I use read-it-later services extensively to save any news I want to do blog posts about later, or something I want to look at in more detail when I have time (and three monitors).
I had been self-hosting Wallbag for quite a while, and did a video about it too, but I had some issues re-installing it when I moved to Docker container hosting on my VPS.
Ominvore certainly looks very interesting, with a modern interface and quite a few useful features. I’m starting so long with their free cloud hosted service, and could register with ease, and even initiate an import from Pocket. They do have a docker-compose file for setting up containerised self-hosting, but I’m going to wait a bit just to see if that matures a bit, as it seems it is early days still and no proper guide has been completed yet for it.
Apart from the usual saving links for reading later, with tags, archiving, etc, it also supports a clutter-free reader view for easy reading without adverts. In the reading view you can also change formatting, highlight text, add/view notes (in a Notebook view), and track reading progress across all devices (each note also shows a yellow progress line on its tile view to indicate reading progress).
It also has a feature for subscriptions via e-mail. Omnivore can generate unique e-mail addresses you can use for subscribing to online newsletters, and it is intelligent enough to realise that if a mail contains a welcome message, note from the author, etc that will be forwarded by Omnivore to your main e-mail address (without exposing that to the newsletter service).
It also has integration with Logseq, Obsidian notes, webhooks, and more.
You can save links by adding them in the app, using a browser extension, or by using the share option on mobile devices and just selecting to share to the Omnivore app.
There is no price model yet set up for the service, but I’m pretty sure they’ll have an ongoing useful free tier with their online service, and probably only charge for some more advanced functionality. There is always the self-hosted option too. But for now, this looks very functional and useful to me, and I’ve started using it.
I’ve been using a personal discord server to *save all the things I want to read, watch, or look at later
Edit: no idea how Dave found his way into this comment
Discord is not FOSS and is a privacy nightmare.
This is true, but it’s not like I’m stuffing sensitive thing in there. It was a lazy alternative to this and the best I had a few years ago
Can’t you just do that with a Google doc?
So with sub-channels and then dragging and dropping between them? I suppose existing Discord users may try that. I’d be interested to hear if many others are using Discord in that way.
I have a personal Discord server that I drop links into - fully intending to get them out of Discord and into my notes someday, though let’s just say I’m quite behind on that.
Mostly I find it useful because I can drop a link on from my phone and quickly access it from my PC, or vice versa. There is some organization into channel types (food, music, games, etc) but these days I just use a general channel as a dumping ground and figure I’ll sort later, ha.
I’ve used it as personal notes for various things, like music or hobbies.
However any OC does not, I don’t want discord to own my work in perpetuity. I’ve mostly moved away from discord for that, though still use it with friends. (can’t find a better chat-party stream alternative)
i generally junk my telegram saved messages