Good part are articles in sites that I read with an RSS reader (Newsblur), so on it I can save articles for later reading. For others it depend on where I read them (i.e. phone, work computer, etc) and may have very different approaches, from keeping tabs open for months to send me links by mail, google keep or even send them to kindle.
Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles you want to read?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles you want to read?
#22Zotero - https://www.zotero.org/
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#23Contrarian thought here - but I stopped saving things. I was a very heavy user of pocket, pinboard, delicious et al for web articles. For academic papers I use Mendeley. I now make an active effort to read the article as I discover it - the point being (for me) that if I'm in the process of "discovering" an article, I'm not "working" on anything else that leads me to have to save it for later -- I'm in the zone, read…
I do much the same. I either read it at that moment, or decide my time is better spent elsewhere. I think that people in general underestimate the cognitive cost of context switching, and overestimate the amount of focused, free time they'll have in the future. Saving things for later 'feels' like you're accomplishing something, but with very rare exception, you aren't.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles you want to read?
#24Contrarian thought here - but I stopped saving things. I was a very heavy user of pocket, pinboard, delicious et al for web articles. For academic papers I use Mendeley. I now make an active effort to read the article as I discover it - the point being (for me) that if I'm in the process of "discovering" an article, I'm not "working" on anything else that leads me to have to save it for later -- I'm in the zone, read…
As my list of "articles to read" grew, I felt guilt and a touch of anxiety because it was yet another thing I didn't have enough time to do. Then, when I finally made the time to read some articles off the list, I was usually disappointed... Here was this thing weighing on my mind for months, and now that I read it I see it's not that useful.
Now I read things on an "as needed" basis: I find and read articles as I need them, for instance if I'm learning about Kubernetes that's when I'm going to go and read 10+ things in one sitting.
Another thing I realized: If I found it once, I can find it again... When I need it. The article isn't going anywhere.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles you want to read?
#25There's a self-hosted clone of Pocket, Wallabag: https://wallabag.org/en
Can't vouch for it, not having used it (yet), but it ranks pretty high on Alternativeto, which is a good sign.
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#26Every morning, anything remotely interesting in Feedly or HN goes straight to Pocket.
I mark at hour (at least) each day to look at the list. Usually more.
* news items: skim, share if needed, trash
* resources: skim, then save to color-coded Google Keep card if valuable.
* code: download & add a to-do item to Remember The Milk.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles you want to read?
#27I used to save articles to read in the future, but not anymore. If I want to read something, I can usually open HN or reddit and find something I'm interested in. However, I think this says more about the general low quality of articles published today (that they're not worth saving).
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#28I just open them then OneTab them, there already are myriads in the list and I have only read ~10. Although I happen to be intrigued by some subject all the time and feel constant urge to learn everything I find it extremely hard to read anything longer than a single display (900px-high) page and containing any amount of "water". I dream brevity was taught at schools and encouraged by publishers and not the opposite...
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles you want to read?
#29I’ve been downloading articles and longer form texts as PDFs and then just deleting them when I’m done. I could put them in directories when I finish them, but I rarely reference old articles (and they’re easy to find again anyway). Standard Unix tools work pretty well for searching within files.
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#30I mostly send it to my kindle with the browser extension push to kindle. http://fivefilters.org/kindle-it/