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Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles to read?

As an avid Hacker News reader I continuously stumble upon fantastic articles that I really want to read, but might not have time for at that very moment.

I'd like to be able to add them to some kind of an online To-Read or To-Do list that I can then access from any computer and perhaps organize based on some kind of subjective priority.

I'd find it very hard to believe if something similar didn't already exist today, so it would be amazing if you guys could share that with the rest of us!

Thanks!

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I find that you always stumble upon fantastic articles. Recently I learnt to accept that I will never be able to read all of them and that in-fact it's better if I don't. Instead I will read what interests me at the time (while it is on the front-page of HN) and if it disappears then so be it.

Though to answer the question, anything you upvote is saved in your user profile under 'saved stories'. That's a minimalistic way to track them. Instapaper is another great alternative.

How does Instapaper compare to something like Remember the Milk? Is it basically a to-do list for URLs?

They're two completely different products. With instapaper, you visit a page, click a bookmarklet, and the page is saved to your instapaper account. You can then go back later and read the article. It's basically a huge "read later" list. There are a couple very cool features (read text-only, export to pdf|epub|other, iPad/iPod apps, ...) which really make it very good at doing what it does.

RTM is a general purpose to-do list. Theoretically, you could add a to-do with the URL and have it function as a read later list. However, the software is designed to be a to-do list, and the added functionality of instapaper will not be there, and if you ask the developers to implement, say, a preview feature for a URL they'll probably look at you funny and ignore you.

If you click on your name at the top right it will bring you to your profile page. From there click on Saved Stories. This will show you a list of all stories you have up voted in the order you up voted them. This is typically what I do to find a story later.

If the story is a blog link, I use Instapaper (http://instapaper.com). Highly recommended!

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