What people use it for
Your Pocket export is not a graveyard.
Pocket shut down in 2025 and gave everyone a deadline: download a ZIP of CSV files or lose the lot. If you made the deadline, you own a spreadsheet of titles and links: a list of everything you meant to keep, in a format built for nothing. The reading history is in there. The text is not. And every month that file sits on a disk, more of its links quietly die.
Find the file you already saved
Unzip your Pocket export and look for part_000000.csv. That is the whole library: title, link, the date you saved it, your tags. An older export made before the shutdown announcement is a single ril_export.html; both work.
Upload it
Dashboard → Import → Pocket, choose the file. Commas in titles, quoted fields, pipe-separated tags: the messy realities of that CSV are handled, and anything that was never a web page (bookmarklets, ftp links) is counted and reported rather than silently dropped.
Your history stays yours
The save dates come across exactly. A 2019 save shows as 2019, not as the day you imported. Tags survive as tags. The decade of reading history Pocket almost took with it stays in order.
The text comes back, and becomes answerable
For every imported link, Norget fetches and archives the readable text of the page as it stands today. From then on the archive answers questions, like "what did I save about burnout?", quoting the passages it came from, cited back to your own saves.
What this does not do
Honest limits: Norget archives what the live web still serves. A page that died between Pocket and now cannot be resurrected from a CSV that never contained its text; those rows import as link-and-title only, which is exactly the failure Norget exists to stop repeating. The free plan holds 100 saves; a real Pocket library usually needs the paid plan (5,000 saves, $6 a month or $60 a year). Import them once, and the next shutdown, anyone's, costs you nothing: everything exports back out as JSON, archived text included.
Questions
- Pocket gave me several CSV files. Which one do I upload?
- Start with part_000000.csv; if your library was large there may be part_000001 and so on; upload each in turn. Every file reports its own counts, and re-uploading a file skips the links you already have rather than duplicating them.
- What happens to links that are already dead?
- They import (title, link, date, tags) but there is no text left to archive, so they are findable by title and never quotable. Norget will not pretend otherwise. For everything still alive, the full text is stored the day you import, so it cannot happen again.
- I missed the export deadline. Can Norget recover my Pocket data?
- No, and honesty matters more than a hopeful answer here: Pocket deleted the data, and nothing can bring it back. What Norget offers is that this never happens to you again: the text of everything you save lives in your archive, and the whole archive exports as JSON whenever you want it.
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