Closetab.email Reviews and details

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• Ask HN: How do you save web articles for later reading?

  I wrote a browser extension that will send weekly digest of bookmarked links to complete your reading list. It's open sourced at https://github.com/joelewis/readmelater I used to have a hosted version running at https://closetab.email but couldn't keep it running. Will look into hosting it again :). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What would improve your bookmarking experience?

  Checkout this project - https://github.com/joelewis/readmelater I used to have a hosted version at https://closetab.email - I'll have to re-host the app again. But it should solve the "bookmarks going into abyss" problem. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Ideas That Have Been Beaten to Death

  I found my problem with bookmarks a couple of years back and wrote a manifesto on what I expect out of an ideal bookmarking system - https://github.com/joelewis/readmelater I went on to build a version of that vision and it's live at https://closetab.email TLDR: Bookmarks shouldn't be an endless abyss of forgotten links. I wanted a bookmarking system that remembers links that I wanted to read later and make them... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have for HNers in 2021?

  Https://closetab.email - delivers a digest of your bookmarks to your inbox every monday. Helps me defer content from HN turning into a bunch of unclosed tabs in my browser. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• I built my first big side-project

  Great one. Planning to write one such for my own service that I built - https://closetab.email (delivers a weekly digest of bookmarks to my inbox, every monday morning) Because the biggest problem with bookmarking is forgetting it forever after ;). - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Inbox Zero Using Getpocket

  I use a slightly different strategy. I made https://closetab.email so that a weekly digest of my bookmarks are delivered to my inbox, every monday. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• After 3 years mozilla still did not open source pocket

  Https://closetab.email is an open source bookmarking system, built for people who bookmark links and forget them forever. It automatically delivers an email digest of bookmarked links every monday to your inbox. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• I closed a lot of browser tabs

  You hit the nail. Yes bookmarking is broke. Most bookmarking services act as dumb buckets of information. Like an endless abyss of links that I'll never return to. That's why I made https://closetab.email - This one delivers a digest of links from my bookmarks straight to my inbox, every monday. This way I end up consuming them eventually and also close tabs a bit more confidently, knowing I'll come back to it later. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• I closed a lot of browser tabs

  I built https://closetab.email specifically for this problem. I set a timer within which I'd like to read the tab, and then close it. The extension emails me a digest of all these tabs, once a week - until I either finish reading it or the timeout is reached. Works like charm for me. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Examples of email-first projects or startups

  Https://closetab.email - delivers your bookmarks to email every monday, so that your bookmarks don’t go into an endless abyss. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: How many bookmarks do you have in the browser?

  I built https://closetab.email to periodically email me links from my bookmarks, so that I end up consuming them eventually. That’s my trick and it’s keeping my bookmarks in check :). - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

  I found myself ending up with 50+ browser tabs regularly - full of tabs I want to read later. So I made https://closetab.email that lets me mark and close those tabs. They all get delivered to my inbox every monday. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

  I made a chrome extension that lets me close tabs that I want to read later & delivers them to my inbox every monday - https://closetab.email I also made my blog sync with my google docs - https://hexo.press I knew both of those would be helpful for others as well, so I made a service out of each of them and open sourced the code - https://github.com/joelewis. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• When the Tab Comes Due: Challenges in the Cost Structure of Browser Tab Usage

  One more shameless plug, I actually built a chrome extension that helps you close tabs you want to read later and deliver them to your inbox. Helps you close tabs confidently, knowing it's not lost forever. https://closetab.email. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago