{"database": "pelican", "table": "content", "rows": [["ryan", "musings", "With the announced [demise of Pocket by\nMozilla](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket) I needed to\nmigrate all of my saved articles to 'something else' by the end of the month.\nI've actually tried to migrate from Pocket a few times over the years. I\nlanded on [Instapaper](https://www.instapaper.com/) for a while, but it never\nreally clicked for me. I tried a service called\n[Devmarks](https://devmarks.io/) that [Adam G\nHill](https://indieweb.social/@adamghill) runs, and I really liked it, but for\nwhatever reason I stopped using it. I had also previously tried\n[Raindrop.io](https://Raindrop.io/) ... and I'm not really sure what drove me\naway from it, but it didn't stick for me at the time.\n\nSince I didn't have a choice about Pocket I did a bit of purusing my options,\nand finally landed on Raindrop.io again. The process of migration is pretty\npainless. I just export out the links from Pocket and then import them into\nRaindrop. No fuss ... no muss. Raindrop even checks for duplicates and allows\nyou to not import them!\n\nSo, I imported everything (all 11,500+ articles!) and started to incorporate\nRaindrop into my workflow. This basically just means saving things to Raindrop\ninstead of pocket, and then checking Raindrop instead of Pocket every week to\nmake sure I'm all caught up on my articles to read.\n\nOver the last weekend I was looking at how all of the imported items in\nRaindrop were put into the 'archive' collection and decided that I could\nprobably do something about putting them into proper collections.\n\nWith the help of Claude Code, I was able to put them into better collections.\nThere were some stragglers and I decided that I could categorize them on my\nown (there were less than 100).\n\nI started going through these last ones I kept coming across articles for\niOS7, or an app that I think I liked in 2015 but isn't on the App store\nanymore. I came across [this article](https://www.inc.com/graham-winfrey/what-\nthe-internet-of-things-will-look-like-in-2025.html) (which I also\n[tooted](https://mastodon.social/@ryancheley/114689388596371458) about on\nMastadon) from September 4, 2014 with the title `What the Internet of Things\nWill Look Like in 2025 (Infographic)`. It's wildly naive, but a fun read\nnonetheless.\n\nNeedless to say it was the only gem in the 100 articles that I went through. I\nhad so many saved articles that aren't 'Evergreen'. I then started looking at\nsome of the articles that had been categorized and came across stuff for\nDjango 1.11, Python 3.8, and other older stuff.\n\nThese were great articles when I read them, but I don't know that I **need**\nthem now. In fact, when I looked at my general workflow for using any read-it-\nlater service, I essentially save it to read later. If it's sitting in my\nread-it-later service for more than 4 weeks I'll either delete or just archive\nit.\n\nSo really, unless I'm planning on _doing_ something with these articles, I'm\nnot sure that I need to keep them. And that's when it hit me ... I can just\ndelete them. All of them. I don't need to keep them. If they are truly\nimpactful, I can write up something about them in Obsidian. If I really think\nsomeone else will get something out of my reaction I can write it up and post\nit. But, if I'm being honest with myself, this is just digital clutter that\nisn't \"sparking\" any joy for me.\n\nSo, just like that, I went from having 11,000+ links to having 0. And I have\n[no ragrets](https://inkcredibletattoovb.com/bad-tattoos-no-ragerts/).\n\nI'm sure there's some deeper story here about physical things and just letting\nthem go as well, and maybe I'll be able to apply that to my non-digital life,\nbut for now, I'm just going to revel in the fact that I was able to offload\nthis thing and just not ... care? Be sad? I'm not sure what the correct term\nwould be here.\n\nRegardless, it was a good exercise to have gone through, and I'm glad I did.\n\n", "2025-06-19", "migrating-to-raindrop-io", "With the announced [demise of Pocket by\nMozilla](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket) I needed to\nmigrate all of my saved articles to 'something else' by the end of the month.\nI've actually tried to migrate from Pocket a few times over the years. I\nlanded on [Instapaper](https://www.instapaper.com/) for a while, but it never\nreally \u2026\n\n", "Migrating to Raindrop.io", "https://www.ryancheley.com/2025/06/19/migrating-to-raindrop-io/"]], "columns": ["author", "category", "content", "published_date", "slug", "summary", "title", "url"], "primary_keys": ["slug"], "primary_key_values": ["migrating-to-raindrop-io"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.811312347650528}