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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

I just pin the tab and leave it there forever

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Lemmy save, and browser bookmarks

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

And then sometimes the browser forgets that it should reopen them and I'm like "noooooooooo… but actually, I'm free now" and pile another several hundreds of tabs right away Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I used to do this but I ended up with over 1000 open tabs. Now I close all tabs at the end of the day.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Wait, you guys are reading them later?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

right click -> open link in new tab

[I have hundreds of browser tabs open]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you have a mouse wheel try pressing it down while hovering over a link. Should open in new tab.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Alternatively, ctrl while clicking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Close all your tabs, you'll never look at them anyway.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Same here. Tried and paid for wallabag, but it wasn't get updates and the UX was beyond terrible.

If omnivore get enshittified, I'll just export the text I want to read locally and sync over git.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

For the most time I just kept tabs open or used the post save feature in Reddit, Mastodon and Lemmy. That way I collected dozens if not hundreds of things that were vaguely interesting but I never got around to looking at them anyomere and when I was looking for something specific I had to check multiple places, each with less than optimal search functions.

Last year I decided to just create a personal wiki. MediaWiki is FOSS, easy to set up (especially with docker), accessible from all my devices and has a huge community because of Wikipedia. I have specific articles for different topics:

  • a list of things I might want to buy at some point
  • lists for books, movies, shows and games I want to read/watch/play in the future
  • a whole category of cooking recipes in a format that's more readable than the original versions where you have to scroll through ten pages of the author's life story, translated into my native language and with notes on what I changed from the original
  • articles for projects or questions that I never quite solve ("Where to buy custom printed LEGO minifigs?", "What scripting languages are easy to embed in a C# project?", "What's that weird bug that causes zfs to throw errors when my HDDs take a bit too long to wake up from sleep?") with partial answers.
  • articles about my friends with some basic facts like birthday, favorite color, favorite animals, allergies and things we'd like to do together at some point
  • and many more

Whenever I find an interesting link, I check if I already have an article that it fits into and if not, I create one. That way everything is roughly grouped by topic, I can leave notes and I have a nice search function and even a history that keeps references to stuff I edited or deleted.

Edit: the downside is that saving a link takes a bit longer, especially when I'm on my phone. Because of that I occasionally still save links the way I used to and if I still think they're relevant after a few days, I move them to the wiki.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I also run a personal wiki, but instead of MediaWiki I chose DokuWiki as it's much lighter and uses plaintext instead of databases for storing information. It fits me well and there are plenty of plugins as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The personal wiki idea is so insanely nerdy and obsessive and might just be the thing that pushes me to start self-hosting stuff. That's such an amazing idea.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Even more so when you consider that my initial impulse to set it up was to be a better host when my friends visit. Like the stereotype of staff at high end restaurants and hotels taking notes on their guests' preferences. I kept forgetting important stuff like allergies and now with the wiki, I have everyone's favorite drinks and snacks ready, plan dinner that everyone likes, that kind of stuff.

From there it was just a tiny step to use the wiki to keep track of other stuff that would otherwise sit in the back of my brain or in some badly-maintained list until I forget.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Firefox has Pocket built into the desktop client. It’s not too bad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)
  • SingleFile on Firefox and Chromium (I have about 2 GB of saved HTML files)
  • SCREENSHOT EVERYTHING NO MATTER PHONE OR COMPUTER
  • To save links, I never rely on bookmarking. I use "Save All Tab URLs" on Firefox and similar addon for Chromium, and save all my URLs in plaintext files.
  • I am one of those archivist saviours who keeps silently archiving a bunch of obscure webpages onto archive.org and archive.is, and keeps updating archived webpages.

Everything mentioned here is FOSS, resistant against future inaccessibility, and time tested by a data archivist/curator (me).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Thank you for your hard work

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm using Firefox bookmarks. I know it's basic, but it's very easy to use and I have zero complaints.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I always laugh when I see people's workflows that basically come down to reinventing browser bookmarks. This ancient functionality is good and dead simple

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I just press C-d and create a bookmark.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I have an insanely large amount of Firefox tabs. Sometimes I got back through them sometimes I clear everything and start fresh. Currently I have 80+ tabs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I do the same but I'm using the Tabstash add-on to organize the tabs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Dam Tabstash actually looks perfect for bring some* organization to my browsing habits. Gonna try it out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago
  1. Feedr
  2. Lemmy save
  3. WhatsApp message yourself
  4. Teams message yourself
  5. Pocket
  6. Google Keep (book recommendations etc.)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

If I'm not going to read it on the device I'm currently on I use Firefox to send it to another device so I can read it later. Otherwise I just leave it open in a tab until I get to it. I have an e-ink Android device now so I tend to send text heavy things to it, and work things tend to only get sent to Firefox on a specific dedicated device.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I use Feeder for rss feeds, and I'll save articles in there for later

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

+1 for Feeder, I do most of my doom scrolling on there nowadays.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I read it now, cos I'll never read it if I save it. But I reckon the best solution would be to bookmark it/write it down somewhere. Don't ever just open a new tab, you shouldn't have more than like 20 tabs, at that point you're just never gonna look at them. And don't use a paid solution, why tf would you ever pay for that, even if it syncs across devices there are a million free ways to do that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I never save and read later. Am I alone in this?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Linkwarden self hosted. I figured out a way to share to it on android until they release an official client.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Wallabag for some stuff, other stuff I toss into daily notes in Obsidian.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I've been using Pinboard for a very long time (signed up when it was just a once off fee) but I want to switch to something self-hosted.

I use Pinboard for two things:

  1. Articles I want to read later
  2. Articles I want to save in case I need them again (like bookmarks)

I'd be interested in what you find if it's open-source, and if it can fulfill both use cases.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Pocket to aggregate everything

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I use raindrop.io it's very pretty and easy enough to use. On Android I can use the share menu to store articles making it easy to use on my phone too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I use my browser tabs honestly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Telegram Saved Messages

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I bookmark articles like PC gamers collect games on steam. I've gone back and read a couple

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

A mix of wallabag for read it later articles, miniflux for rss feeds (mostly github project I selfhost) and linkding for all other links

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Instapaper. I gave in and started paying for their subscription. It’s worth it. No other tool has come close to the simplicity, cleanliness, and power of Instapaper for me. It can handle most links, most ad removal, most paywalls.

The team became stagnant for a long time. But they recently declared they want to start reinvesting time into the product. That included doubling the premium pricing. But it’s the first change in pricing in almost 10 years. So it’s long overdue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Pocket. Solid for nine years so far, judging by my oldest archived page.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I use Pocket but I've been meaning to self-host Omnivore

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I realize you're probably talking about news articles but if you want to keep track of PDFs, nothing beats Zotero.

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