I use rss feeds + a rss reader.
I have a 2 step process: i read headlines and tag interesting articles as "read later".
Every now and then i go through this read later list, read some of the articles, and star the ones i want to save.
I use the rss reader/news aggregator Aktu (https://aktu.io),shameless plug: i built it, but Feedly (https://feedly.com/) is a good option too.
Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
#62I used the Firefox extension "Scrapbook", until the switch to web extensions killed support for it.
It was quick. And it saved a local copy; no worry about stuff "going away". I might get back to it sooner, or I might a considerable time later. Regardless, it would be there.
Things like this differentiated Firefox and promoted much support of it from its user base.
In short, it's my god-damned client/user-agent, and it should do what I want.
(And I thank all the developers who helped enable that. It is, was their creation.)
I welcome progress. But, taking away useful features like this, does not feel like progress.
P.S. Yes, my thanks and all that, don't really suffice.
However all the credit and blame shakes out, we've got a composite medium that seems, in important aspects, to be becoming more transitory. Things disappear. It's harder to "keep up with the flow". Noise and rank-gaming and all.
And (thinking of another recent round of comments on Google search results), I guess search isn't "sexy" anymore. Not for Web content, at least.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
#63I use the Tabs Outliner: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk... Here is a screenshot of my current HN reading list: https://i.imgur.com/KvbucE2.png It is similar to Tree Style Tabs for Firefox but with some key differences: - It sits in a separate window and shows the tree for your entire current session. Each Chrome window is a child of the root node. - It supports indentation via Tab or Shi…
It became nagware, which among several other (mis)features was a killer.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
#64I use the Tabs Outliner: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk... Here is a screenshot of my current HN reading list: https://i.imgur.com/KvbucE2.png It is similar to Tree Style Tabs for Firefox but with some key differences: - It sits in a separate window and shows the tree for your entire current session. Each Chrome window is a child of the root node. - It supports indentation via Tab or Shi…
It became nagware, which among several other (mis)features was a killer.
Do you mean that it repeatedly asks for payment? I purchased a license long ago and did not know how bad it treated free users in recent versions.
That being said, I still do not regret for paying for this extension. It is still the only browser extension I ever paid for and just like back then with Tree Style Tab for Firefox this is the extension that keeps me from switching away from Chrome.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
#65I'be been favouriting them since the feature was added.
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I confess though that I haven't actually gone back and read any yet.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
#66Feedly is awesome in terms of keep track of sources, and saving article for general "Read Later" as well as specific tags (can add multiple to any article). Highly recommend for gerneral content aggregation / sorting.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
#67For the most part I use Pocket because my Kobo ereader supports it. However if it supported Instapaper I would swap in an instant.
I've found Pocket often skips bits of text, usually bullet point items which I'm assuming it things are navigation menus or something. Really annoying. Instapaper does much better with this.
Every now and again it also finds an article it cannot extract the main content from. In that case it never ends up on my ereader, and there’s no obvious indication that there is a problem.
For either of those cases I save with Instapaper and use Erudite[1] to convert it to an epub.
To track my readying habits, I wrote a little PHP browser based application that interfaces with the Pocket API (and the hn.algolia.com API). Once I’ve read an article I archive it. Then when I’m back at my computer I run my app, which lists the archived articles, any related Hacker News pages, and lets me manage the articles (delete, save locally, etc.). It makes it easy for me to follow up and read the HN discussions after I’ve found the time to read the article.
Naturally I called it Pocket Lint.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
#68I like to save the page as .mhtml file by Chrome, and I can read it later offline or even the author delete the article.
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Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
#70I use a text file named "read". I store links as a list. When I have read them and it was worth storing I move it to a subsection called read and write notes or copy content if necessary. It looks somewhat like this: # To Read - [ ] [Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17637835) # Read - [x] [why children aren’t behaving and what you can do about it](https…
are you using this method when mobile too?