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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)

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Post by jacquesm »

djbusby wrote: post #3

The 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.

Pocket could have been the 'Memex', but they decided to do it server side, possibly as a way to get people to start using Mozilla/FireFox accounts. If it had been local with an email backend (IMAP or so) that would have been great.

Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)

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Post by hamsterbase »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #130
hamsterbase wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Thank you for your reminder. May I ask if you are accessing the website on your mobile phone? The pricing page is located at the top of the official website for desktop version. If you are using the mobile version, you will need to click on the hamburger button. I have updated the wording to: “Free during the beta period, Provide Believer plan, one-time purchase (60$) with lifetime updates.”

FWIW, I'm on mobile, and I too was concerned when I had to look around to see the price. It seemed like an "If you have to ask, then..." scenario. But your $45 price seems really reasonable, so maybe worth showing it clearly on the mobile landing page? Not my area of expertise; just my personal 2 cents.

You can try the desktop version first, and then consider buying it after the mobile version is released. Until iOS and Android are developed, there will be no charge.

Currently hamsterbase provides rss subscription export, you can take any cell phone rss client subscription.

https://hamsterbase.com/developer/rss/

Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)

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Post by pmontra »

asaddhamani wrote: post #94
hamsterbase wrote: post #68

Most "read it later" services save web pages on their servers, which cannot preserve paywalls, ad-free content, pages that require login or registration, and pages on a local network. Sharing why I decided to develop my own "read it later" software. 1. I have a habit of saving web pages I like, most of which are in MHTML format, some are saved as single-file HTML, and others are web archives saved on iOS. Altogether,…

Yesterday I was on a flight so I downloaded some paywalled articles on my phone using safari reading list. Once we took off and I lost connectivity I opened the article and saw - the paywall page. I tried looking for mobile read later apps that save offline and save what I saw not what their servers see, but not much luck. I’ve my own app which can save pages as I saw them and create reader views out of them, but no…

Firefox Android used to save a local copy of pages bookmarked from inside reader mode. Unfortunately that went away years ago, maybe 2018 or 2019.

Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)

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Post by wintermutestwin »

hamsterbase wrote: post #68

Most "read it later" services save web pages on their servers, which cannot preserve paywalls, ad-free content, pages that require login or registration, and pages on a local network. Sharing why I decided to develop my own "read it later" software. 1. I have a habit of saving web pages I like, most of which are in MHTML format, some are saved as single-file HTML, and others are web archives saved on iOS. Altogether,…

>web archives saved on iOS

Could you elaborate on how you are doing this?

Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)

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Post by projektfu »

dredmorbius wrote: post #49

Original author here. My six-year-old rant still mostly applies (there've been some improvements to tag editing, and there's now in-article search for the Android app), but Pocket still massively underdelivers, increasingly as one relies on it more. Most recently, I found I had to revert to a six-month-old version of the app in order to have both paginated navigation and to be able to open the "web view" in app ... w…

(ReadCube) Papers, but I honestly haven't tried it since like Papers 1, so can't speak to how it is these days.

Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

hamsterbase wrote: post #83
Dr4kn wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is your program called?

https://hamsterbase.com

Just learning it exists and it's something I could never found a good software for. And it supports saving things with the excellent SingleFile.

I'm definitely going to give it a try, although as a Firefox user the workflow is going to be a bit less nice.

EDIT: just tried it, it's very nice. Right now, the UI makes it a bit better than just using in SingleFiles, but not enough to justify $50.

However, if this would become a way to fully manage my Firefox bookmarks, I would pay for this, in the spirit of https://www.bitecode.dev/p/i-checked-if-browsers-could-cache.

Right now, the UI to manage the bookmarks sucks. Plus there is no way to:

- save their content for offline reading - search their content

This means it's are very hard to get value out of them.

Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)

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Post by PaulHoule »

hamsterbase wrote: post #68

Most "read it later" services save web pages on their servers, which cannot preserve paywalls, ad-free content, pages that require login or registration, and pages on a local network. Sharing why I decided to develop my own "read it later" software. 1. I have a habit of saving web pages I like, most of which are in MHTML format, some are saved as single-file HTML, and others are web archives saved on iOS. Altogether,…

See https://getupnext.com/, it can save many paywalled articles and dejunk quite a few pages. Their infrastructure for “read it later” is great and they told me they are working on adding a recommender to it to make it a more complete solution.

Re: Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)

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Post by hamsterbase »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #135
hamsterbase wrote: post #68

Most "read it later" services save web pages on their servers, which cannot preserve paywalls, ad-free content, pages that require login or registration, and pages on a local network. Sharing why I decided to develop my own "read it later" software. 1. I have a habit of saving web pages I like, most of which are in MHTML format, some are saved as single-file HTML, and others are web archives saved on iOS. Altogether,…

>web archives saved on iOS Could you elaborate on how you are doing this?

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-archive-websites...

You can take a look at this article.

I will sync web archives to my Mac through iCloud, and then import it in bulk into Hamsterbase.

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