In memory of

Pocket

2007-2025

For eighteen years it was where the web went to be read later. Mozilla gave almost six months’ notice and a way to download everything, and on 12 November 2025 the last export window closed.4

What it taught us

The link can die. Your copy can’t.

Norget keeps the text of what you save, so it is still there after the page, or the service, is gone.

How it went

Eighteen years, five dates.

  1. 2007

    Nate Weiner starts Read It Later, the service that became Pocket.1

  2. 27 Feb 2017

    Mozilla buys Read It Later, Inc. More than 3 billion things have been saved to Pocket by then.2

  3. 22 May 2025

    Mozilla announces Pocket will close. New sign-ups and app downloads stop that day.3

  4. 8 Jul 2025

    Pocket shuts down. Pocket Web stays open for exports only.4

  5. 12 Nov 2025

    The export window closes and deletion of accounts and saved data begins.4

Link rot

38%

of webpages that existed in 2013 could no longer be reached ten years later.5

When the page moves or dies, the pointer points at nothing. Pocket closing was the same loss at a larger size: the whole list at once.

Norget saves the readable text of a page when you save it. If the link dies later, you still have the words, and you can still search them and ask about them.

If you kept your export

Bring it home.

  1. 01

    Find the file

    Unzip the export. Your library is part_000000.csv. Older exports are a single ril_export.html, and that works too.

  2. 02

    Import it

    Dashboard, then Import, then Pocket. Save dates and tags come across as they were.

  3. 03

    Norget fetches each page again

    Pages still online are saved as text you can search and ask about. Pages that have gone come in with their title and link but no page text, because the export never held it.

For new accounts

Open a free account between 11 and 19 November 2026 (UTC) and import your Pocket export, and the account holds 1,000 saves instead of 100. Once per account, for the first 500 accounts. Everything in the file is saved straight away. Norget then indexes it in the background, so a big archive becomes searchable gradually, and you can search what is ready while the rest catches up. If Pocket gave you several CSV files, combine them into one before importing.

Import your Pocket exportStep-by-step guide

If you did not export in time, the data is gone and nothing can bring it back, including Norget. What we can offer is that it does not happen to the next thing you save. How Norget compares with Pocket

#NotForget

What is the vaguest thing you remember saving?

The article you can describe but never found again. Post it with #NotForget.

Post yours on X

Opens a draft. Nothing posts until you do.

Sources

  1. 1. Pocket, About Pocket (archived), 2020.
  2. 2. Mozilla, Mozilla Acquires Pocket, 27 February 2017.
  3. 3. Mozilla, Investing in what moves the internet forward, 22 May 2025.
  4. 4. Mozilla Support, Pocket has shut down: what you need to know, updated 12 November 2025.
  5. 5. Pew Research Center, When Online Content Disappears, 17 May 2024.

Norget is not affiliated with Mozilla or Pocket.