Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles you want to read?

I have been using Google bookmarks, but I am not happy with the solution.

Things tend to get lost of forgotten or the context of why I saved them is lost.

I think eventually I will write a simple custom solution that helps me recall the reason and context of why I saved the article along with the key takeaways I got out of it once read.

I used to use the Firefox extension Scrapbook. It saved items to a local archive (not "local storage", but user-definable and in the normal local filesystem).

Then the Firefox rewrite killed it.

In addition to news that I'd like to be able to refer back to, I've found more and more "perennial" Web resources disappearing.

The Web is not a library. If I want to be sure I am able to refer to something more than a week or a month later, I'm finding I need to ensure I have a local copy.

Scrapbook made this easy and convenient.

My typical web pattern is to open a page, read it's content, open any interesting links in background tabs, then deal with them either immediately after reading the current page, or in bulk at my next idle moment. Dealing with them depends on the content. Generally, I'll take one of 3 paths:

If it's something I want to action against soon (IE - a really neat ESP8266 project or very cool VIM trick), I'll add the URL to ToDoist. I'll review all my links in that every week or so and either discard, take action, or move to the next two options. I've managed to keep my ToDoist URL queue fairly short - under 100 items.

If it's an article or long form journalism I want to read later for recreational purposes (IE - the history of the ESP8266 or how VIM has made the ESC key the battleground of the technical elite), I'll generally add it to Pocket (which captures the article text) thinking I'll go through and catch up on them the next time I have an hour to burn (usually a plane flight). This never happens though. My Pocket list is huge and untouched.

If it's a link in reference to something I'm interested in doing/exploring (IE - something about ESP8266 projects or VIM tricks), I'll add it to Pinboard.in and pull it up when I start messing with those projects again. I actually refer to my Pinboard.in account frequently, but never expire anything. There's ~12k links and it's a bit of history of what I've been interested in over the years.

I got tired of bookmarking & forgetting about the articles. So I just started to email them to myself but with a filterable address +bookmarks@gmail.com

This way I could redirect it to a sub folder while having it unread. I could also jot down notes in the same email thread for later reference. It has worked well for me so far.

Pocket.

OneTab.

Those are my go-to options.