How do I organize my saved posts on Reddit?

Reddit's help center gives two routes. On reddit.com, click the overflow menu on the post, then Save; to find it later, go to your profile and click the Saved tab. In the iOS and Android apps, tap the overflow menu at the top right of the post and tap Save in the pop-up. To see your saves there, open your profile page, tap the three-line menu near the top right and choose Saved.

Saving takes one tap, which is why the list grows fast. A typical Saved tab mixes a long answer about index funds, tips for a first marathon, a recipe and a dozen posts you no longer remember choosing. The posts are kept. What you took from each one is written nowhere, and the best part of many Reddit posts is a reply three screens down.

The subreddit name hints at the subject: a post from r/personalfinance is probably about money. It does not answer the question you will have in six months, which is what rule that post laid out and whether you ever followed it.

1. Open Saved: on reddit.com, your profile, then the Saved tab; in the app, your profile, the three-line menu, then Saved.
2. Copy the post's address: open the post in your browser and copy the address from the address bar, the one that starts with reddit.com/r/. A redd.it short link is not supported, so paste the full reddit.com address.
3. Paste it into scrollandlearn: open the app, tap Add and paste the link. The post's title and body are read and written into a lesson, usually within a minute.
4. Read what came back: a core idea in one line, key points and Remember this, plus Try this when there is something to do. The link back to the Reddit post stays on the lesson.
5. Bring the best comment along: replies are not read, so if the answer you saved the post for was in a comment, write its point as My takeaway in your own words.
6. Check the topic: the lesson files itself under a topic such as Money habits. Tap Change to move it, and when the app suggests Group topics for a few small ones, you decide.
7. Share from your browser next time: on iPhone, tap Add to Shortcuts in scrollandlearn once, then, with the post open on reddit.com, use your browser's Share button and pick the Shortcut. On Android, install scrollandlearn from Chrome first (Install and create shortcut in Chrome's menu), then share the page from Chrome and choose it. On a computer, click Add and paste.

Here is an example of the lesson a long text post in a personal finance community becomes. It illustrates what a lesson keeps from a post that argues a case: the argument and the line worth remembering. The example shows the format and is not financial advice.

Reddit is mostly words, which suits a tool that reads words. What gets read is narrow, though, and worth knowing before you paste.

• Text posts: the title and body become the lesson. Length doesn't matter; a three-line answer works as well as a long write-up.
• Link posts: when a post points to an article, only its title is read. The article is not opened, so the lesson has a headline and little else. Save the post where someone wrote the explanation out, or a text post that discusses the article.
• Comments: replies are not read. A post that asks a question in its body and gets the answers below gives a lesson about the question.
• