I’ve been building https://getpensive.com a bookmarking app I started after Pocket shut down.

I wanted three things Pocket didn’t offer:

1. A search-first experience

2. Integration with tools I already use (like Telegram)

3. A way to actually review saved content, with help from LLMs and spaced repetition

Still in beta, but usable. Would love to hear thoughts or your experience on building a product like this.

Just like many others, I also have this problem: it’s getting harder and harder to find the articles I’ve read later. There’s so much great content I come across every day that, in my experience, it’s rather difficult, if not impossible, to find it again by searching Google. So I started building a personal solution to keep the stuff I read searchable.

There are existing tools that try to solve this, but I have some unique requirements that pushed me to create my own. Things like Telegram integration, weekly summaries, and indexing YouTube content. More importantly, I felt the pain enough that I was motivated to work on it as a side project.

A good example is the frustration and disappointment I had with Pocket: the search functionality was terrible, and each update seemed to make the product less usable.

I’ve now got a working prototype, and I’m putting on the final touches. Let me know if you have any thoughts, or email me if you’d like to try it out.

As an alternative to YouTube I use NewPipe and I'm quite happy with it.

I also like to add "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware" by Andy Hunt It can be considered as a followup of pragmatic programmer. For me the main challenge is to how to stay relevant in days of constant change, and the best answer seems to be constant learning. So, let's learn how to learn! And this is exactly the main topic of this book.