Siddhartha Golu (Oct 30 2024 at 10:46): Siddhartha Golu (Oct 30 2024 at 10:46):With the recent news of Omnivore being sold to ElevanLabs, I wanted to kick off this conversation on what are people using for their read-later setup.
My journey was - Firefox bookmarks -> Pocket -> Instapaper -> Omnivore. Now I've settled on using Zotero with their web-clipper + syncing it using a WebDAV endpoint. Works reasonably well and it's a setup that I can reasonably rely on to exist for the next few years (if not forever).
Alex Barnes (Oct 30 2024 at 11:46):I've been using wallabag for about 6 months now and quite happy with it.
Started out using their paid hosted service and have recently self hosted it myself.
The android app is fairly basic but does what I need.
My only complaint is that you can't add RSS feeds, but hoping to write something myself for that at some point.
https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag
Siddhartha Golu (Oct 30 2024 at 11:51):Yes, I forgot to mention Wallabag in my original post. I had self-hosted the setup for some time, it did its job but somehow the entire experience never "sparked a joy" (sorry about the Kando reference in the wild).
Omnivore was the best of the bunch and I was really looking forward to getting proper self-hosting support merged in, but alas this news was a huge bummer :/
PS: honorable mention to Shiori as well
James Thurley (Oct 30 2024 at 17:32):My setup is very simple:
AJ Kerrigan (Oct 30 2024 at 17:54):My journey looks like @Siddhartha Golu 's with some missing steps (bookmarks --> pocket --> omnivore). I've gotten pretty bad about actually saving stuff to omnivore though, aside from recipe links which I'm more likely to shove into notion anyway. Need a todo list item to spend a couple days bikeshedding a new flow that I can also fail to use :sunglasses:
Daniel Buckmaster (Oct 30 2024 at 20:26):I'm using Pocket because it's integrated with my Kobo e-reader. I don't love it, but it does suffice!
Erik Lundevall-Zara (Oct 30 2024 at 20:27):I use Logseq for notes in general, including links, videos (you can add bookmarks to specific sections in a video), pdf documents (mark and reference specific sections), etc.
Pretty low effort to handle references of different types.
Andrei Jiroh Halili (Oct 31 2024 at 04:47):Currently I use a mix of Google's saved items, browser bookmarks and Pocket on Firefox + Reading List in Chrome.
It was always a mess.
Daniel Buckmaster (Oct 31 2024 at 05:16):What really gets me is that Firefox integrated Pocket into the browser... But I still have to log in a couple of times a year? What!
Ron Waldon-Howe (Oct 31 2024 at 07:11):I came across https://readeck.org/en/ and http://linkwarden.app/ which are self-hosted, although LinkWarden does have a cloud hosted option
Siddhartha Golu (Oct 31 2024 at 07:18):Readeck looks pretty cool! I couldn't find their source code easily, so adding the link here for others. The tech stack is also minimal and interesting, with golang + stimulus and turbo. Going to give it a spin.
Ron Waldon-Howe (Oct 31 2024 at 07:26):Yeah, I have a homelab cluster I can run it on, but it's not exposed to the internet, so I wouldn't be able to save new bookmarks when I'm not at home
Although, I suppose that's what WireGuard is for...
Andrei Jiroh Halili (Oct 31 2024 at 08:08):Ron Waldon-Howe said:
Yeah, I have a homelab cluster I can run it on, but it's not exposed to the internet, so I wouldn't be able to save new bookmarks when I'm not at home
Although, I suppose that's what WireGuard is for...
maybe tried using Tailscale funnel (or even Cloudflare Tunnel) for that?
Siddhartha Golu (Nov 01 2024 at 10:18):Update after trying out Readeck: very impressed. Clean UI, runs fast with minimal server resources, can extract content from difficult/long websites (I tested with this article), has FreshRSS integration.
The only downside is that there are no mobile apps for offline reading.
Brett Cannon (Nov 01 2024 at 19:10):For anyone who is an Inoreader user, it has a read-later feature that I at least forgot about. :sweat_smile: Their extension also has support for saving the current tab to your saved list.
üllar (Nov 13 2024 at 08:19):my journey has been similar in that I used Pocket for the longest time (almost a decade), but when they started jamming Firefox accounts down my throat and making overarching UI changes, then I moved to Omnivore, but now I was also forced to migrate away from it
since I wanted a more generic place to store my bookmarks (think not browser-specific), I started using Raindrop and now I just chuck links there, add a to-read tag to those items, and when I open Raindrop on whatever device I can quickly see what my to-read things are
there is no specialized "reader" functionality in that it just opens links in whatever browser, but that is good enough for me, for now...
Jamie Tanna (Nov 17 2024 at 21:03):I've been using Wallabag for ~decade now! Was self-hosting for a few years, then moved to https://app.wallabag.it/ as a way to support the project, and reducing what I needed to self host
I will say that my Wallabag's been at > 999 unread posts for _ages_ and not sure if I should admit defeat)
(related pain point with Wallabag: https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag/issues/2800)
Nick Sweeting (Nov 20 2024 at 22:19):shamelesss self-plug, I build https://archivebox.io, it's less nice looking than http://linkwarden.app/ and a bit more oriented towards power users / the self-hosting community / archivists
I know a lot of the options in this space though and like many of them, here are some others I recommend checking out:
Daniel Buckmaster (Nov 21 2024 at 00:50):Based on this topic and Marco posting on Mastodon, I'm trying out raindrop.io ... initial impressions are good!
Siddhartha Golu (Nov 21 2024 at 04:22):Nick Sweeting said:
shamelesss self-plug, I build https://archivebox.io, it's less nice looking than http://linkwarden.app/ and a bit more oriented towards power users / the self-hosting community / archivists
Sweet to see you here! I've been following ArchiveBox for many years, such a useful project!
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