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>reread.io is a service which sends you an email containing your forgotten Pocket links (with many config options).

And those emails will either be conveniently ignored or will land in spam folders after a while.

If you don't have the time/discipline/motivation to read a article which is in your pant pocket, reminding you about it is hardly going to help your laziness/lack of motivation.

The usage data disagrees (see his open and click-through rates).

If you don't have the time/discipline/motivation to read a article which is in your pant pocket, reminding you about it is hardly going to help your laziness/lack of motivation.

You might be right. But there's also the use case of it being just a timehop for your bookmarks vs. a read your unreads tool.

On this front -- I hate email. I'm tempted to do a pull request that creates todoist tasks for you each day. If you don't complete them it puts them back into the pool for a future date -- the last thing I need is my todo list guilt tripping me :p.

For me, it's the Inbox-Zero-Guilt, but I guess everyone has a different guilt that they are trying to avoid.

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