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Ask HN: How do you manage articles from different sources on your phone?

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I read technical articles from Medium, Linkedin, Hacker News, etc. on my phone. If I came across something I might want to read later, I used to manually copy and paste the link into a Notion page.

But this process seems tedious. Does anyone else have the same issue or is it just me?

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Telegram's Saved Messages[1].

Previously, I used to send URLs to myself using WhatsApp, but searching through messages on <web.whatsapp.com> is painfully slow compared to Telegram's search capabilities. The speed difference is likely due to Telegram leveraging the benefits of a desktop-native app, though I'm not totally sure why it's so much faster.

Notion supposedly has beefed up its search engine recently, but my last experience with it was about three years ago, and it was frustratingly slow. I've been hesitant to revisit and see if they've actually improved.

[1]: https://telegram.org/blog/albums-saved-messages#saved-messag...

Thanks for sharing. I've known Telegram as a messaging app, but I haven't had a chance to try it. I downloaded Telegram and tried Saved Messages on my phone.

Personally, I prefer tools like Omnivore, which are designed for managing reading lists and bookmarks. Others have mentioned similar tools like Instapaper and Pocket, but I haven't tried them in-depth.

Omnivore.app - me and my friend wrote a short review on it here: https://adopter.substack.com/p/omnivore-the-privacy-focused-...

This is great! Thanks for sharing the article.

Pocket. Mozilla is trying to make it a content discovery service, but at its core it is a content vault. Just send any link to pocket (on mobile or browser extension)

If I find anything online that I want to read later (whether on my phone or not), I save it to Omnivore. That said, I often don't read on my phone opting to read on my tablet instead.

I just downloaded the Omnivore app on my phone. I can share the link to the app, and it automatically extracts the title and user. There is a bit of a delay for the article to show up in the app, but in general, it works pretty well. Thanks!

And its OSS!

I used Safari’s reading list.

In the past I’ve used Instapaper. If you’re a Firefox user, it comes with Pocket. There are dozens of services to solve this problem.

Thanks. Tried both Instapaper and Pocket just now. I am more of a minimalist, so I like Inspaper better so far. Pocket uses its home page to recommend new content, which might be interesting for some people but not for me. But I like that Pocket lets me assign a label when adding a link.

I use Pocket (getpocket.com), although I will freely admit that it mostly serves as a graveyard of links.

Thanks. Someone mentioned Pocket as well, so I tried it. Graveyard would be an interesting name for an app that does something similar.

Three apps have been suggested so far: Omnivore, Instapaper, Pocket.

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