I use Zotero and https://pinboard.in.
I’ve been working on my own Pocket replacement for the past few months. I was the head of product at Pocket in 2018/19, and ever since I left, I’ve had this itch to build my own version. Mozilla shutting it down finally gave me the excuse I needed.
Folio lets you save articles from anywhere, has a lovely reading view, lets you listen to articles with some really nice text-to-speech voices, and access all your saves offline across all of your devices. If you enjoyed Pocket, you'll feel right at home! It’s still early days but all the core features are solid and working well.
Pocket imports are available via their API (though it’s been a little flaky lately), and I’m wrapping up file imports from Pocket, Instapaper, Matter, Raindrop, and Readwise so it should be easy to make the switch really soon.
Lots of fun stuff planned ahead. I’d love to have you join us if you’re looking for a new home!
Does Folio actually copy the content (i.e. if the original article is removed, Folio still has it) or does it function as a collection of bookmarks that it changes the presentation of?
I use Obsidian Web Clipper [0] with the Relay Obsidian plugin [1] (I'm the author) for syncing.
Web clipper converts websites to markdown and puts them into your Obsidian vault, and then Relay can sync subfolders in your vault to make sure you have a copy on all of your devices (even between a work and personal vault for example).
Relay is also collaborative, so I frequently clip things, clean them up a bit, and move them into shared folders (like docs pages).
I like the feeling of local-first combined with a malleable UX. Especially for the pocket use-case, offline-capable is a must for me so I can catch up on reading when I'm flying or otherwise off-grid.
[0] https://obsidian.md/clipper
[1] https://relay.md
I use Readwise (and Obsidian).
I came to the realization (through another commenter on HN) that I never actually read things I save. It’s just where my good intentions go to die. If it’s not worth reading in the moment, I don’t read it. I’ve been using a little bit of AI summaries to get more context from an article if I’m not actually going to read it, or want to see if it’s worth reading.
Chiming in with a slightly different perspective: I often bookmark things I see in passing that might not be useful now but may in the future based on things I know I want to do.
Case studies in certain engineering/programming tasks, something I read that I found useful and want to have handy to share with others in the future, project ideas or notes for long-running efforts I pursue and sometimes want a "bucket to pull from" for instance.
While it's certainly true that I probably _use_ 10-20% of what I bookmark, I don't think it would be possible to realize the same positive outcomes without the 80% that I don't. (Just last week I was able to braindump a large piles of 'examples/essays I found helpful learning about neural network optimization' to one of my engineers because I'd kept them handy after they helped me.)
I should say though, I sense this is a slightly different use case than the "I want to read this article just to read it" bookmarks where I know I never will, which is certainly something I've experienced but is a minority case in my life nowadays, so I wanted to vouch for productive scenarios too.
Same. I used to read a bunch of things offline using Instapaper, but that was when I commuted on the tube (no signal, then), now I hardly commute. I still save things (in a text file) but try to save them with grepable keywords, so I can find them more easily later.
Same
Shhh don’t ruin the hype train ! We need to get the vc money in those startups going ! /s
Hey, this is Pao, the guy building https://fika.bar.
Fika is a place to save, discover and share content built upon 3 products:
- A local-first bookmark manager (Works 100% offline) - A feed reader: With feed discovery from your bookmarks. - A blog/newsletter platform
The only thing it currently does not have is e-reader integration yet. But you get the other 2 products bundled together which make a lot of sense.
You should add a public leaderboard called the Fika score (a play on fico score)
Also, I don't seem to be able to login - stuck at "Syncing to this device."
The link to your blog doesn't seem to work
Raindrop.io. Made by a Kazakhstan based dev.
I have a bookmarks folder called "check later" for all the things I'll never get around to reading.
I've been assembling a list here:
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/pocket-exporter#-pocket-altern...
I'm self hosting Readeck (https://readeck.org/en/) and I really like it. It's nicer than Pocket was, the website extraction seems to work better, and it can't ever be shut down.
