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Posted by satis
May 23, 2025 at 09:10 PM
Steve wrote:
> I now have Zoho’s Notebook
>https://www.zoho.com/notebook/ on my devices.
>You “send” or “Share” the Email, website, RSS feed, to Notebook and it
>creates a bookmark in the specific place you want.
I paid for Pocket because it *saved* the article, not just bookmarked it. Bookmarked news articles have a tendency to be removed, or go behind a paywall, or change URLs when archived by the sites, or simply be pulled. I’d never pay for a service that just bookmarked URLs, which is why I’m about to pay for GoodLinks.
I use a folder in Apple Reminders to bookmark Apple Music playlist URLS, radio station URLs, radio show URLs, and reminders w/ Apple Music URLs for soon to be available new releases. For whatever reason Apple doesn’t make it easy to be informed about new shows and doesn’t let you create a Faves folder for stations and shows, so this does the trick (with alerts to boot).
Posted by Steve
May 24, 2025 at 05:35 PM
The bookmark created on my phone is not for saving the article, it is a bookmark to read later on my computer.
I open the link within Notebook, either with their Article format of Reader view. If I like the article, it is saved in full.
Try it.
Posted by Lucas
May 24, 2025 at 07:34 PM
My current approach:
I already pay for Readwise Reader, which can sync with Pocket, so Pocket is already backed up there. Reader can also sync with Instapaper, so I think from now on I’ll just use Instapaper (free version) instead of Pocket. I also really like ReadKit, which can also sync with both Pocket and Instapaper, so using Instapaper seems like a good Pocket alternative for now. (I also use Zotero but only for academic stuff.)
Posted by satis
May 25, 2025 at 03:28 AM
Steve wrote:
The bookmark created on my phone is not for saving the article, it is a
>bookmark to read later on my computer.
That’s my point. It’s a bookmark, whereas I save the actual article immediately which protects it from immediate or eventual disappearance from the web or behind a paywall.
Posted by Amontillado
May 25, 2025 at 02:47 PM
Devonthink has browser extensions for Safari and Chrome. I use Safari, which probably means I guzzle too much Apple koolaid.
It will capture a web page as a bookmark, which is a link stored in Devonthink, as a PDF, HTML document, Markdown or other text formats, or as a web archive.
Web archive is an obsolete format, unfortunately, but it still has its uses.
Saving as an HTML document is fine but you’ll lose graphics and other references if their URLs change after you save the HTML. That’s just how HTML works.