If you have been someone like me, who is a voracious reader, information junkie and hard pressed for time, Pocket was a god send. Whenever you come across an interesting article, you can just save it to pocket, read it at leisure, refer it at any point of time. More than that, the recommendations based on the reading was spot on. If I have been sharing interesting articles, now you know where they came from. Beyond all of that, it also saved articles from sites that were behind paywalls.
It was one of the app, that I used a lot and has helped a lot. So naturally I did really feel bad and upset when I read the news Pocket would be shut down. (The last time I felt this bad was Google shut down the reader.) I also felt bad, I didn't see so many people feeling bad about the shut down and writing ode to Pocket. I hardly saw only one post. (Well, that sort of explains the shut down)
Well, we are humans, we move on, life moves on. We start wondering, what next? what is the alternative?
To be honest, I was too tempted to ask one of the LLMs to help me build a chrome plugin or an app that would let me save the articles directly to Google Notebook LM, you know to be more AI powered and so on. After dabbling a bit on that, better sense prevailed and asked the LLMs for a replacement and alternatives.
After looking at Raindrop.io and Notion Clipper, I settled for Raindrop.
If you just want to save links and read later, Raindrop is the one to go with. If you are someone, who want to save the articles, highlight and want the content, and have already been using Notion, then Notion Clipper is the way to go.
Oh by the way, If you have been a power user like me in Pocket, and have saved a lot of articles, then Pocket lets you to export the links. Not the entire content of the links.
Once you export the links and download them, you could import in Raindrop and get to all those articles you are yet to read.
By the way, I had 10,000 unread articles and 9000 read articles in archive
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Only humans were involved in writing of the post :) :)
