Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
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Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
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Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
#2This appears to be from 2017.
Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
#3The Pocket thing was when I started to feel Mozilla lost their way. For a while I tried to maintain a patch that completely removed it. But, that's not fun.
The Idea of Pocket is great - seems everyone needs a personal-knowledge-base. And the archival feature was/is cool (I added the same to my own PKB).
And Pocket for organizing, messy like the article says. I do tagging and SQLite FTS - works a treat.
Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
#4Instead of pocket I just have a personal discord server where I organize all the neat links that I find online, I write a short intro or header and some keywords
Far easier to search and more instantly readable than pocket is
Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
#5The Pocket thing was when I started to feel Mozilla lost their way. For a while I tried to maintain a patch that completely removed it. But, that's not fun. The Idea of Pocket is great - seems everyone needs a personal-knowledge-base. And the archival feature was/is cool (I added the same to my own PKB). And Pocket for organizing, messy like the article says. I do tagging and SQLite FTS - works a treat.
> everyone needs a personal-knowledge-base
What is that? Do I need it?
Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
#6Big fan of pocket, you can save what you want and load it into your rss feed reader to catch up on things.
Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
#7Instead of pocket I just have a personal discord server where I organize all the neat links that I find online, I write a short intro or header and some keywords Far easier to search and more instantly readable than pocket is
I use raindrop.io for long-term "bookmarks", the saved feature from Feedly for mid-term, and plain text file(s) for short term/project-specific stuff
Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
#8FWIW, for my current methodology, I capture the text - often from a Tranquility Reader version of the page - and then apply a macro in Notepad++ that removes 90% of the remaining junk. Then save it to a text file.
Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
#9The Pocket thing was when I started to feel Mozilla lost their way. For a while I tried to maintain a patch that completely removed it. But, that's not fun. The Idea of Pocket is great - seems everyone needs a personal-knowledge-base. And the archival feature was/is cool (I added the same to my own PKB). And Pocket for organizing, messy like the article says. I do tagging and SQLite FTS - works a treat.
> everyone needs a personal-knowledge-base What is that? Do I need it?
Yes. You need notes that you can search through, and useful information that you've collected.
Otherwise you're limited by what you can hold in your head - and as you get older and take on more ambitious work you'll find that's a pretty big restriction.
My version of that is spread out across way too many places now - it's mainly https://til.simonwillison.net/ and https://simonwillison.net/ for published notes, 700+ public GitHub repositories for code and issue notes, 100+ private repositories for private code and private issue notes, a Pocket account with 8700 items in it, plus the contents of my 15+ year old Dropbox folder structure, an old Evernote dump and a continually growing S3 bucket of larger things.
I tried to tie it all together with a unified search engine, but that needs some more work: https://simonwillison.net/2020/Nov/14/personal-data-warehous...
Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
#10Saving this for later on Pocket, hopefully it won't get lost in my ever growing list of links that I will get to categorize and maybe even read some day.