I am trying to improve my link collection methods. On my computer I have a good system but most browser plugins don’t work on phone. What do you people use/do to keep track of interesting links they encounter on mobile?
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imessage also shows you the links you've shared with someone in a separate searchable list. and if i can't remember what something was i can call and ask about it
Readwise is great for text it’s great at highlighting and resurfacing highlights from text.
Raindrop is really good at bookmarking & organizing any link, including things that aren’t text. e.g. I have collections of design agencies, typefaces, and personal sites, which don’t fit neatly in reader.
If I want to be able to get back to an article later by tags, I’ll usually toss it over the wall from Reader to Raindrop to tag it. But if I just wanna see the highlights in my daily review or be able to find it again via search, I don’t worry about it.
I bookmark it in my mobile browser, which is synced to desktop, and then copy in bulk out to Notion. Not a perfect system by any means. I think once the link gets to Notion I may not check it again for years.
I’ve been using Pocket for a while. It works on my iPhone and iPad as well as my computer. But I really need to get better about tagging links so I can find what I’m looking for more easily when I go hunting later.
I use Arc browser so I keep a lot of links there but temporarily mainly. For longer term I love Raindrop and use it for some things and always loved the looks of Goodlinks so would recommend checking it out.
Notion is my go to. Used to save to pocket till it ate a bunch of my links. Notion databases are a really great linkable, tagable and each entry can be referenced by multiple other entries through the relations data type. Happy to share how I do it if you want.
Interested to hear what you end up trying because this sounds like what I need. I currently have themed tabs in. Microsoft notebook (to be compatible to my work computer) but it's clunky.
I’m using google keep as my Instapaper replacement - it holds links I don’t want to read at that moment. Then I go back every couple of days, read, move into Evernote if I want to keep them or take notes or delete after reading.
I dump links into Instapaper (casual read-later), Things (task list for links to actively process), Obsidian Web Clipper (archiving reference material), and Zotero (academic papers).
My specific overkill workflow probably doesn’t make sense for anyone else, but all four of those work great on iOS
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https://Raindrop.io for bookmarks with tagging
Raindrop is really good at bookmarking & organizing any link, including things that aren’t text. e.g. I have collections of design agencies, typefaces, and personal sites, which don’t fit neatly in reader.
My specific overkill workflow probably doesn’t make sense for anyone else, but all four of those work great on iOS