes 90% of the remaining junk. Then save it to a text file.
- sp332 3y agoWhat's your Notepad++ macro?
- perryizgr8 3y agoMy biggest software related wish is to have notepad++ on macos. It's far and away better than anything else.
- tra3 3y agoThat's really neat. Is there a way to script Firefox to do this headless and store an html file (with the single file extension)?
- timetraveller26 3y agoSaving this for later on Pocket, hopefully it won't get lost in my ever growing list of links that I will get to categorize and maybe even read some day.
- segphault 3y agoPocket isn’t a bookmark database, it is a tool for saving things to read later. The user interface is primarily built for reading, not organizing. I use Pocket extensively for reading, but I use Raindrop separately for organizing and managing content that I want to archive for future access with proper search, filtering, and categorization. To me, these apps serve separate functions and need different user interfaces for their respective purposes. Pocket isn’t really trying to be both things, and it seems odd to fault it for not being good at what it isn’t designed to do.
- cocodill 3y agoby saving things for later you mean that a site copy is stored somewhere, so you could find it again years later?
- balder1991 3y agoThe paid version does this. It keeps the text even if the original article was removed.
- mintplant 3y agoMore like: this looks a good article, but I'd rather read it over morning tea, so I'll save it to Pocket for later (on the order of days to weeks).
- gloryjulio 3y agoI don't understand. How is that different from bookmarks?
- tacoman 3y agoMy use case for Pocket is completely different from the author’s. I use it every day to get web content onto a Kobo ereader. It strips ads and often gets stuff behind paywalls. My family shares the same pocket account and we often end up discussing things that get synced to all the kobos in the house. This functionality is so useful and seems like a well kept secret. If it went away I’d really be upset.
- LegitShady 3y agosomeone from Mozilla and Kobo should be reading this - you just came up with a reason to use Pocket which is the whole thing they were missing.
- idontwantthis 3y agoSame here with Onyx.
- dredmorbius 3y agoFWIW, my principle use of Pocket is on an Onyx BOOX device. (Original author.)
- dade_ 3y agoI love ereading my Pocket articles in colour!
- nicbou 3y agoI used it to read articles offline on my iPad. It worked maybe 50% of the time. Now I use instapaper.
- dade_ 3y agoFirefox is breaking Kobo functionality in August. https://www.theverge.com/23778208/kobo-pocket-ebook-reader-integration-ending https://www.theverge.com/23778208/kobo-pocket-ebook-reader-i... Kobo can potentially fix it, but the short notice and breaking important functionality in one of their revenue generating products/services adds to my pessimism about Mozilla’s leadership, which is already very pessimistic. Another example, look how much better Thunderbird is doing outside of Mozilla. Donations have more than doubled, but the product has a user centered roadmap, so imagine that. https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving-our-2022-financial-report/ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving...
- SanjayMehta 3y agoRe: tags > It takes me 45 seconds just to scroll from the top of the list to the end on the Android app. There's the problem with over classification. Having had the same problem, I've reduced the tags to around 10 which is also a bit too much. Sometimes I think 3 should be enough: low, medium and high priority.
- gxqoz 3y agoI've long had issues on Android where lists that should effectively be infinite scrolls instead have a cache of maybe 20 items and they just repeat as you scroll.
- dredmorbius 3y agoI'd be curious what those tags are, and how you use them.
- NotYourLawyer 3y agoThis is the first person I’ve ever heard of who uses Pocket.
- ChrisArchitect 3y ago(2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19763106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19763106
- darkteflon 3y agoI’ve tried all the third party services for archiving interesting things over the years but nothing beats saving everything to your local filesystem using [SingleFile](https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile) and using a full-text search frontend over the directory (something like Houdahspot, for example). SingleFile even has an iOS extension (and easySearch is very nice for iOS search - although not quite as nice as a desktop experience, owing to iOS limitations).
- tra3 3y agoThis is amazing, looks like there's a cli version too: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/single-file-cli https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/single-file-cli Presumably you can roll your own pocket now.
- wery 3y agoPinboard.in has been the perfect long term bookmark solution for me. It has simple tagging, the site is clean and easy to read, search is excellent. Have gladly paid year over year the 22 bucks for the full shebang.
