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Madza
Madza

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How do you 'Save for later'?

Let's say you find an awesome article somewhere across the web, but you don't have time to read it. You need to save it for later.

So far I've tried only Pocket. What are your solutions to this?

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Jan Peterka

Pocket to read it, then move to Notion for later references.

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Mike Healy

Just keep the tab open forever

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Yogi Wisesa

I send it to “saved messages” in telegram. And then use the search feature when I want to read or just forget it at all

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Michael Fasani

I've tried various tools in the past.

Now chrome syncs between devices, I just use a well-structured bookmark folder in chrome bookmarks. I have a ”Read Later” folder which I try to keep empty, actively reading and deleting, after reading I will either move the bookmark to a folder or delete it.

For note taking I use iOS notes and if make blog drafts on my phone I use Byword which syncs to iCloud, I was thinking about buying the desktop version too but by the time I am at my macbook I continue my blog posts in VS Code where I have various Markdown helpers.

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Andrew Baisden

I used to use Pocket which was fine but then I switched to Notion Web Clipper. It's one less app to use and its just as good as using Pocket in my opinion.

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Ryan Collins

I use Pocket mostly, but in Telegram I have a private group named Bookmarks that consists of only me. Makes it pretty easy to save from anything on my phone.

Besides the Bookmarks group, I have a couple other private groups that I can use to categorize information I save.

Before Telegram, I would use +aliases on my Gmail account. I would email stuff I wanted to save to USERNAME+info@gmail.com. In Gmail, I have a filter that would archive any email sent to USERNAME+info@gmail.com and remove it from the Inbox. I still use it from time to time when I'm on a foreign system but want to save something.

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Aadi

So I decided to build a bookmark reminder extension that will ask for you to set a reminder everytime you save a bookmark and it will send you a push notification incase you miss to read them. (Most of us do this right ? Saving bookmarks for later and then forget so I wanted to solve that issue)
Do let me know your thoughts 🙏

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Tobias Krause

Edge => right click "Add to collection"

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Hrefna Helgadóttir (Habbi)

Instapaper

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michelemauro

Used Pocket in the past, but it became an idea graveyard. Since my main news source is twitter, I use bookmarks or share with Google Keep and work them from there.

Oh, and of course I think some of my bookmarks will graduate from high school soon...

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Cyrus Gracias

Telegram, browser bookmark, inoreader, Dev.to bookmark
Yeah this many places!

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Jesús Roldán

Pocket for websites works fine because I can use it on mobile and desktop.
I use tags a lot, it keeps things nice and tidy.

For reminders and sometimes pages that I'm gonna use soon, I send myself a message on Telegram.

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shroomlife 🍄

Most times this happens here and I just put it on my reading list. The other times I use Google Keep.

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Dave Ross

I use Wallabag hosted on a Raspberry Pi in my home office.

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Ekip Kalir

Madza that is a great question by the way. One solution is to have one document like google doc, saving the links of all those online resources on it.