Lemmy is a perfect reddit replacement in terms of saving a post "for later" and never coming back to it - eviltoast
  • aeharding@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The worst part is bookmarks are sorted by post creation date, not date bookmarked.

    So if you bookmark something old, it’s gone in the bookmark chasm.

    (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

    • AVengefulAxolotl@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      I think categories/topics would be great as well. Maybe a collection for read later, tech, news etc. So i could sort them better.

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      10 months ago

      This has given me an absolute aneurysm. I saved something to show the wife only for it to not be there when I went looking. I found the post the long way and sure enough it was still saved.

      Maube it was a glitch…

      Unsave and resave. still can’t find it. rinse and repeat.

      Eventually found out about the saving order quirk and sure enough all the way at the bottom was the saved post in question.

  • Bizarroland@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Also used it to save information to the internet for future people to find if they ever need it.

    I just recently I had an issue getting an OLED display driver to work on an esp8266 board, and given that it was a cheap board on a popular sale site I recorded the information so that other people when they are looking for the exact same thing I’m looking for will be able to find it from my post.

    I have little to no intention of further referencing that post

  • RotatingParts@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    That and not being able to be notified when there are new replies to a topic (you are only notified if some repplies to something you wrote.) That means you read something and have to go back to it regularly to see if there are new replies. That doesn’t work at all.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, I’d like it to be a watch topic, or similar.

      that's interesting, but there are no comments yet as it was just posted. I would like to be notified when it starts to get some discussion

  • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 months ago

    Idk if it’s my lemmy client (eternity) or instance (lemmy.sdf.org) but it seems like “saved posts” doesn’t work for me :/ so if I ever need to keep one, I open it in my browser and leave the tab open forever (because I will never come back to it).

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      10 months ago

      I open it in my browser and leave the tab open forever (because I will never come back to it).

      I do this too, to a degree, but have you tried bookmarking in your browser more? I have and it’s been pretty nice for maintaining this habit without having a tab perpetually open (I write as I have like 10+ tabs perpetually open that I swear I’ll get back to eventually).

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        10 months ago

        Honestly, I exaggerated for humor. Eventually I do get all my tabs closed, either by reading them (or whatever), or sometimes they don’t interest me anymore. My tabs are basically a queue (a stack actually!) of things to do

  • zecg@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    That’s why I save everything into my “Note to self” encrypted Signal blob. It’s searchable and you can improvise tags by just writing words