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Who uses, recommends or left Pocket, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
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Apps On My Phone That Make Reading and Keeping Up With the News Less Bonkers-Making: Pocket and Nuzzel
A recommendations issue of her newsletter where each item carries its own labelled verdict, including things she regrets buying.
2019-10-22·annehelen.substack.com ↗
I use Pocket to save articles/links and the Kindle app on my phone to read all my books.
His Uses This interview, on the stack behind neal.fun.
2019-12-24·usesthis.com ↗
I use Pocket as a read-it-later service, but I've found that I never actually go back to read what I've saved. It seems to be write-only.
Her Uses This interview, on the machines, keyboard and apps she used as an MIT PhD student.
2012-10-05·usesthis.com ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.