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

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Post by gitgud »

gk1 wrote: post #24
viksit wrote: post #16

Contrarian 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 ne…

I can relate to that. I build up how good the article could be in my head, but it never lives up to it. Probably best to consume then save the good ones!

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

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Post by Crono »

tibu wrote: post #52
aasasd wrote: post #25

There'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.

Looks pretty good. Did anyone already try it?

I use it since ~4 Years and i love it. Its also my personal archive. You can tag articles and there is an app (for reading and sharing articles directly to wallabag) and a Firefox addon which lets you quickly add articles and tag them immediately.

But its a rather big php app which did not perform well on my bananapi which i used until half a year ago. Now whith a little bit more hardware (udoo x86) its running really fine.

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

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Post by sgillen »

viksit wrote: post #16

Contrarian 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 definitely do this too. But for some acedemic papers it might take me (a first year PHD without much research exp) a few hours to actually understand everything the author is doing. For these cases I definitely try and skim the article to see if it warents furher review, and then save it to a folder in Mendely so I can go through it later.

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

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Post by PocketSupport »

Sorry to learn about these missing articles in Pocket. We'd like to try and help you track them down if we can. If you're interested, just click "Contact Pocket Support" at https://help.getpocket.com/ and reference this post, and someone on our team will take it from there.

Regarding your other comment, Pocket offers basic search (title and URL) for free, and Pocket Premium includes full-text search so you can find text throughout all of the articles you've saved (with support for operators if you want to get fancy).

In addition, you can save any URL to Pocket, so feel free to try saving those Tweets or Facebook Posts. How they'll appear in Pocket depends on a few factors, though, including whether they're public or private.

Hope this helps!

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

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Post by Eddy_Viscosity »

I use zotero both for all my references, bibliographies, document citations, and also tracking interesting articles I see on the web or hacker news. Very easy to use with the browser plugins, I just hit the save-to-zotero icon and it not only save the page but a snapshot of it so I can also read it offline (or if it goes away). Highly recommend.

https://www.zotero.org/

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

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Post by anotherevan »

For 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 thinks 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.

[1] https://evanmclean.com/software/erudite/

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