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Pocket 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
by segphault 3y ago
Pocket 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?
- xeromal 3y agoOne is a queue. Another is a directory. Pocket articles are more conceptually one-and-done. I don't have time to read this now, so I put on the queue to read tomorrow morning. Not, I found this cool article I plan to reread many times over several years.
- gxqoz 3y agoThis is absolutely an advertised feature of Pocket and it's frustrating they're so inept in supporting this.
- gloryjulio 3y agoBut can't u just use one of the bookmark folder as a queue?
- xeromal 3y agoTotally
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- mostlylurks 3y agoWith the exception of syncing the list between devices (a feature I personally can't imagine myself needing or wanting, though I can definitely see why others would), these things are basically what tabs are for. You open things up in tabs to read them later, and you can also search tabs (a feature supported by firefox, at least, not sure about other browsers) and categorize them (their order and grouping into separate windows). Tabs also have the benefit of being extremely convenient, whereas there's a whole lot more friction involved in using any other option, like bookmarks, or things like pocket.
- jasaldivara 3y agoMaybe if you have big amounts of RAM and never turn off your computer nor close your browser. I like being able to read my bookmarks a week, or even a month later.
- mostlylurks 3y ago> Maybe if you have big amounts of RAM Browsers these days have settings which automatically unload tabs to make sure you don't run out of RAM. I personally don't run into issues with 16GB of RAM, so I don't have those settings enabled. > and never turn off your computer nor close your browser. I like being able to read my bookmarks a week, or even a month later. Browsers allow persisting the set of windows and tabs you have open across sessions, so this isn't an issue. I probably have a few hundred tabs open at any given moment across a few subject-specific windows, some of those tabs several months old, and I close my browser and shut down my computer all the time. Firefox simply restores the windows and tabs when I open it, so it all works out just fine.
- Lammy 3y agohttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-discard/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...
- gxnxcxcx 3y agoabout:unloads