I’m still surprised that Mozilla shut down Pocket. Lots of competition in the bookmarking / read-later space, but that’s because it’s such an important complement to a web browser. I think the organization should’ve refocused around 2-3 great web things that work with Firefox.
@manton Yes I agree. And it was built in with no need to pay some other company a fee.
Firefox’s big problem is market share. It has very little and doesn’t seem to do anything to grow it.
The average non tech person has no idea what it is and wouldn’t use it if you installed it for them.
They’ll trust Google Chrome (crazy!) because they know Google and Google actually advertises Chrome.
I want Firefox to thrive but I fear its demise is inevitable.
@manton I’m going to selfishly use this post and reply thread to see if folks jump in with recommendations on their current favorite Read-Later or bookmarking software. I use Reader (from Readwise) and Pinboard, but I’m always open to other suggestions in this space. Almost tried Raindrop.io.
@thebigbabooski I’m interested in what people are using too. I use Micro.blog bookmarks now but I know it’s not a natural choice for most people. (Yet.)
@thebigbabooski I use Reader as well. I did use Raindrop for awhile but because I’m only on Apple devices I moved over to Anybox for bookmarking. If I’m honest I’ll say that hardly ever use it. It just collects stuff I will never look at again.
@manton I was using GoodLinks but am using Linkwarden at the moment. I’m bad about actually going back to look at what I store and Linkwarden is more of a bookmarking than read it later service, but I do like that it archives pages you save. Wasn’t hard to self host either.
@manton poked around a bit with MB bookmarks: testing posting workflows. I think the issue with ALL bookmarking/R.I.L. services is balancing bookmarking features (how to balance display density of data and ease of search) vs. read later (web-site parsing and reading UX). Parsing and UX are hard.
@thebigbabooski I use are.na, here’s my hyperlink hodgepodge. are.na is a cozy corner of the web that you have to spend some time with to really grok. It’s not just for bookmarking, it’s more like a space for organizing your thoughts. I’ve seen it described as “a digital, open, multidirectional commonplace book” and “like playlists, but for ideas.” And also “Pinterest for hipsters.” 😊
@manton I use my memory. If I forget, it probably wasn’t all that important. The subconscious mind is great at filtering out what’s unnecessary. Articles have a limited shelf life, after all.
@Eyebeemania Reader’s RSS feed reader is good for very narrow purposes. I don’t think it works well as an aggregator of LOTS of feeds (in the style of most RSS apps since Google Reader)
@thebigbabooski I don’t have many feeds right now so perhaps that’s why I find it sufficient for my needs.
