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Are there any effective self-hosted applications to turn 'read it later' into 'read it now'? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by Swimming-Weather-127@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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I’m dyslexic and have ADHD while studying and working in mental health. I’ll do self directive research at work to better myself when I have a little ‘ah ha!’ moment, it’s still scattered but naturally I’m interested. While the stuff for study gets sidelined into a doom pile of saved articles and overwhelm. My "to-read" list would just keep growing, and the articles I saved in "read-it-later" apps would often end up being "never-read". 

So I am curious to ask, do you guys use any read-it-later apps? Ever run into any issues while using them?

For me, I use pocket but I quickly fall behind - way more in than out. That’s primarily down to me and my efforts but the application itself does nothing to assist me.

If you've had the same struggle, how did you tackle it? Or could you recommend some tools that might help?

Interested in everyone’s thoughts.

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[–] Zanish@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So this is more a process flow question than a tooling question imo. I've had similar thoughts and what I ended up on kind of worked.

Kanban board for tasking out -> nextcloud deck Obsidian for any notes needed Wallabag to replace pocket

My main improvements were to stop saving everything to pocket and only save either what's my current project/research interest and to start using Kanban to save ideas for future projects instead of dumping everything into pocket immediately.

Getting things done, Kanban, or bullet journal all have worked in some way in the past to better facilitate this. Although some of my friends find heavier processes get in the way of doing things I'm the opposite, heavy structure helps me move through the process.

Hope some of this helps.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Indeed a process issue. My OneNote share can attest to this (I've saved gobs of articles to "Quick Notes".

I recently restructured OneNote using the PARA idea: Projects, Areas of Responsibility, Resources, Archive.

Now when I save an article, I must file it properly at save time. It's really helped.