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Notion as read-it-later app

I’ve recently begun using Notion as my read later app.

I’ve created a page with a basic database, and Notion’s excellent Share Sheet extension sends web pages from Safari to this database perfectly. Same for the Notion extension for Firefox on the Mac. I just wish both extensions had the ability to edit properties inline so I could add tags right there. This is what my reading list page looks like (the earlier articles have better tagging):

I’m impressed with Notion’s ability to extract text from a web page – it seems to work as well as Instapaper and Pocket, my main read-later services so far. It’s also a pretty good reading experience:

And just like with Instapaper and Pocket, I can export my database to a CSV so I have my URLs in an open format on my hard drive, and not locked away in a closed service. This limitation was what kept me from using Evernote for this: