I’ve been working on my own Pocket replacement for the past few months. I was the head of product at Pocket in 2018/19, and ever since I left, I’ve had this itch to build my own version. Mozilla shutting it down finally gave me the excuse I needed.
Folio lets you save articles from anywhere, has a lovely reading view, lets you listen to articles with some really nice text-to-speech voices, and access all your saves offline across all of your devices. If you enjoyed Pocket, you'll feel right at home! It’s still early days but all the core features are solid and working well.
Pocket imports are available via their API (though it’s been a little flaky lately), and I’m wrapping up file imports from Pocket, Instapaper, Matter, Raindrop, and Readwise so it should be easy to make the switch really soon.
Lots of fun stuff planned ahead. I’d love to have you join us if you’re looking for a new home!
This is incredible and just what I wanted. Chrome extension and mobile app, and I could even seamlessly import all my pocket data direct from pocket. Absolutely using this. I don't tend to read things offline as much since internet is everywhere now, but I love having all my bookmarks in a nice browsable format with tagging.
Is there any way to see how many articles should have been imported from Pocket, and how many articles have actually been imported, to make sure it's complete?
Can you bring back the old Pocket recommendation system that had a finite number of articles recommended per day / per refresh window? I loved having an app to discover articles that wasn't an infinity pool, and stopped using it after the redesign.
Does Folio actually copy the content (i.e. if the original article is removed, Folio still has it) or does it function as a collection of bookmarks that it changes the presentation of?
Sorry, it's not available via the Aurora store. I'm going to do another release tonight – I'll make sure India is enabled in the Play Store. I don't think there are any limitations on the Firefox Add-on:
The good news is that it works great in the browser, so it should work really well in Ubuntu. We support desktop notifications in Chrome and Firefox. The desktop app is based on Chromium so it should be fairly trivial to get it working on Linux in the not too distant future.
Thanks! It's Backbone.js on the front-end (with lots of help from the amazing strophe.js), Rails for the REST API, node.js for lots of supporting services, ejabberd for XMPP, and MySQL for storage. It's one of those problems that seemed like it was going to be simple to solve and then wasn't (as usual) so there are quite a few moving parts to bring the whole experience together.
Rawgithub.com is not actually affiliated with GitHub. They also specifically say not to direct production traffic to their servers, or you'll run into problems.
The author of this seems not to have paid attention to that, which is particularly silly since the page is hosted on GitHub pages, and the assets can (and should) be hosted there as well.
I was not anticipating on my little 3 hour jQuery plugin hitting the front page of HN, so I didn't take certain precautions. That's a good problem to have.
In any case, I've now moved the library to also be hosted on Github pages.
I didn't mean to be harsh. "Never assume you won't hit the front page of a major traffic driver" is just kind of a lesson that everyone has to learn for themselves.
1) As was said above, no one will mistakenly buy an iPad instead of one of these railway clocks -- typically the grounds around which these IP infringement cases revolve -- and I'm not even sure if you can even buy this clock anyway.
2) Apple isn't illegally distributing these preventing their creator from a source of revenue they previously had.
This is quite obviously a digital homage to an iconic physical product much like the Braun calculators.
I'm not saying this is a good approach for Apple, or that they're safe from more general copyright infringement, but you've twisted the logic here so badly it misrepresents the issue.
It's pretty easy to fix using ImageMagick which is what most apps are using to resize images. At the command line it's the -strip option and in rmagick it's the strip! method. This does remove all meta data but for thumbnails like this it's probably desirable.
ImageMagick also has a -thumbail option that you can use in place of -resize:
This is similar to -resize, except it is optimized for speed and any image profile, other than a color profile, is removed to reduce the thumbnail size. To strip the color profiles as well, add -strip just before of after this option.
https://savewithfolio.com/
Folio lets you save articles from anywhere, has a lovely reading view, lets you listen to articles with some really nice text-to-speech voices, and access all your saves offline across all of your devices. If you enjoyed Pocket, you'll feel right at home! It’s still early days but all the core features are solid and working well.
Pocket imports are available via their API (though it’s been a little flaky lately), and I’m wrapping up file imports from Pocket, Instapaper, Matter, Raindrop, and Readwise so it should be easy to make the switch really soon.
Lots of fun stuff planned ahead. I’d love to have you join us if you’re looking for a new home!