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Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

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Post by skeaker »

beala wrote: post #25

I realized that all I needed was basically a way of syncing bookmarks across a bunch of different platforms (linux, mac, iOS, android) and browsers, and I didn't really need any of the fancier features like offline access. I had claude code one-shot a simple python web app that saves links to sqlite. I stuffed it in a docker container and hosted it on my home server. I set up a public portal using cloudflare tunnels…

If all you need is to save bookmarks, could you not simply sign into your browser and use the built in sync feature?

Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

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Post by politelemon »

floundy wrote: post #6

I switched to Wallabag. 14 day free trial (an actual free trial that doesn't require CC info). There's a Pocket import function. I found it useful to filter the .csv that Pocket downloaded me into two .csv's, one for unread articles and one for archived articles, that I respectively imported into Wallabag as the import feature allowed for "mark as read" on imports. About 10% of the articles I had didn't download due…

How does the import to kobo happen?

Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

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Post by hamburglar »

extr0pian wrote: post #5

Wallabag. I switched from Pocket to Wallabag years ago because I didn't like sponsored content and ads in Pocket. I originally started paying for it as a subscription directly from wallabag.it, but then I started self-hosting it. Wallabag has an option to import all of your articles from Pocket too. It's a fantastic service.

I also use wallabag

Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

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Post by floundy »

politelemon wrote: post #32
floundy wrote: post #6

I switched to Wallabag. 14 day free trial (an actual free trial that doesn't require CC info). There's a Pocket import function. I found it useful to filter the .csv that Pocket downloaded me into two .csv's, one for unread articles and one for archived articles, that I respectively imported into Wallabag as the import feature allowed for "mark as read" on imports. About 10% of the articles I had didn't download due…

How does the import to kobo happen?

I installed KOReader following these instructions: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Ko...

Wallabag plugin is built into KOReader. Launch KOReader by clicking the icon it puts in your Kobo library, then in the menus you will find Wallabag config. I added a "Wallabag Articles" folder for it to sync to.

Note if you use a password manager, my password had a double quote which I believe messed with the .lua config password string, so I was getting connection errors.

It took 80-90 mins to download 1200 unread articles to my Kobo. I haven't played with the auto sync function yet, so far I just manual sync before/after a reading session.

Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

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Post by beala »

skeaker wrote: post #31
beala wrote: post #25

I realized that all I needed was basically a way of syncing bookmarks across a bunch of different platforms (linux, mac, iOS, android) and browsers, and I didn't really need any of the fancier features like offline access. I had claude code one-shot a simple python web app that saves links to sqlite. I stuffed it in a docker container and hosted it on my home server. I set up a public portal using cloudflare tunnels…

If all you need is to save bookmarks, could you not simply sign into your browser and use the built in sync feature?

I'd love to do that, but I'm split between different browsers on different platforms. I'd also love to consolidate browsers so this isn't an issue, but iOS hobbles anything that's not Safari. Idk part of me thinks maybe I should just save links to obsidian or email them to myself, but I'd really like saving a link to be a single click.
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