• mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    Yes I use pocket and am fairly satisfied.

    Why do I use it? Well, I have been using it for about 6 years, was the first thing to work fine in my mobile, don’t want to install another extension in ff, hate bookmark handling by ff (at least in mobile), and want to push myself in reading.

    Although I nowadays see too much american articles in pocket to be relevant for me.

  • BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com
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    4 months ago

    I use Readeck which has a few extra features over Pocket and bookmarks: offline copy, sharable link to said copy, highlights, bookmarks collection and the ability to export saved articles to ebook. Oh and it’s self-hostable.

    Personnaly, I mostly use it to bookmark and highlight articles I have read, with some bookmarked to read later.

  • cfi@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I use Wallabag in the sense that I save articles to it, but I only really read them when I don’t have service or on my e-reader

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      4 months ago

      I subscribed to wallabag, but there are so many rough edges I gave up on it after six months. Terrible experience 😕

  • Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    I have a Firefox plugin called Tranquility Reader, which basically strips out all the ads and bullshit and gives you the article as just plain text on a white background. It also has the option to save the page as a pdf, so if I want to read something later I just do that.

  • Hyacin (He/Him)@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    I tried it. I tried just opening lots of tabs. I tried grouping tabs. Open tabs strewn across 3+ devices, “to read later”, until eventually some months later I just give up and close them, having lost interest or simply seeing a need to close some of the overflowing tabs.

    My only solution to this problem - as BAD as ChatGPT is and as much as we hate it - feed the thing I’ll want to “read later” straight into ChatGPT RIGHT THEN, and just read a summary of it.

    I’ve been doing this for a couple weeks now and so far, so good.

  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    Neither, especially with Pocket. There’s something about an add-on integrated into a browser that makes me worry about privacy. I hate how pocket is bundled in Firefox and take great pleasure in disabling it in the browser’s config file. If it was something that could be downloaded on your own I might have had a different opinion about it. I just make a bookmark folder for articles I want to read later. It takes a few extra seconds to store and access but I think it’s worth it.

  • krash@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    I use omnivore for longer articles and highlighting parts of the text. It also have a plugin to sync with obsidian. It’s really good, but I imagine self-hosting it can be tricky.

    For a link-dump, I use Shiori. Could be anything vaguely interesting but I want to take a look later - works wonders for that.

    And I have been a former pocket user, wallabag… But I stick with omnivore and Shiori.

  • Cwilliams@beehaw.org
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    4 months ago

    I use Google Keep (I know, I know). I can share any link to the app and then I can access it from whatever device I’m on. You can also notes, which can come in handy for random things.

  • PatheticGroundThing@beehaw.org
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    4 months ago

    I tried to use Pocket because of Mozilla’s relentless promotion, but I ended up finding it too clunky compared to regular bookmarks.

    • BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Quick! Crack open The Western Canon by Harold Bloom! Start reading now and don’t stop until you’re done! If it’s not worth reading now it’s not fuckin’ worth reading AT ALL!

      🤦🏻‍♂️ You utter dingus 🤣