Pinboard.in has been the perfect long term bookmark solution for me. It has simple tagging, the site is clean and easy to read, search is excellent. Have gladly paid year over year the 22 bucks for the full shebang.
Thank you!
Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
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Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
#32My use case for Pocket is completely different from the author’s. I use it every day to get web content onto a Kobo ereader. It strips ads and often gets stuff behind paywalls. My family shares the same pocket account and we often end up discussing things that get synced to all the kobos in the house. This functionality is so useful and seems like a well kept secret. If it went away I’d really be upset.
Same here with Onyx.
Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
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#34I use Joplin for this
Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
#35Pocket isn’t a bookmark database, it is a tool for saving things to read later. The user interface is primarily built for reading, not organizing. I use Pocket extensively for reading, but I use Raindrop separately for organizing and managing content that I want to archive for future access with proper search, filtering, and categorization. To me, these apps serve separate functions and need different user interfaces…
I don't understand. How is that different from bookmarks?
One is a queue. Another is a directory. Pocket articles are more conceptually one-and-done. I don't have time to read this now, so I put on the queue to read tomorrow morning. Not, I found this cool article I plan to reread many times over several years.
Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
#36Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
#37The 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?
> What is that?
For me it's a web-app tied to a PG database. But I started on SQLite. And it keeps notes, links (tagged), archive-page, put my own notes on it, etc.
Many folk use things like Evernote, Pocket, Notion, DokuWiki, etc for their "stuff".
Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
#38Very much agree that Pocket has gotten worse as I've used it over the years. It's so bad I've mostly moved to the much better Readwise (https://readwise.io/). I'd be fully over if they actually supported a decent export (see below). It's sad because I'm probably in the 99th percentile of Pocket users in terms of usage and am happily paying them for Premium.
I can't remember a significant improvement to Pocket in 2 years. Meanwhile, here's a non-exhaustive list of major, basic features that don't work: -Searching my own archive. This works maybe 75% of the time on articles I am 100% sure are in there. -Having a "permanent copy" of articles. This is Pocket's version of "full self driving," in that it doesn't mean what you think it means. -The ability to do any sort of advanced search. Pocket's web app has had a regression for exact match searching or multiple word searching for the longest time. I've raised numerous tickets with support and never get any meaningful responses. -Reliability of text to speech. There have been weeks-long spells where the better TTS voices just don't work. -Highlight exports or really any decent API interactions.
I'm guessing that this software is just on life support now. I'd love to hear from someone actually at Mozilla on what's happening with this software. What's been the headcount on this project?
Anyway, anyone on Hacker News is almost certainly served better by Readwise. Matter also looked promising but they didn't have an Android app so I never bought in.
Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand. How is that different from bookmarks?
One is a queue. Another is a directory. Pocket articles are more conceptually one-and-done. I don't have time to read this now, so I put on the queue to read tomorrow morning. Not, I found this cool article I plan to reread many times over several years.
This is absolutely an advertised feature of Pocket and it's frustrating they're so inept in supporting this.
Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
> everyone needs a personal-knowledge-base What is that? Do I need it?
> What is that? For me it's a web-app tied to a PG database. But I started on SQLite. And it keeps notes, links (tagged), archive-page, put my own notes on it, etc. Many folk use things like Evernote, Pocket, Notion, DokuWiki, etc for their "stuff".
Also vimwiki