- nvr219 3y agoI use Joplin for this
- dredmorbius 3y agoWhat benefits does this offer, and what's your use case This Joplin? <https://joplinapp.org/ https://joplinapp.org/> Please note that I'm specifically trying to capture online content --- full articles with references, URIs, etc. Not simply take notes.
- laurent123456 3y agoJoplin has a web clipper, so it can be used as "read it later" tool
- dade_ 3y agoWeb clipper works great on a desktop web browser and saves content, but this uses a browser plug-in and I can’t think of a practical way to save an article on a mobile device (phone or ipad). Also, pages are converted to Markdown, which is usually helpful, but rendering can be different and I recall running into occasional issues. Now for reading, the mobile app at the time (I think still true) renders in Markdown, not a weblike view, so the reading experience wasn’t great (no inline pictures, diagrams). However, for pulling content it worked very well.
- gxqoz 3y agoVery much agree that Pocket has gotten worse as I've used it over the years. It's so bad I've mostly moved to the much better Readwise (https://readwise.io/ https://readwise.io/). I'd be fully over if they actually supported a decent export (see below). It's sad because I'm probably in the 99th percentile of Pocket users in terms of usage and am happily paying them for Premium. I can't remember a significant improvement to Pocket in 2 years. Meanwhile, here's a non-exhaustive list of major, basic features that don't work: -Searching my own archive. This works maybe 75% of the time on articles I am 100% sure are in there. -Having a "permanent copy" of articles. This is Pocket's version of "full self driving," in that it doesn't mean what you think it means. -The ability to do any sort of advanced search. Pocket's web app has had a regression for exact match searching or multiple word searching for the longest time. I've raised numerous tickets with support and never get any meaningful responses. -Reliability of text to speech. There have been weeks-long spells where the better TTS voices just don't work. -Highlight exports or really any decent API interactions. I'm guessing that this software is just on life support now. I'd love to hear from someone actually at Mozilla on what's happening with this software. What's been the headcount on this project? Anyway, anyone on Hacker News is almost certainly served better by Readwise. Matter also looked promising but they didn't have an Android app so I never bought in.
- gxqoz 3y agoBy the way, I'm curious if there are any Pocket communities anywhere. Readwise, for instance, has an active Discord. I haven't been able to find anything for Pocket, which is perhaps telling.
- dredmorbius 3y agoI'd gone poking around on The Site That Is On Strike recently and discovered that both /r/pocket and /r/getpocket are either on strike or had been closed by admins, it's not clear which. That said, yes, curiously little community around Pocket.
- chrisdbanks 3y agoDitto. Recently moved from Pocket to Readwise and it's so much better. Readwise also supports spaced repetition for your highlights. Pocket could have been so much more. It could have surface articles I'd like using a Spotify style algorithm, it could have been so amazing, but Mozilla have killed it. I don't understand how they're so incompetent.
- nathants 3y agothe nice thing about text files on disk is that fzf can search them. on mobile, do something clever, or just email yourself .
