Hacker News Reader

That's the same way I use bookmarks. I won't bookmark, say, Hacker News, but I will bookmark a recipe site that I know I'll want to refer to for ideas sometime down the road.

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Recipes are static text, you could just save the page (as HTML) on your device. (URLs change all the time, and website vanish) Later, the file can be found with Windows search / Spotlight.

I bookmark more dynamic pages, e.g. news articles with comments that will be around for some longer period.

A simpler UI (easy as or easier than bookmarks) for saving a page for offline viewing might help with this.

Like Reader Mode¹ in Firefox for Android? It's also planned² for the desktop version.

1: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-use-reader-mode

2: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558882

That's one of my biggest use cases: bookmarking individual recipes. That's a perfect example of something I'm not going to be looking at every day but do want a list of to browse occasionally, or to find specific ones.

You may already be aware of this but a fellow HNer operates a service I use frequently for this exact use case called historio.us. I use the chrome extension to add stuff that I might want to revisit and, when I do need to, I have historio.us as a "search engine" in the chrome omnibar.

Think of it as your own private search engine.

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