Ask HN: What is the best way to save links for later?

Well, I have a big problem.

I need to real save several links per day, no matter if the site goes down, dissapears or the article gets edited.

I tried Evernote Web Clipper: good, but very limited. Even with a paid account I get only 1GB which is not enough.

The example page I tried to save has 3.2MB (no cache). With a html2pdf solution I got a 1.5MB PDF, which is good, but I think there might be a better solution.

A tool that only saves the URL is excluded.

Do you have any idea related to this?

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stevejalim 12y ago ↗

Tried an archival account at http://pinboard.in ?

adrian_pop 12y ago ↗

Very interesting, thanks. I knew about pinboard but not about their archival account.

guyinblackshirt 12y ago ↗

^ that's the one I use too

bprager 12y ago ↗

I use Readability "Read later" a lot. Plug-ins for almost any browser.

swGooF 12y ago ↗

http://kippt.com might be a good site to look at. They store the website contents on the kippt site.

kineticfocus 12y ago ↗

For firefox: http://maf.mozdev.org/ ...saves sites into a single 'MAFF' file, adds MHT Support to the browser

...and it's open source ('hg clone http://hg.mozdev.org/maf/' )

zalew 12y ago ↗

http://getpocket.com/

bdevine 12y ago ↗

If you're not aware of it, wget[1] allows you to save pages, whole sites, file types, etc.

[1] http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/the-ultimate-wget-downlo...

rootsofallevil 12y ago ↗

I just rolled my own to just save the URL and then convert it to a mobi file using Calibre.

I guess it could be easily edited to do the conversion there and then, rather than wait, which is what it does at the moment.

It will also email the converted ebooks to your kindle, so every 2 weeks i realize that i find too many things interesting to read.

aufreak3 12y ago ↗

- Print to PDF. With articles from online magazines, choosing "Print" to get all pages on page and then Print to PDF is my current preferred snapshotting. It is easily searched using spotlight on my mac.

- Instapaper still works well for me.

- Of late I've also been using archive.is to snapshot pages. This is useful for article permalinks to cite for research, in case the original url disappears or its content changes after the conclusion of said research.