{"uri":"at://did:plc:qrmtco7xjszr76cls33gsiso/network.cosmik.card/3mwxnob2jyl2b","cid":"bafyreiewih5eb5xurttp32seg7nhbyx4j5yg7632hehgmkfyjgyrbykgsi","value":{"type":"URL","$type":"network.cosmik.card","content":{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frjyb4_4Rlg","$type":"network.cosmik.card#urlContent","metadata":{"type":"video","$type":"network.cosmik.card#urlMetadata","title":"\"Save for Later\" Has No Later","author":"Interface Studies","imageUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/frjyb4_4Rlg/maxresdefault.jpg","siteName":"YouTube","description":"Join \"Interface Studies\" to help make more videos. Your support keeps new content coming. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqv7gk4p_rB4nRz0j7B5yFA/join\n\nAlmost every app today has a bookmark button. Almost none of them has a later.\n\nThis video follows the save-for-later pattern from a 1983 study of office desks, through the browser's bookmarks bar and the hidden menu that outlived it, to the Watch Later lists we never open. \n\n--------------------------\nSubscribe on Substack: https://interfacestudies.substack.com/\n\nHappy to jump on a call if it'd be useful: design strategy, experience design, critique, feedback. https://intro.co/salehkayyali\n\nElsewhere: \nX: https://x.com/mskayyali\nBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mskayyali.com\n---------------------------\n\nCHAPTERS\n\n[0:00] The ribbon and the promise\n[1:32] The desk: finding and reminding\n[2:20] The browser had both answers\n[4:32] The failure, measured\n[5:19] Cause one: nothing arrives\n[6:39] Cause two: the save already paid you\n[7:50] Cause three: the wanting decays\n[11:00] Why nothing gets fixed\n[12:27] Designing for later\n[16:05] A note on AI\n[16:46] The second job\n\nFURTHER READING: \n\n- How do people organize their desks? (1983): https://ia601504.us.archive.org/26/items/perm1_20220428_0403/Howdesks.pdf\n- Information Archiving with Bookmarks (1998): https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/public_user/RMB/papers/p23.pdf \n- Out of sight and out of mind: Bookmarks are created but not used (2021): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0961000620949652\n- Highbrow Films Gather Dust (2009):https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/07-099_00df6c8e-2b29-43ff-8c7a-55bfe3906726.pdf\n- Doing It Now or Later (1999): https://econweb.ucsd.edu/~jandreon/Econ264/papers/O'Donoghue%20Rabin%20AER%201999.pdf\n- Saving-Enhanced Memory (2015):https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797614559285\n- When Online Content Disappears (Pew Research, 2024):  https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/\n- An Article Has A Lifespan Of 37 Days (Fast Company, 2013): https://www.fastcompany.com/3020946/an-article-has-a-lifespan-of-37-days-and-other-findings-from-pocket\n- My save to read it later habits (Medium, 2013; the Pocket figures): https://medium.com/@davidcafor/my-save-to-read-it-later-habits-dddaee4175f0\n- New Gmail now generally available (Google, 2018; snooze):  https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2018/07/new-gmail-ga.html\n- Save it for Later (Slack help docs):  https://slack.com/help/articles/13453851074067-Save-it-for-Later\n- New Feature: Reminders (Raindrop blog): https://blog.raindrop.io/new-feature-reminders-a2d260408b74/ — help doc: https://help.raindrop.io/reminders\n- Reviewing Your Highlights (Readwise docs): https://docs.readwise.io/readwise/docs/faqs/reviewing-highlights\n- mymind: https://mymind.com/ — Serendipity: https://mymind.helpscoutdocs.com/article/44-rediscovering-things-with-serendipity","publishedDate":"2026-07-10T23:19:21.000Z"}},"createdAt":"2026-10-03T10:14:01.769Z"}}