- dredmorbius 3y agoOriginal author here. My six-year-old rant still mostly applies (there've been some improvements to tag editing, and there's now in-article search for the Android app), but Pocket still massively underdelivers, increasingly as one relies on it more. Most recently, I found I had to revert to a six-month-old version of the app in order to have both paginated navigation and to be able to open the "web view" in app ... which is where occasionally useful things such as tag editors live. Thread here: <https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/110680672833582286 https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/110680672833582286> That said ... I've largely given up on Pocket delivering what I would like to see, and if I can steer discussion here, I'd really like to know what Android-specific and/or e-ink tablet tools people have for managing large article repositories on device. I'm familiar with Zotero and Calibre, though both are desktop only, as well as Wallabag. Mendelay is a no-op given Elsevere's ownership. Anything I don't yet know of? My long-standing dream is to create KFC, Krell Functional Context, a document management tool that would include webfs and docfs components, inspired somewhat by Plan9OS and its P9. More on that in another "dreddit" rant: <https://web.archive.org/web/20200918215041/https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6bgowu/what_if_the_web_was_filesystemaccessible/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200918215041/https://old.reddi...>
- canadaduane 3y agoWas this a case of enshittification, per Cory Doctorow, or something else? [1] https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
- dredmorbius 3y agoGiven that enshittification is a power play by a dominant monopoly, and Pocket really doesn't seem to have any such power, I'd argu that it's not that. Plain old incompetence and/or failure to articulate product-market fit seems far more likely. Specifically as regards Pocket, there seem to be both a constant war against those using the tool, and/or who are inflicted with it (it's packaged/bundled with Firefox these days), neither of which do much to engender good relations. There's also what I see as a terribly misguided goal of trying to be a content recommendation engine, when I suspect that the problem most of us face isn't not having sufficient gobs of content shoveled at our faces, but in trying to make sense of that which we have acquired. Tools such as workflows, date-based tagging, multi-tag search (being able to search, say "german" and "comedy", rather than "german" and "comedy" separately --- basic AND logic), date-stamping articles (when they were input, when they were read, when they were highlighted / forwarded), the ability to compile article lists to send via email, metadata exports, the ability to directly edit metadata (automated tools often get the basics wrong: title, author, date, etc.). Export of articles to a durable document format --- saving a single article to a PDF or ePub document, or multiple documents, etc., etc. I've discussed most of this at length with Pocket's support for years, or rather, had some years ago and largely gave up the effort when there seemed to be no discernible movement in directions I'd encouraged.
- botanical 3y agoPocket could have been much more; it should be something between [omnivore.app](https://omnivore.app/ https://omnivore.app/) and Evernote's scrap-booking feature and then it would be immensely useful and bring people to Firefox. In its current form, it's a fancy bookmark maker that I don't ever use.
- WalterBright 3y agoBeing a silly person, my method of tagging things to archive and read later is stupid simple: I copy/paste/append the url to a text file, links.txt, along with a cut&paste of what its about. I can have multiples of those files. Search them with grep, whatever. I abandoned bookmarking tools long ago, because they reinvented (poorly) things like search, backups, etc., besides probably selling my bookmarks to some data aggregator.
- a1o 3y agoI have infinite tabs on notepad++ with the copy pasted links and some notable sentences from the links.
- ChuckMcM 3y agoFWIW, for this use case of creating curated sets of web pages, I find that Pinboard (https://pinboard.in https://pinboard.in) works really well for this case. When researching a project I'll tag pages with the project id and other relevant tags I'm using (like "sdr" or "camping-gear") and then the search function can instantly give me the list of pages I was looking at. There was a greasemonkey script that would take the search results page of Pinboard and open all the links in tabs in a new window but I have lost track of that at the moment.
- nicbou 3y agoPocket sucks. I used it to save articles to read them offline later. About half of the articles would not load offline for a reason or another. Sometimes they would download and I would look at them on my iPad, then they would be grayed out the second I turned WiFi off. A bunch of others would only load in web view, but without images. I have no idea of how a product can be so unreliable at its main job for so long. Instapaper has been rock solid so far.
- hamsterbase 3y agoMost "read it later" services save web pages on their servers, which cannot preserve paywalls, ad-free content, pages that require login or registration, and pages on a local network. Sharing why I decided to develop my own "read it later" software. 1. I have a habit of saving web pages I like, most of which are in MHTML format, some are saved as single-file HTML, and others are web archives saved on iOS. Altogether, I have accumulated thousands of them. 2. On my computer, I can preview them one by one, but I cannot search through them. So, I developed a Node.js service that parses web pages locally and stores them in an SQLite FTS for full-text search. I deployed the service using Docker on my NAS. 3. To enhance my learning experience, I also developed an annotation feature that allows me to make notes and annotations directly on the offline HTML. For good articles, I save them to read slowly over time. 4. Gradually, the app gained some users. Since they were not familiar with Docker, I wrapped it with Electron and developed a standalone desktop version. The desktop version and Docker version use CRDT for peer-to-peer synchronization. 5. Some users provided feedback that it was inconvenient to annotate after saving, so I developed an open-source browser extension. Users can now annotate web pages directly in the browser, and the annotations and snapshots are saved automatically. When visiting the page again in the future, previous annotations can be restored.
