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Already the "bookmarks" for most folks is already a dumping ground that they never look at. For myself, I know that if I were saving pages to a spot, I would be in major trouble with just a massively growing pit of pages I'll never slog through.

So, I would think it would be great if you could "triage" pages you wanted to save for later. Even if I could move them from a "to read" to a "read" pile would be awesome. Didn't know if you had any pointers on making that happen.

Edit: I should say, btw, I actually do use my "don't close tabs" for the train. My commutes are typically small, so I don't do large readings.



> So, I would think it would be great if you could "triage" pages you wanted to save for later. Even if I could move them from a "to read" to a "read" pile would be awesome. Didn't know if you had any pointers on making that happen.

Not really; I do a first, basic sort when saving according to very crude topic (Math, CS, news, …). When I actually read, I treat it essentially as if I were reading online; unless I really enjoy the file, I delete it after reading. If I do enjoy it, I move it to a separate 'permanent' storage area.

One advantage of this over bookmarks for me is that I somehow spend more time looking at my directory tree than my bookmarks, and so am more bothered by an enormous (in the sense of number of files, not size) directory than by my bookmarks becoming, as you say, a massive dumping ground. Thus, having the files on disk somehow seems to cause me to deal with them, either sorting them more carefully or deleting them, much sooner (or, at least, before the end of time :-) ).




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