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Re:Archiving in the trash: The Instapaper UI by Bro_Merch on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @03:36PM (#4540067)
In gmail if you don't archive something it goes away on its own and it's lost. I've been using Instapaper daily for about 3 years and have always considered it one of my favorite iOS apps. I use the 'read later' folder for exactly what it is. A dumping ground. A sort of limbo. When I want to save things for an extended period I just move them into a different (non-readlater) folder. They stay there. Not only that, but they are categorized.

There are a lot of stories/comments on HN that I disagree with, but in this case I really don't understand what the problem is at all. Maybe I am missing the point because I'm not using a designated "archive" function and don't realize how much better it is. Is there a reason archiving is better?

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Re:Archiving in the trash: The Instapaper UI by quanticle on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @04:06PM (#4540217)
>In gmail if you don't archive something it goes away on its own and it's lost.

Er, what? You don't need to explicitly archive anything in GMail. You can leave everything in your Inbox if you want to. The only folders that get auto-purged are Spam and Trash, where items older than 30 days get deleted.

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