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Show HN: Don't forget useful Hacker News articles, retain by ReRead'ing later

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Re: Show HN: Don't forget useful Hacker News articles, retain by ReRead'ing later

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Post by sinak »

hrabago wrote: post #25
sinak wrote: post #23

We did something similar (to help with memory retention) and using spaced repetition a while ago: http://memstash.co

Whenever I see websites like this, I always ask myself questions like "How much does it cost?" and "How does it make money?" and "Who's running this site?". The fact that none of this information is shown scares the heck out of me. It's a shame - I like the concept.

Yeah, I should make that more clear. We built it for the Techcrunch Disrupt hackathon (and won a free trip to Paris as a result). It's on Heroku and I pay about $40/mo to keep the site up and running for people to use for free. SMS is currently disabled to keep costs low.

Re: Show HN: Don't forget useful Hacker News articles, retain by ReRead'ing later

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Post by ghc »

A couple of years ago I built something similar, combining RSS, HN and Twitter streams into a single feed where I could save things for later. I thought it was useful so I added a way for it to learn my habits and reorganize items in my stream by importance.

All that effort to solve information overload, and you know what? I never went back to read the articles I saved for later. And the length of the list just kept growing. Filtering down to just the interesting stuff still left too much interesting stuff for me to make it through. Eventually I had to declare "saved item" bankruptcy and delete all the data.

What I leaned was: No amount of technology is going to fix my behavior towards information consumption. Only mindfulness and a change of habits can make a real difference. Without that, these tools just add to the information overload problem.

Re: Show HN: Don't forget useful Hacker News articles, retain by ReRead'ing later

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Post by avlok »

hrabago wrote: post #25
sinak wrote: post #23

We did something similar (to help with memory retention) and using spaced repetition a while ago: http://memstash.co

Whenever I see websites like this, I always ask myself questions like "How much does it cost?" and "How does it make money?" and "Who's running this site?". The fact that none of this information is shown scares the heck out of me. It's a shame - I like the concept.

I built this for personal use & wanted to share for others to use. It's extremely cheap to maintain so I don't need to charge for it.

Re: Show HN: Don't forget useful Hacker News articles, retain by ReRead'ing later

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Post by avlok »

trustfundbaby wrote: post #5

Pocket (which used to be called readitlater) is a superior option in my opinion http://getpocket.com/ it has a desktop app, ipad, iphone, android, chrome extension ... and integrates with a shitload of apps (Newsblur, feedly etc etc). It also very beautifully designed. I use it every day, and have done so since it was first released.

I use pocket as well and it's great for marking articles to read later. I built ReRead so I would be reminded (by email) of articles that I should read again at a later date

Re: Show HN: Don't forget useful Hacker News articles, retain by ReRead'ing later

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Post by avlok »

Killswitch wrote: post #18
trendoid wrote: post #4

Finally, someone paying attention to this. Browser extension should be high priority!

First thing I thought was a Chrome extension that you can click and it'll take the current tab url, and either popup a little window asking you when to remind, or you can set a default reminder time in the options.

I've added this to the list. Thanks for the feedback :)
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