- Dr4kn 3y agoWhat is your program called?
- hamsterbase 3y agohttps://hamsterbase.com https://hamsterbase.com
- yawnxyz 3y agoI have a tiny service I put on Vercel that takes a bookmarklet I click on any page, get the URL, scrape the content I send to it through my browser, then save that to Airtable. I just realized I have like 12,000+ links I've saved (many of them from HN over the years), and Airtable is great for tagging, searching, etc!
- tra3 3y agoCan you share the service? Or share how you scrape the content? There's https://readability-bot.vercel.app https://readability-bot.vercel.app that is based on Firefox's reader mode, but it doesn't work very well.
- saltymimir 3y agoHere's a bookmarklet I've been using to submit HTML page data to a webhook endpoint: https://gist.github.com/theAJFM/c15535c0b7a994b126f41e127466d48a https://gist.github.com/theAJFM/c15535c0b7a994b126f41e127466... It extracts the page's title, the url, and even prompts you to give it some tags if you need some. You still need to host your own webhook to save it, but that too should be straightforward. Just use firefox's readability.js to strip the bloat elements and save it in your database. You could save it into Airtable like what OP's been doing, or even save it as a file in your cloud storage.
- oslac 3y agoThey don't let you know this, but you can just delete your "I read this later" backlog. You're not going to finish it, or read any of it.
- ishanjain28 3y agoMy pocket subscription renewal is coming up. After 8-10years of using pocket, I'll not be renewing it anymore. It was a decent product that just got worse over time and I just don't see them improving it anymore. Pinboard was a decent alternative but now that's not an option anymore. I'll be checking out the third newer option, raindrop I think.
- mackrevinack 3y agotheres wallabag as well. don't know how it compares but it also has a self hosted version if you are into that kind of thing
- dade_ 3y agoWallabag the server is ok, not amazing at rendering webpages to be readable, and article thumbnail view needs work. The browser plugins are the nightmare (Chrome comes to mind) You need to manually generate an API key and configure it in the browser. The process is very confusing, and too much work to configure on multiple machines with multiple browsers. The plug-ins are written by different developers, all open source as a hobby, so I while I think the effort is admirable and I hope it continues, it is still a beta experience.
- saltymimir 3y agoI decided to take a look at the redesigned mobile app after some time not using it. Can't believe how much worse it got. I don't appreciate their move towards "social" feed sure, but the reader has genuinely gotten worse. I remember that it used to have the options to adjust: - Line Height - Page Width - Text Alignment - Fonts beyond the defaults (for paid subscribers, which I am one). In the new app, it was all gone. Yet, I'm still paying the same premium price for it. The web app still has those perks, but it's probably because there hasn't been any update to it for the past 2 years or so. I haven't had any use for the app for some years now. Like what many say in this thread, it's not that hard to build a system that replaces it well enough. You just need to make it scrape links, turn them to markdown (personal preference), and index the entire content for FTS in SQLite. Thanks to the OP for reminding me to cancel my subscription. Now I just need to find a way to export my huge pocket archive before the subscription renews.
- mcpackieh 3y ago> The fact that I can't even say, not even approximately, how much material I've archived, is a profound signifier of the design failures and lack of consideration of use-cases. The folks at Pocket seem to have given absolutely no thought to how people might use their product, or benefit by self-directed use. (And it's not as if they've not heard: I've shared this complaint with them multiple times over the past two years.) This sounds like the sort of thing the Pocket engineer[s] probably understand and desire, but it doesn't fit the vision of some designer who vetoes it and tells the engineer[s] they don't know anything about design and that users don't want to be cluttered with extraneous information and features. Or maybe I'm just projecting my experiences.
- ortusdux 3y agoI'm a big fan of Waldenpond.press One a month they algorithmically select articles from your Pocket feed, have them printed and bound into a paperback book, and then ship them to you. It's $10-14/mo, depending on if you want 1, 2, or 4 hrs of content. You can tag items as 'wpmustprint' and they will be in your next edition. They use a url shortener to preserve links, and images, diagrams, and formatting are excellent.
