Notes on attention,
and the things we save.
Pick one. All under ten minutes.
Practical guides and one essay, each about what happens to the things you save.
Pocket shut down. Here’s where to move your saved articles.
Mozilla shut Pocket in July 2025 and began deleting the archive in November. What happened, what you can still recover, and where to move your reading list.
Read the guideWhy your read-it-later list keeps growing
Saving takes two seconds. Reading takes forty minutes. Every app in the category is built for the two seconds — which is why your backlog never shrinks.
Read the essayHow to actually listen to the articles you saved
Reading needs your eyes and your hands. Listening doesn’t. A practical guide to turning a backlog of saved articles into something you finish on a commute.
Read the guideNew here? Read them in this order.
- Pocket shut down. Here’s where to move your saved articles.For anyone who found out late. The recovery routes that still work, the ones that closed, and an honest read on the other apps — including the ones that are a better fit than this is.8 min read
- Your Watch Later list has four hundred videos. Here’s how to clear it.The biggest saved-and-never-finished pile most people own is not in a reading app — it is on YouTube. The cleanup that works, and the reason it stops working in a month.7 min read
- Why your read-it-later list keeps growingThe argument the whole product rests on. The list is not a discipline problem and no amount of tagging will fix it, because the gap is between how long saving takes and how long reading takes.4 min read
- How to actually listen to the articles you savedThe practical one. What genuinely works today for getting through a backlog on a commute, tools that are not ours included, and where each of them falls down.4 min read
Narrow on purpose. No content calendar.
Pieces appear when there is something worth saying, which is rarer than a publishing schedule would suggest.
What it covers
- What happens to the things you save and don’t read
- The read-it-later apps that keep shutting down
- Why a backlog grows no matter which one you use
- The small number of methods that genuinely help
What it won’t
- Productivity systems
- Whatever is trending
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A few minutes at a time.
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