Great one. Planning to write one such for my own service that I built - https://closetab.email (delivers a weekly digest of bookmarks to my inbox, every monday morning)
Because the biggest problem with bookmarking is forgetting it forever after ;)
> I plan to implement some kind of settings@ address to configure and store user settings (dark theme? fonts?). However, this introduces state in an otherwise mostly stateless system.
I think the subject line can be used for settings while still keeping things stateless, e.g arial dark or like a preset name ad.
That's elegant; the subject field isn't used currently. However, it adds extra work for those who want all their articles in dark mode, or any specific style.
I hated Pocket too. I already used RSS reader, so, I ended up building https://reading.ashishb.net that creates an RSS feed of articles you add. And yeah, it has a readable mode turned on by default.
Your app looks great! I'm hacking on something related, so always fun to see new takes in this space. Did you try Instapaper as an alternative to Pocket? No intrusive features, great reading experience. I'm a happy paying customer and user for over a decade now.
I've been sending text html emails for my blogletter for over a year now. The single biggest struggle point is the spam filters in gmail/outlook/others which just render my emails waste for majority of the subscribers.
I think I recall from a previous post on HN that they use Mailgun. I can't speak for forlater but at my work we use mailgun because email delivery is a pain, as you've found. Using a third-party service is a lot easier because it's their bread and butter and you can let them worry about it.
Would be nice to have a tool that grabs a readable version of an article/link and lets you dump it into your favorite knowledge management tool (Roam, Obsidian, mem, …). Any recommendations for such a tool?
This looks great for when I am on desktop. Would love to have a workflow for mobile — e.g i see an article and click the Share button and pick an iOS shortcut or some app on the share sheet that grabs the text content and copies to clipboard , then I dump to my favorite notes app
Emails are the perfect tool for that, but I got tired of opening my email client to email myself and built an app instead : https://boomerang-app.io . I am using it mainly to save HN link as well :)
Because the biggest problem with bookmarking is forgetting it forever after ;)