For my Kobo, I wrote a mod that lets me redirect Pocket API requests, and a small proxy server that translates Pocket API calls into Readeck calls.
So far it's working flawlessly and my Kobo is using its built in Pocket viewer for Readeck instead. I'm hoping to open source it soon so others can use it.
I ended up on Readwise Reader after trying a few different options. It unapologetically caters to power users and is clearly built by people who actually use and care about the product, so I'm finding it to be a pretty solid improvement over Pocket.
They also have put some effort into making their mobile app work reasonably well on eInk displays, so it's pretty great on a Boox tablet. It has real pagination, which is a feature that I was pretty annoyed about losing in Pocket when Pocket rewrote its mobile app.
I've been using Instapaper for many years to collect things to read later, and I use Pinboard to archive things that I've read and want to save.
Nothing but bookmarks and archive.org and PDFs. Every time I update the browser, I make sure to take a manual backup of the bookmarks.
Instapaper. It's simple and sleek. Provides direct import from Pocket.
Same here (although from Omnivore, not Pocket).
I still miss Omnivore, but Instapaper is absurdly far ahead of Pocket. For example, Pocket could never figure out how to store paywalled content (for which I have a subscription to), despite having deep Firefox integration (although an extension with page access should be enough) and iOS having an API for the share sheet that allows injecting JavaScript into the page being shared.
I wish del.icio.us was still a thing.
It more or less is. It was purchased[0] by the one man operation Pinboard.in (by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=idlewords), which has most of the same functionality.
I was a Pinboard user and fan for many years, although I now have some concerns over the current health of the project, and have since moved away in favor of self-hosting Linkding.
I replaced it two years ago with a small something I built for myself and serves me well [0], haven’t looked back since.
I also self host a small app for syncing bookmarks and a miniflux instance. Having the bookmark service publish an RSS feed for miniflux to consume is brilliant. Thanks for sharing.
pinboard.in
I like the privacy first approach and the web 1.0 look. The tag cloud is pretty neat too
Wallabag. I switched from Pocket to Wallabag years ago because I didn't like sponsored content and ads in Pocket. I originally started paying for it as a subscription directly from wallabag.it, but then I started self-hosting it. Wallabag has an option to import all of your articles from Pocket too. It's a fantastic service.
I also switched to their hosted/paid offering and currently have no plans to self-host. I also aftee that the import tool from Pocket just worked and did a great job.
I also use wallabag
Throwing another answer in for Instapaper. It’s not as new and flashy as something like Readwise or Matter, but also doesn’t try to do too much.
Killer features of Instapaper for me include the kindle digest and IFTTT integration (which I use to mirror my archived articles to Raindrop.io)
I don’t use Instapaper as much as I used to when I had an iPod touch on the subway, but I’m a subscriber. Happy to support the indie effort.
Yup this is where I ended up too
I realized that all I needed was basically a way of syncing bookmarks across a bunch of different platforms (linux, mac, iOS, android) and browsers, and I didn't really need any of the fancier features like offline access. I had claude code one-shot a simple python web app that saves links to sqlite. I stuffed it in a docker container and hosted it on my home server. I set up a public portal using cloudflare tunnels to access it when I'm not on my LAN. I wrote a little bookmarklet that saves a page and is compatible with the various browsers I use.
If all you need is to save bookmarks, could you not simply sign into your browser and use the built in sync feature?
I'd love to do that, but I'm split between different browsers on different platforms. I'd also love to consolidate browsers so this isn't an issue, but iOS hobbles anything that's not Safari. Idk part of me thinks maybe I should just save links to obsidian or email them to myself, but I'd really like saving a link to be a single click.
I use https://fabric.so
Is there a way to simply browse your workspace or do you always have to use their search?
I have a little side project I started a couple years ago for this: https://linksort.com/
I work on it when I can. I'd like to add an import from Pocket feature but I haven't had a free weekend in a while.
