When Omnivore shut down last year, I started looking for alternatives.

Since then, I’ve tried Wallabag (a commendable open source project that’s too unpolished for my taste), Raindrop (beautiful, but ultimately too complex for my simple needs) and Anybox (very similar to Raindrop).

None of them worked for me. I kept using Raindrop because it was not bad, but it’s not lovable either.

But today I found something…

Someone mentioned GoodLinks on a Reddit comment (of course it was Reddit) and after checking their website and a couple of video reviews to make sure I was not throwing my money away, I bit the bullet and bought it (it’s just €10, but I love drama).

This thing is exactly what I was looking for. It does a few things, very well.

What I wanted was:

  • a simple inbox to throw things I’d like to read, with optional tagging
  • combined with a nice reader experience with highlighting + notes
  • full text search of all articles
  • and reasonable ways of getting my notes out to a notes app (NotePlan in my case)

That last point is where most tools failed. But GoodLinks has great support for Shortcuts app. It took me 5 minutes to set up a nice workflow to get my highlights and notes into NotePlan, with zero coding.

The only negatives: only works on Apple platforms, and it does not have a trial version. Both are things I can live with, and I’m really glad I found this app.

Take a look at it at goodlinks.app

Hope it helps!