- phendrenad2 3y agoA lot of things are like this. Like the Microsoft Edge developers apparently tested the case where you open dozens of tabs, but I often have open hundreds of tabs, all neatly stored in tab groups. Hey, I thought the unification of the tabs and bookmarks concept was cool! Until I tried it. It mostly works, until you try to rearrange the tabs, and then the scrollbar just jumps a random distance after a 500ms delay. Useless.
- pointlessone 3y agoI used to use Pocket. Like OP I had an extensive collection and experimented most of the described issues. For me the solution was to migrate to DEVONthink. It supports WebArchives for saving whole pages but also a few other formats that can preserve only content. Its search is great. It also has an iOS app. It’s web clip browser extension can save the page as you see it (most of the time) so can save pages behind a paywall or login. I don’t think there are apps for other platforms so probably not a solution for the OP.
- sofia_bytes 3y agoUsing pocket on its own is definitely not the way to go. I've got a rather convoluted setup chaining together different apps. Pocket is my default save - anything that looks remotely interesting gets sent there for me to browser at my leisure. If something I read looks like I'll want to revisit it, and I save the page to zotero, which is where most of the note-taking, tagging, and organisation takes place. Lastly I export my notes to LogSeq, which has zotero integration, so they can form part of my knowledge graph.
- diarrhea 3y agoStarting out with Pocket some years ago, I almost immediately learned to not rely on its reader feature. I haven’t used it since. It makes a hash out of basically everything, with image captions presented as normal body text, code snippets missing (this is a big one), images missing, quotes missing etc. Perhaps the respective article authors didn’t use html markup semantically correct, so a naive reader runs into trouble. But if such a Reader is part of your core business proposal and you are, by now, Mozilla, one would hope articles didn’t get butchered in reader view.
- _xnmw 3y agoWrong tool for the job. If you want to do serious research and archival, use something like DevonThink. I have 20 GB+ worth of stuff there (millions of items including 10 year email history) and it still does full-text search in under 500ms.
- marniewebb 3y agoI have an information triage process that ends with DEVONThink. I save bookmarks to drafts app, go through them when I have time. And if they are worth it, I save then in DEVONThink where I go through and mark them up.
- mnot 3y agoDEVONThink rocks.
- DrBurrito 3y agoWhat works for me is Zotero. It is the best to capture paywalled content (at least in desktop), and I can still capture and read things on mobile. I do use Pocket mainly to sync with my ereader.
- renegat0x0 3y agoSome time ago I decided to write my own program to manage my links [1]. I don't want to sign up anywhere. I don't want algorithms and suggestions. My app is on LAN network. I can add links, download data, search, add tags, highlight. Some things do not work. It is work in progress. I am not a web dev so it is bare bones. I do not use JavaScript, as I hate it. It uses Django and celery. Once a day I make my bookmarks public [2]. I am still learning. I just wanted to say you do not have to rely on anything to host a link aggregation software. [1] https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive [2] https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database
- podgietaru 3y agoPocket recently changed their iOS app which sent me on a journey to finally get rid of it. I had really bought into pocket. I paid for the extra reading features and fonts, and I bought a kobo Clara specifically to use pocket. I built a proxy to use omnivore (https://omnivore.app https://omnivore.app), an open source alternative on my Kobo ereader. https://github.com/Podginator/KoboOmnivoreConverter https://github.com/Podginator/KoboOmnivoreConverter I have used pocket for over a decade. They finally broke the camels back. Why a company would completely gut the reading features, the primary reason for the apps existence, is a mystery to me.
- DayDollar 3y agoI wonder if it wouldnt make more sense to just train a Commentator Neural Net with the pages you collect. It then can "remind" you of similar pages you have seen before, directly in the page, with little floating comments like "..skip..." "..contradicts.. http:/link/x/y/z " "..actual paper link.." "..paper is p-hacked shovelware.." "..authors reputation.." It could be trained to become your personal pre-reading assistant, similar to information accumulators and pre-evaluators in governments agencies or company hqs.
- sgtnasty 3y agoI have been using [ArchiveBox](https://archivebox.io https://archivebox.io) with good success, but it can be a bit daunting to set up.