Link Cards vs. Text Notes: Make "Read Later" Actually Happen

Most bookmarking fails for a boring reason: you save things and never open them again. MyNav approaches it with two card types and three small habits — keep what matters in sight, make it easy to throw out what doesn't.

Two card types, two jobs

When you create a card you pick a type:

Link card (LINK) — a URL plus title and site icon. For pages you return to constantly: dashboards, docs, admin panels, daily tools.

Text note (NOTE) — a block of text with an optional source URL. For when the content matters more than the link: a command, a config value, a quote, an address someone pasted to you.

The difference is not cosmetic. A link card takes you somewhere; a note is read in place, with no new tab. That is why short-lived information works better as a note.

Notes: write the word you will search for later

Every card has a note field, and notes are included in search matching.

That rule matters because the word you type is rarely the word in the title.

• The card says "Expense portal", you search "receipt" → put "receipt" in the note
• The card says "Linear", you remember it as "the backlog tool" → note it
• The title is a colleague's name, but you think of the project → same fix

The principle: write the word your future self will type in three months, not a copy of the title.

Pinning: keep three to five things on top

Pinned cards ignore sorting and always sit first. It is easy to overuse — pin more than eight and you have effectively pinned nothing.

A usable rule: pin only what you open at least once a day. Mail, calendar, task board, company admin — usually four or five items. Everything else can live in the normal order.

Drag to order, and the order follows your account

Cards and folders can be dragged into any order. That order is stored with your account, not in the browser, so a different computer shows the same arrangement.

Ordering is not a one-time chore. Whenever you catch yourself scrolling down a list to find something, that is the signal to drag it up.

Bulk actions: stop cleaning one card at a time

Switch on selection mode from the toolbar, pick several cards, then move or delete them together. When you finally clean out a year of old saves, this is where most of the clicks disappear.

It pairs well with filtering: type a keyword (an old project name, say), select everything that comes back, move or delete it, then clear the search box.

Quotas: 100 is not a punishment

The free plan holds 100 cards and 10 folders; Pro has no limit. The number is deliberately just short of comfortable — most people's genuinely useful bookmarks land between 60 and 120, and hitting the ceiling forces one honest pass.

If you are past 100 and still growing, it usually means one of two things: you are using it as a web archive (keep the conclusion as a note instead), or you actually need Pro.

A five-minute weekly routine

Once a week, in this order: delete what you have not opened → pin the one you keep hunting for → write notes on three new cards. Do that for a month and your start page will quietly outperform any bookmarks bar.