How do you Read it Later?

Manton writes of Micro.blog’s Bookmarks:

The Bookmarks → Links tab in Micro.blog Premium is practically unknown, but so useful. It archives a copy of everything you link to! HTML, CSS, everything.

I didn’t know that’s what it did. The button for Links was there, but I never looked into it. All the links I ever linked to. Indexed, searchable, and apparently also archived as if I bookmarked them myself. I can see how this can be useful.

I’ve discussed Micro.blog’s Bookmarks, which is a read-it-later feature, before. It comes with similar features you’d expect from such a service, like tagging. For me, this is a simple but essential part of my workflow. In general, I save two kinds of texts: those that I want to read later (and potentially write about), and those I use as a quick syncing option between my phones.

As I was using the bathroom the other day, reading through some of those (maybe this should be another category?), I did some house cleaning and removed a bunch of these. The reason I bother is mostly to keep it fresh and inviting. As any person who ever used a to-do list would tell you, there’s nothing that drains your motivation as quickly as an endless to-do list — which these saved articles basically are. I was also wondering if there’s a better way to sort those somehow, which raised the question of how other people do it.

Tagging is an option, and I tried tagging at some point, but it turned out to be just noise in the end since everything I save is potentially a post waiting to be written (the other option, for syncing, means the articles get deleted as soon as I have them on my other device). Then I thought maybe I should just create blog drafts for whatever I want to write, but that would introduce friction with the app that I don’t want to have. It would also be useful to have an option to save these to the Internet Archive, but I can see why this would be an issue quickly.

So the question remains. How do other people use read-it-later services/apps, if they still do?