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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by 2wrist on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @07:00AM (#30345355)
I used to do the same and that turned in to turning tabs in to bookmarks, then i ended up with soooo many bookmarks.. then I discovered pocket. But within a year I had so many unread items, they even informed I was in the top 3% of users... Fuck.
Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by deckard1 on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @03:09PM (#30351947)
> then i ended up with soooo many bookmarks

yep. I've been thinking about this problem for some time now. With Google, and especially Slack, what I've discovered is resurfacing is more important than organization. You have some tiny thread of memory than you want to input into a system and have that system bring back the webpages and context. This is what Slack gets right.

We have Slack, we have Google, but we do not have anything that is personal. A personal search engine. Something like macOS Spotlight, but more contextual. In Slack you can find individual messages which match a pattern, but you can also expand to see the entire context of that message with date and time. The bookmarks in Chrome do not even tell you the date/time you added them. That's such a basic thing that is missing. The ability to create a "view" of your bookmarks organized chronologically would be another useful tool. In addition: what other sites were you looking at around that time? What city were you in? What was the weather in that city at that time? Sounds silly, but this sort of info can jog your memory.

The browser extends into the global but we have not yet discovered that the browser should extend the other way, into the personal. On one side we should have Chrome, on the other end should be Joplin or Obsidian.

Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by MasterScrat on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @08:52AM (#30346377)
I do the same, but then I take an iPad with me for long plane/boat trips with all the articles saved for offline reading.

Between the time spent in waiting rooms and actual travel time you can actually go through quite a lot of material (of course, pandemic didn't help with this strategy).

Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by malshe on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @09:11AM (#30346615)
I am looking for an iPad app to read the articles offline as I’m traveling again now. Do you mind sharing what app you use for this?
Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by MasterScrat on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @09:16AM (#30346682)
Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by malshe on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @11:23AM (#30348546)
Thanks
Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by sandman008 on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @04:02AM (#30357764)
You could also look at raindrop.io though unsure of iOS experience on it
Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by alan-hn on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @07:34AM (#30345614)
Maybe Pocket should have a leaderboard
Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by BeefWellington on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @10:22AM (#30347603)
And achievements.

This could be a hilarious product idea: adding a leaderboard and achievements to any arbitrary site. I'm sure someone has already done it.

Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by post-it on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @12:39PM (#30349819)
In a slightly better timeline, there's an "everything can have a leaderboard" craze instead of an "everything can be crypto" craze.
Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by CRConrad on Thursday February 17, 2022 @12:25PM (#30375913)
And in a VASTLY better timeline, there's an "everything can have a leaderboard" craze instead of an "everything must have ads" craze.
Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by alan-hn on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @06:30PM (#30354403)
There's still time, friends
Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by MezzoDelCammin on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @08:01AM (#30345855)
ideally with links to HN profiles ;-)
Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by 2wrist on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @09:36AM (#30346942)
hahaha that would be scary...
Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by merely-unlikely on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @12:36PM (#30349772)
I save articles that look interesting but aren't critical to Pocket. I have a daily script that clears anything more than 2 weeks old. Either stuff gets read or it gets forgotten.

I do something similar with reminders - I schedule everything instead of keeping lists. That way I get reminded in a more digestible fashion and often by the time the reminder comes up, it's no longer relevant anyway. Makes clearing the list more organic and less cumbersome.

Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good by em-bee on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @07:45AM (#30345719)
that's why i don't just bookmark everything. it also takes more effort to open a bookmark than to switch to a tab. instead i try to use bookmarks for the really important things.