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Nice! I'm far past the point where I have any chance of ever clearing up my-list without just re-creating my account and starting from scratch. Last time I did some rough calculations, I've ended up with months worth of non-stop reading. Glad to know other people are doing better!

As for Pocket itself, I cannot imagine my life without it. I pay for the premium purely to support it (I don't really use any of the premium features). But I wish I could extend it! There's all sorts of little things that I would've loved to have, but even with the recently-improved update schedule I'm not getting my hopes up.

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Part of what helps me with having saved more than I will reasonably read is being okay with missing out. I generally accept that I will die, which is liberating. I’m not yet to the point of not saving the article in the first place, as I hold out hope/plans for setting up a way to easily search all I’ve saved. I use Anki for phone numbers and addresses and language and other things, and I let that slide sometimes, too, and focus on positive reinforcement whenever I practice whatever I find valuable (per BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits).

I know that when you do the math, you end up with a huge list. The trick is to focus on one little portion of your reading list (the next bucket in my post).

Some months ago I've also realized I had items in my list from 2017. But I didn't read them. You don't have to read everything. Just focus on what currently has your attention: a specific event, a topic, just sth that's interestingly for you now. This way you'll manage to read more.

Again: I think the goal is not to achieve inbox zero. The goal should be to just read/learn more.

I'm in a similar boat. I use pocket almost exclusively when I'm travelling. It works really well for that but I'd love to extend it. Eg download and store video content, or permit tagging when submitting URLs via email, automatic tagging, ...

Can anyone recommend a hackable alternative? I found https://alternativeto.net/software/pocket/?license=opensourc...

I am working on something similar to Pocket: https://getsavory.co/. It's early days for Savory -- you can only save links from Chrome so far.

After you install the extension, you simply bookmark your tabs (using the keyboard shortcut or clicking the star icon) and they show up in Savory. The app is centered around tags and we are planning to add more features depending on what users want. I would love to get feedback if you want to give it a try.

In a very similar situation. On the off chance any body from pocket is reading this, I'd kill for the ability to save a pdf! I read aot of research papers and I'd love a way to save and reference them later.

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