A sign of a good tool is that you don’t notice it - one year with wallabag

A year ago in June, 2025, when Mozilla shut down Pocket, I took a look at the alternatives and ended up choosing wallabag. I’ve been using it daily ever since. I recently received an email that my yearly subscription is coming to an end and if I’m still enjoying it, I should resubscribe. First of all, how awesome it is that they are not relying on people forgetting to cancel their subscriptions as a way to make money (as so many subscription services these days unfortunately do). Second, I realised how little I’ve been thinking about wallabag since last summer. How I use wallabag I was asked in Mastodon how I use wallabag daily so here are my main use cases: First use case is to capture good articles I want to make notes about when I'm reading them on mobile or tablet — or when I’m too tired after a long day to think but I’m relaxing by reading. That way, wallabag offers me a good place to find all of them when I sit down on my laptop to make notes. Usually I clear up my queue of…