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by specifictso 3838 days ago
This amazing thing called "bookmarks".

Changed my life tbh

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Not sure if you are joking but I use bookmarks as my preferred read-later tool.

Firefox helps a lot with sync, open all in tabs, bookmark all and click/drag to reorder links.

I just put the link in "atHome" folder so to read it with more attention at,you guessed, home. The folder "atWork" is reserved for links where I must run some code, test some new library, etc due to more powerful machine. I have another folder "daily", for sites I visit every day (hn, soylentNews, hackaday, etc) and long posts eg with chapters (books, for instance); The folder "Weekly", for low volume sites, basically comics.

This, together with some speed reading, BS skipping and troll detect works very well, to the point Im often run out of things to read.

I always felt Firefox's Unsorted Bookmarks was a great inbox for articles to read later or ones you're not sure whether to read yet. I'm kind of surprised that concept hasn't made it Chrome or Safari. Likewise with bookmark tagging.
Interesting, this is the kind of feedback I was looking for, thanks.

I did try bookmarks quite a while ago (IIRC, in Firefox), including a few of the things you mention. I think I found it had some limitations. But that was a while ago. Maybe I didn't try enough variations or tweaking of it. Will check it out again.

Is that the best you could do? :)

In terms of jokes, I mean.