Why aren’t more people talking about @omnivore as a read it later service?
It’s free, open source, works more reliably than Pocket or Instapaper, zero limitations like Matter - all entirely free even if you use their server. Self-hosting totally an option too.
@wiredfire Just switched to it from Pocket after I read they are dropping the integration with my Kobo e-reader soon. So far absolutely impressed, it does all I need.
@Fiddler@omnivore Just heard about the Kobo feature being dropped earlier today. Turns out someone's been working on letting Omnivore be a "drop-in" replacement 😁
@wiredfire@Fiddler@omnivore That sounds great! #kobo integration is the only reason I use #pocket and I'll really miss it so I'm looking for an alternative.
@wiredfire@ellane I’ve been a big Pocket user but Omnivore has taken its place. I don’t need the bells and whistles and Omnivore has great integration with Obsidian too.
@jcosky@ellane same re: Pocket plus they have been actively removing features from their iPhone app which is a weird move. I’ve not used Obsidian before but thinking I should check it out 😁
@wiredfire the one thing that really got me stuck to using Matter is the great text-to-speech conversion. Voices are close to natural human ones and the progress of my listening is tracked on the text as well, so I can easily switch back and forth. Is this something that @omnivore supports or is planning to?
@wiredfire@omnivore I never understand how people are using this kind of apps.
Totally not working with my brain - if I didn’t read something now, I’ll never came back to this.
@fox@omnivore that’s fair 😊 For me it has two uses. Firstly is when I’m scrolling my RSS feeds and catch something interesting but a longer read than I have time for I’ll throw it at an app like this. Second is for when I might want to refer to an article again later. I can add it, tag it for context, and find it again later when it comes up.
@wiredfire@omnivore It’s great. It took me a while because the Mac app still looks like an alpha and I opened that first, but on the web & iPhone it’s really good.
@wiredfire I’ve been using it for a couple months now, and it’s been great! Super easy to export notes and highlights if you want to keep them in #logseq or another notetaking app too!
@omnivore@Suzie97 Matter's text to speach I'd say is fractionally better, a little more natural sounding, but there's very little in it. Certainly nothing that's realistically going to sway someone.
@wiredfire@omnivore I did use matter’s text to speech before it was locked on a paywall. sounded pretty unnatural to me. Not sure if they’ve improved it now. But the ultra realistic voice option in omnivore is just fantastic.
@Suzie97@omnivore considering it’s entirely without charge as well is brilliant. I’m not sure how Matter and others can hope to compete with FOSS when this is the quality we’re getting.
@wiredfire@omnivore Makes sense. Matter still has its social media features which due to being Twitter exclusive I've never tried. Not sure if that the team actually treats it as something that adds value or just a gimmick.
@Suzie97@omnivore problem is linking your service to some centralised platform puts you at their mercy, as a great many have recently found with Twitter and Reddit!
@ktnjared you’re welcome! Happy to spread some noise about it. For years it’s been Pocket or Instapaper, then recently Matter, as options but they all have their challenges. Omnivore is at least as good as each of them, with zero paywalled features or limits.
Really pulls the rug from Matter’s relatively recently developed business model 😅 Pocket & Instapaper at least have their legacy to trade on, I guess?
@wiredfire I’ve never heard of it. Now I just need to figure out if there is a clean way to export from the managed service to self-hosted for when they get that figured out.
@finner@Jeff well worth looking at. I’m kinda picky with my read later apps and never found on that really fit. This one is fantastic and being FOSS is even better!
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