The other alternatives people have mentioned so far (I’ve been asking!) are Wallabag, Instapaper and Joplin, but no majority consensus so far by any means.
Readwise has been great for me and does everything I want and more. I am very glad I wound up going with them when I was considering options a few years ago, I thought about Pocket but it had too many rabit holes of ‘trending/popular’ content that my ADHD brain would get sucked down too easily
This is exactly the thread I was hoping to find when I opened the Beeminder forum today
I guess I’ll check out Readwise. I may put off picking a Pocket replacement until I see what Kobo is going to do, if anything. I just got a Kobo ereader a couple of months ago and have been delighted with its Pocket integration.
I’ve been using readwise for a while and helped with the launch/onboarding rollout of reader. Two products, but they work pretty seamlessly together.
Particularly cool features related to highlighted passages:
you can highlight physical books using your phone’s camera in the readwise app.
it’ll import highlights you’ve made in some other ecosystems, like ibooks or kindle
it’ll regularly export highlights to popular notes apps, like roam, notion, obsidian, etc.
integrated LLM so you can interrogate your highlights
With that last one, the missing feature for me is pointing out the articles that are related to the question but which I’ve saved but have yet to read, or might want to reread given the context.
