Week 396 was posted by Charanjit Chana on 2025-05-31.
It's so bad. I began using Pocket years ago but it's been announced that it's being retired. I mostly used it for bookmarking Tweets but when Twitter implemented it's own bookmarks, I relied on Pocket less and less to the point where I don't think I logged in for 3 or more years.
Instagram also has the ability to save posts and YouTube has the Watch Later list. I also use feedly for RSS which has a 'read later' function but apart from YouTube, I don't really want to be using any of these for bookmarking in isolation. It makes re-discovery a pain and when migrating to a service like Bluesky from Twitter, it's a key piece of functionality that is missing for me.
So I decided to fix it for myself. I have built a very basic bookmarking service that takes a link and remembers it. I can prioritise it as high, medium or low or just throw it into the archive.
I need to go through Pocket and decide what I want to keep, I might do the same for Twitter and Instagram too so that I do have a centralised repo.
Yes, browsers have bookmarks but I very rarely look at them and they're used for starting points rather than catching up.
I might share more details, or even open-source the idea. It's a JSON based approach that reads and writes to a single file so it can be hosted on basic hardware that runs PHP and can write to a file.
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