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Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

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Post by masylum »

mm263 wrote: post #57
masylum wrote: post #11

Hey, this is Pao, the guy building https://fika.bar . Fika is a place to save, discover and share content built upon 3 products: - A local-first bookmark manager (Works 100% offline) - A feed reader: With feed discovery from your bookmarks. - A blog/newsletter platform The only thing it currently does not have is e-reader integration yet. But you get the other 2 products bundled together which make a lot of sense.

Also, I don't seem to be able to login - stuck at "Syncing to this device."

Checking!

Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

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Post by masylum »

mm263 wrote: post #55
masylum wrote: post #11

Hey, this is Pao, the guy building https://fika.bar . Fika is a place to save, discover and share content built upon 3 products: - A local-first bookmark manager (Works 100% offline) - A feed reader: With feed discovery from your bookmarks. - A blog/newsletter platform The only thing it currently does not have is e-reader integration yet. But you get the other 2 products bundled together which make a lot of sense.

The link to your blog doesn't seem to work

Good catch!

Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

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Post by R0m41nJosh »

I have been building https://mozaic.link with a friend for a while. It's a bookmark manager with a funny UI. We wanted to make a product with it and get rich but we have no time and we suck at marketing. I use it everyday though.

BTW Pocket was nice because it saved articles so that you can read them offline with a distraction free experience (we don't do that).

Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

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Post by eviks »

crinkly wrote: post #100
eviks wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PDF is almost a non-digital format, so awful reading experience on devices with different screen sizes, no good content search or even basic copy&paste. And you get no tagging in this scheme. So a major downgrade.

Apart from the device size issue this is untrue.

Of course it is, these form just a tiny subset of well known issues of PDF.

Here is a simple illustration of a copy & paste fail from this very page:

From html: a single sentence

> Since mozilla announced the sunsetting of pocket, I started looking for alternatives, including building a light version for my personal use. But nothing came out of my research.

From PDF: a newline split of a single sentence after light because PDF is generally too dumb to use sentences for text

> Since mozilla announced the sunsetting of pocket, I started looking for alternatives, including building a light > version for my personal use. But nothing came out of my research.

Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

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Post by WithinReason »

nchapman wrote: post #77
sdrothrock wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does Folio actually copy the content (i.e. if the original article is removed, Folio still has it) or does it function as a collection of bookmarks that it changes the presentation of?

Yes, we copy the content. We store both the original HTML and a copy of the extracted text as markdown. The text is what is synced to your device.

Great! Is there an export feature? I'd like to read articles on my e-reader, ideally as epub.

Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

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Post by tiboll »

extr0pian wrote: post #5

Wallabag. I switched from Pocket to Wallabag years ago because I didn't like sponsored content and ads in Pocket. I originally started paying for it as a subscription directly from wallabag.it, but then I started self-hosting it. Wallabag has an option to import all of your articles from Pocket too. It's a fantastic service.

After some researches I ended up with Wallabag as well, hosted on wallabag.it. I've got a lot of things saved, sometimes quite long articles (I read a lot, but I save a lot more) The ePub export was a requirement for me since I moved to Kobo (originally for the Pocket compatibility) after old Pocket app on my 1st gen iPad Mini stopped working. I made some test to self host it but the epub export and the images caching was to much for my Synology NAS. I had some good results with a more powerful machine but I didn't want to keep it running 24/7. And finally the export works well on wallabag.it so I though the hosted version worth its price!

Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

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Post by crinkly »

eviks wrote: post #104
crinkly wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apart from the device size issue this is untrue.

Of course it is, these form just a tiny subset of well known issues of PDF. Here is a simple illustration of a copy & paste fail from this very page: From html: a single sentence > Since mozilla announced the sunsetting of pocket, I started looking for alternatives, including building a light version for my personal use. But nothing came out of my research. From PDF: a newline split of a single sentence after light b…

Literally works fine here.

"volume needs to be the lowest possible. A minimisation problem needs two variables only and we have four in this case. However the volume and area formulas can be substituted into each other to give volume in terms of width."

Cut and pasted from three lines of a PDF I am authoring right now.

Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

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Post by eviks »

crinkly wrote: post #107
eviks wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course it is, these form just a tiny subset of well known issues of PDF. Here is a simple illustration of a copy & paste fail from this very page: From html: a single sentence > Since mozilla announced the sunsetting of pocket, I started looking for alternatives, including building a light version for my personal use. But nothing came out of my research. From PDF: a newline split of a single sentence after light b…

Literally works fine here. "volume needs to be the lowest possible. A minimisation problem needs two variables only and we have four in this case. However the volume and area formulas can be substituted into each other to give volume in terms of width." Cut and pasted from three lines of a PDF I am authoring right now.

> Cut and pasted from three lines of a PDF I am authoring right now.

Literally a different use case. Do the steps from your actual workflow that I commented on instead of trying to find a variant where it works!

Maybe the app you use adds special PDF clutches to make a paragraph a paragraph.

Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

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Post by inbalboa »

nchapman wrote: post #71

I’ve been working on my own Pocket replacement for the past few months. I was the head of product at Pocket in 2018/19, and ever since I left, I’ve had this itch to build my own version. Mozilla shutting it down finally gave me the excuse I needed. https://savewithfolio.com/ Folio lets you save articles from anywhere, has a lovely reading view, lets you listen to articles with some really nice text-to-speech voices,…

Do you have an API?

Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

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Post by inbalboa »

extr0pian wrote: post #5

Wallabag. I switched from Pocket to Wallabag years ago because I didn't like sponsored content and ads in Pocket. I originally started paying for it as a subscription directly from wallabag.it, but then I started self-hosting it. Wallabag has an option to import all of your articles from Pocket too. It's a fantastic service.

also use Wallabag (wallabag.it), but it's android app is so basic and feels outdated
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