Pocket is shutting down. ;(

[mmagnus]

Pocket is shutting down.

What's next? I'm not sure.

• any2k - I just got an e-mail about https://any2k.com (before p2k)
• https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle

[rga5321]

Hi @mmagnus,

I tinkered with wallabag. It's not bad, but you have to a) pay for the service (itś cheap) or b) self host it. I coded an script:

https://github.com/rga5321/arts2ebook

But in the end, it's not worth it for me. It is not as good as calibre scrapping content, and I didn't want to use another service.

What I did is fork the recipe and customize it to fetch the articles from Todoist instead of Pocket. I chose Todoist because I already pay for it, and I just needed a service to store URLs. I also coded some extra functionalities, like adding a QR and the URL at the end of every article:

https://github.com/rga5321/todoist2ebook

I have it installed on a raspberry pi, and it executes every day at 7 am. I only add articles to my articles project in Todoist, and they appear in my Kindle the next day. It's working good so far.

[mmagnus]

To me pocket was always two things:

1. Safari (Browser) Plugin to Save Content for Later Reading: This plugin has become increasingly essential in recent times. Are there any alternative options available for this purpose?

2. Getting links from Pocket (I think this we could figure out with another service that collect things to read -- see point one).

[rga5321]

In my use case:

(1) Todoist has official extensions for Chrome and Firefox. I just right clic and add to Todoist:

It's nearly as easy as with pocket. I say "nearly" because I have to select the todoist project every time.

(2) Once the links are in todoist, I rely in the script I coded.

[mmagnus]

BTW I built something at some point to collect snippets from Safari into a text file (in this context to be used with Emacs and Orgmode, but this could be anything). I starged to use it right now. It also is based on the Context menu.

https://github.com/mmagnus/orgmode-capture-all

[mmagnus]

hehe matter welcomes pocket users ;-)

[mmagnus]

https://www.instapaper.com

[mmagnus]

1. Matter
   • ✅ Great design & UX
   • ✅ iOS + Safari extension support
   • ✅ Sends articles to Kindle (daily/weekly, clean formatting)
   • ✅ Read-later queue, highlights, tagging
   • ❌ No Android
   • ❌ No self-hosting

2. Omnivore
   • ✅ Free & open-source
   • ✅ Great read-it-later app with browser extensions (including Safari)
   • ✅ Tags, notes, full-text search
   • ✅ Syncs with Readwise, Obsidian, Zotero
   • ⚠️ Kindle support via custom script
   • 💡 Self-hostable version available

3. Instapaper
   • ✅ Classic Pocket alternative
   • ✅ Safari extension
   • ✅ Send to Kindle built-in (manual or automatic)
   • ✅ Highlights + notes
   • ❌ Closed-source, privacy not as strong

4. Wallabag
   • ✅ Open-source, self-hostable
   • ✅ Tags, highlights, ePub export
   • ✅ Browser extensions, mobile apps
   • ❌ UX not as polished
   • ❌ Kindle integration via external script/tools (e.g., Calibre plugin)

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