Show HN: Don't forget useful Hacker News articles, retain by ReRead'ing later

A couple of years ago I built something similar, combining RSS, HN and Twitter streams into a single feed where I could save things for later. I thought it was useful so I added a way for it to learn my habits and reorganize items in my stream by importance.<p>All that effort to solve information overload, and you know what? I never went back to read the articles I saved for later. And the length of the list just kept growing. Filtering down to just the interesting stuff still left too much interesting stuff for me to make it through. Eventually I had to declare &quot;saved item&quot; bankruptcy and delete all the data.<p>What I leaned was: No amount of technology is going to fix my behavior towards information consumption. Only mindfulness and a change of habits can make a real difference. Without that, these tools just add to the information overload problem.

This functionality exists - Click the up-arrow to the left of the article, it will log it in saved-stories and you can reread it later. Added bonus is that you +1 the article so others know you found it worthwhile.

We did something similar (to help with memory retention) and using spaced repetition a while ago: <a href="http://memstash.co" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;memstash.co</a>

I guess &quot;reading&quot; would need to be defined here. Sometimes I look at the headline of an article and decide &quot;this &#x27;might&#x27; be useful later&quot;....then I add to Pocket with some appropriate tags, with no immediate intention of reading.<p>EDIT: if it&#x27;s an article with important enough information in it that I&#x27;ll likely need. While I&#x27;m reading it, I&#x27;m usually taking notes in nvAlt that I can reference in the future in a way that&#x27;s indexed&#x2F;organized for me to find.

&gt;Isn&#x27;t this the same as bookmarking?<p>&gt;No, because when you bookmark you have to remember to go back to your list of bookmarks to re-read the article<p>I have a folder on my bookmark bar titled &quot;Articles&quot;. When I don&#x27;t have time to read an interesting article I see, I add it to that folder. When I&#x27;m bored and can&#x27;t find anything to read, I open that folder.<p>I&#x27;d argue that most people&#x27;s pain point isn&#x27;t lack of remembering they have articles saved to read.

Pocket (which used to be called readitlater) is a superior option in my opinion <a href="http://getpocket.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpocket.com&#x2F;</a> it has a desktop app, ipad, iphone, android, chrome extension ... and integrates with a shitload of apps (Newsblur, feedly etc etc). It also very beautifully designed. I use it every day, and have done so since it was first released.

Love the idea. Love it so much that I bought the domain reread.co a while back with the intent to create something very similar!

Neat! I was just thinking of building something like this!! I&#x27;m eagerly awaiting the chrome extension. When I was thinking of doing this, I thought the extension should have tagging as a form of organizing things to read later. I was really thinking of it as bookmarking + reminders. Let me know if you need some help!

I created this to save important HN posts, which I define as link that made it to the top 3. You can access only the latest 20 entries though, but past links are in my postgres database :-). And there is RSS feed too. <a href="http://www.tophnnews.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tophnnews.com</a>

... I just open more tabs and leave them open until I deal with them. SessionBuddy helps if you&#x27;re using chrome.<p>Besides, the next day you might find that the articles you wanted to read weren&#x27;t as useful as you thought.

Finally, someone paying attention to this. Browser extension should be high priority!

I had a similar idea I called Readminder. It would be a mobile app with push notifications setup for the time you want to read that particular article, similar to the way Mailbox does it for email.

Why only URLs ? Replace it with a textfield (140 Chars) and it is a reminder for everything. Auto-Conntect with Calendersoftware would be nice too.

Wait, there are useful ones?

So its like instapaper or Apple&#x27;s reading list with a timer?

What about dead URLs? Is there a cache option?