I am looking for a tool/workflow, with which I can manage a collection of all the stuff I see on the internet and elsewhere, that they are worth reading at a time in one place.
This includes:
- blog articles I randomly find on the internet
- social media posts
- news articles from RSS feeds
- books (pdf,epub,…)
- wikipedia articles
- topics I want to do further research on
- aso…
A lot of these things are bookmarks, I know that. I tried to manage my “ToBeRead” list in bookmarks before, but it didnt work out for me, because some things simply aren’t URLs, that can be bookmarked (e.g. PDFs, just names of research topics).
Besides that, longer threads on mastodon/lemmy e.g. can be easily bookmarked in the app itself, but than you start to manage multiple lists in multiple locations, which I want to avoid.
I am running my own Nextcloud instance and would like to also sync this stuff across devices with it.
I figured out (while using obsidian) that my brain works better when I dont have to worry about where to put things, but just tag them with topics, by relevance, e.g. So tags and the option to filter them would be nice!
Thanks beforehand :)
Edit: Doimg this with Nextcloud Deck, or synching an Obsidian Vault with Nextcloud came up to my mind, but I couldn’t come up with an idea for a conveniant workflow, but maybe it’s easier than I think?
I use Zotero for this. Used to use it as purely a reference manager for scientific papers, but started storing all kinds of stuff for archiving or later reading. My workflow is getting all news/articles I might want to read from RSS, and add to Zotero what I want to keep.
With the browser plugin you can store snapshots as well, so you can preserve it if it changes or is taken down. Not sure how a mobile experience would be as I only filter RSS-items on my phone, but no reading.
You can use file sync through a paid subscription or use youe own WebDAV server for it (I will be moving to this). Other than that, it is a database and folder with files, so you can probably use SyncThing or store it directly in Nextcloud also I would think.
I am a folder-person, but it also supports tags so you have flexibility in how you organize.
I use Linkwarden. It’s similar to Raindrop, as mentioned by the other comment, but self hosted. It even creates archived copies of saved pages, similar to archive.org. My Links is a community made iOS client for it, and there’s an android client as well which I don’t know the name of.
Another popular option is Karakeep. It seems to have slightly more features, and it’s been a hit since I’ve tried it, but Linkwarden had the edge on UI/UX imo. Try both and see what you like.
raindrop.io works well for me for most of what you’ve mentioned, but its not selfhosted so I’m interested to find out other options also.
I actually used raindrop.io for a long while. Tight little app. It’s too bad it’s not selfhostable
I use Readeck for ‘read it later’ type articles, things of interest. The downside of Readeck is that there is no one-click-easy way to back up your database if you want to move it to another server. You can, however go to /volume1/docker/readeck/ and download all the db files there manually which will allow you to move to another server. Make sure to grab the config.toml in the same directory. It has a Firefox extension as with most of these apps in it’s genre. Probably has a chrome extension but I avoid chrome.
I use Karakeep (Hoarder) for stuff I’ve looked up to try to solve issues, such as pages from Grok where I have inquired about certain problems I may have been having.
What is keeping you from using karakeep for you “read-it-later” articles, too?
Nothing. It’s just the whack way I like to keep things separated.
Prediction: you’ll never actually read most of what ends up on this to-read list.
Actually I do. In the evenings when I take my nightly meds with a bowl, I sit in my bed and peruse the ‘read it later’ articles.
I consider storing articles more as building a starting-point for research, rather than something I definitely think I will read at some point. I store by topic that is of interest to me, and when I want to do a deep-dive, I already have a bunch of articles waiting for me.
So, a bookmarks list basically.
I don’t see the difference
Karakeep might work for you
Make a textfile you sync between your devices. Save the URL, book name, or whatever; each on a new line.
So tags and the option to filter them would be nice!
You can tag them at will. Put “#TagName” next to an entry and later you can ctrl-f “#TagName” (or anything else) in the file. Notepad++, grep, and other tools will even give you a list of everything that matched your search criteria if you want to see all items that match at once.
I like to keep things simple!