The project is fully open source: https://github.com/linksort/linksort
Ages ago I made a PWA (cras) that install on my phones and it's a share-target, so I've been adding to that.
Self hosted, like four PHP scripts and Sqlite.
I wrote a plugin for Obsidian called Slurp which cleans a web page's html and converts it to markdown.
If you have an iPhone, just use reader view, then print it but don’t select a printer and then share it. A PDF pops out. Then shove that in iCloud Drive or on your phone and read it later.
No services or set up involved, works reliably and you can keep the PDF forever.
if you have an iPhone just use Safari's Reading List. It syncs with iCloud
Just started using Curio - https://curi.ooo/
TIL about .ooo TLD
I replaced it with a tiny app that I built for myself, that just has the features of Pocket that I was using.
Bookmarks and Reader Mode.
For me Kobo support is the most important feature. But haven't found a substitute.
Also no word from Kobo (Rakuten) about this. Very disappointing.
Check out marklar423's comment above - they wrote a mod that redirects Kobo's Pocket API requests to their self-hosted Readeck instance, which might solve your Kobo integration problem.
How about Karakeep if you want to run it locally. You can also have it tag your bookmarks automatically if you connect it to a LLM.
“Add to Reading List” on iOS Safari
Never used Pocket, but I moved to Raindrop.io (from Pinboard) for my bookmarks. I believe it can import Pocket.
Selhosted Wallabag + ReadKit app on iOS synchronized with Wallabag instance.
https://ln.ht/ isn't bad
Nice, I really liked delicious back in the day.
> But nothing came out of my research.
Seriously? I call bullshit. Type "pocket alternative" into your favorite search engine and you'll find a bunch of sites that recommend a few good alternatives. This is a pretty good question for reddit.com/r/selfhosted as opposed to hn, and it's well covered there.
https://openalternative.co/alternatives/pocket has a good list
https://github.com/search?q=bookmark+&type=repositories&s=st... is a good search as well that surfaces several good options (Karakeep, LinkWarden, Shiori, etc.
Personally, I went with Karakeep hosted as a docker container on my NAS, mostly because my pocket list is pretty much dump and forget and the UI and backend language looked the nicer of the top options.
Readwise Reader and Obsidian Web Clipper.
wallabag. Actually been using it for years, with a short detour to the now-gone Omnivore.
Some time ago I went to Vivaldi and since then I use its Reading List.
Instapaper
Instapaper
I’m an Apple user and switched to GoodLinks at first but later migrated to AnyBox because the latter one can create PDF and WebArchive snapshots of the webpages.
I use fika.bar. it's really nice!
Raindrop
I switched to Wallabag. 14 day free trial (an actual free trial that doesn't require CC info). There's a Pocket import function. I found it useful to filter the .csv that Pocket downloaded me into two .csv's, one for unread articles and one for archived articles, that I respectively imported into Wallabag as the import feature allowed for "mark as read" on imports.
About 10% of the articles I had didn't download due to Captcha requirements or paywalls that had been added since I had archived the article in Pocket. Once my articles imported to Wallabag, I filtered the unread list from 0 to 3 minutes which showed me all the ones that were paywalled or only saved snippets. I fixed them with the Wallabag browser extension, which has an option to save content direct from browser.
I now have Wallabag on my Android phone, Boox ereader (runs Android), and Kobo ereader (via KOReader). No issues and I'm liking it better than Pocket.
How does the import to kobo happen?
I installed KOReader following these instructions: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Ko...
Wallabag plugin is built into KOReader. Launch KOReader by clicking the icon it puts in your Kobo library, then in the menus you will find Wallabag config. I added a "Wallabag Articles" folder for it to sync to.
Note if you use a password manager, my password had a double quote which I believe messed with the .lua config password string, so I was getting connection errors.
It took 80-90 mins to download 1200 unread articles to my Kobo. I haven't played with the auto sync function yet, so far I just manual sync before/after a reading session.