Wallabag Anyone?
Always wanted a way to get the full content from websites without all the extra stuff and have a way to take it with me on a portable device without a data plan. Wallabag to the rescue.
Plus, I don’t want too many central orgs like google/fb/twitter/NSA/GCHQ/KGB/Mom knowing what I was reading.
Wallabag is like read-it-later. Once setup (and the setup is much like Nextcloud), then almost any webpage I’m viewing inside a browser can be grabbed for later using “cntl-alt-s” – That tells a browser plugin to tell Wallabag to save that URL for reading later. Great for longer Ars or Krebs on Security articles. Also a great way to grab instructions for setting up something non-trivial as a record. Wallabag supports annotations, so if those instructions don’t work, we can add comments/corrections. We can also share this content with others.
Pinterest or Read-It-Later
Sorta like Read-It-Later or Pinterest, but you control it. You host it and if you host it at home, then all those recipes are still available even if the ISP internet connection is down.
Tagging and Filters
It also has a powerful tagging and filter capability. This allows later retrieval based on topic or how much time you might have to read based on the number of words in the pages.
Exporting
For me, the “export to epub” feature is the killer app. Can tag selected content from RSS feeds to have Wallabag grab all the content, then export the “unread” to an epub file, which is dropped/rsync’d/NextCloud stored and pushed to my tablet. That provides 1-2 hrs of reading material.
Export formats can be txt, xml, pdf, mobi, epub, and probably a few others.
Perhaps I missed it, but where is the search?
Other Uses?
Certainly, I’m missing some of the best features and uses for Wallabag. Just imaging all the things you can do if it was hooked up with Nextcloud? Shared reading for your work group? Shared training materials?
