I’ve always saved read-later links easily and nearly thoughtlessly but the problem with that was I then ended up with a massive pile of undifferentiated important and unimportant articles.
However, lately I’ve been pretty good about reviewing articles on Saturdays and Sundays. I categorize them as I go.
Some articles are really important. I read and act on those then and there.
Others are possibly interesting, of the ilk “10 Things You Didn’t Know About Star Trek!” I either read those on the spot, or leave them in my to-be-read list for later.
Some are articles that would have been interesting soon after I bookmarked them, but are now out-of-date. Like, for example, a Fortnite vs. Apple update from this morning – there will be more current news on the subject by the weekend. I delete those.
“Why on Earth did I think this was worth saving? What was I thinking?” Delete!
After a few minutes of that I will have read everything that needs reading, deleted what’s unnecessary, and what’s left are articles which might be interesting, but which I can just skip reading without any harm, and will still be interesting next month or next year. I tag those articles “archive,” and I’m ready to start fresh for the next week.
+1 for Devonthink for a Read It Later Service - not only for bookmarks but also for RSS feeds
It makes sense because Devonthink can help organize/store/search so many other things, you wind up coming back to bookmarks because they are part of your overall information/data collection
And it makes sense because you own your data - no need to worry about stuff stored somewhere in the cloud in a proprietary system that might disappear sometime
@TheMarty I think this is going to be a new growth area in the next couple of years. Bookmark management software is stale and there are new up and comers with innovative functionality looking to move tech-forward in this area.
Memex released an IOS app Mem Go. This IOS app is in the early days and a bit rough eg. Syncing takes a good 30 minutes with several hurdles to jump, but in their defense, it is still in the Beta release so still needs proper incubation time.
Resurrecting this topic, found it thankfully before writing a whole new one.
Does anyone use ‘Favorites’ in Safari? I have about 35 tabs pinned to my Safari browser. Previously, there were only 5-7 of things working on. Lately, it’s turned into, items that I check daily for updates.
I am trying to redo the whole (read it later, saved links, etc) Here is how I see it.
Read it Later - this is Pocket for me, I send stuff there all the time and when I am ready I process it weekly.
Saved Links - this is a mix for me. It gets divided into 2 areas.
Area 1 - DevonThink - these are links/articles/pdfs that I want to save and come back to at some point because they deal with a category, project, hobby, etc.
Area 2 - App? - This is the area that I am struggling with. What about links you check every day? Not necessarily for research. Here are a few examples for practicality
MPU Forum - Checking Daily
Build Better Bricks - Website releases Lego alternative instructions regularly
Redfin
etc
Recap, generally (for myself) there are links…
purpose of catching/sorting with knowledge/news/etc (Pocket)
I use the Safari compact tab bar and have two pinned tabs that will probably be gone by the end of the day. I have 81 bookmarks in Favorites on my Safari Start page. I delete bookmarks I haven’t used in a while.
Oh yes indeed. I have about a dozen folders set up to organize the sites I visit regularly by category. For instance, I have one that holds all of the publications I subscribe to: I generally prefer going to their home pages and selecting what I want to read to the firehose of their rss feeds. I’ve got one with links to online courses and another for administrivia, etc.
I have 8 links and a folder containing around 80 more in my Safari Favorites. The 8 are sites I use at least one a week and the others are ones that I use less frequently.
My “Area 1” files (i.e. everything that isn’t on my iPad Pro) are in Google Drive and/or Google Keep. A Keep document may be a URL, a note, list, image, link to a document, email, etc., or a combination of the above. Instapaper is my read it later app.
I have three or four links saved to favorites, for websites I use for work that I consult many times a day. I use the Safari trick where you can set a keyboard shortcut for those favorites, command 1 through command 9. I also have a bookmarklet saved to favorites that eliminates sticky overlays on web pages.
I still have not found a read it later and document saving workflow that I like. I have at least figured out what I dislike about all the solutions that I’ve tried, which is a breakthrough I guess.
For sites I checked daily, like this forum, I just remember to check them. I figure if I don’t remember, I probably did not want to check them daily anyway!
I use the Safari trick where you can set a keyboard shortcut for those favorites, command 1 through command 9.
I do this, and it’s really useful.
A minor point and apologies if you already know this: you don’t need to set a keyboard shortcut manually for the top 9 favourites. Just drag them into your priority order in the favourites bar and cmd-opt-1 to 9 will open them according to their order in the bar. I rename them with a number prefix to make it more obvious which number to use, but that’s not necessary: the shortcuts work purely on the position in the favourites bar.
I don’t think this tip is in Safari help (at least, I couldn’t find it just now), and I can’t remember where I read it, but it works , and the favourites bar doesn’t have to be open. Sadly, it doesn’t seem to work on iPadOS, even with an external keyboard.
By default cmd-1 to 9 is for the tabs from left to right, which is a useful combination in itself, of course. These also work on the iPad with an external keyboard.
Apologies if you already knew this, but I find them really useful shortcuts.
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, and the favourites bar doesn’t have to be open. Sadly, it doesn’t seem to work on iPadOS, even with an external keyboard.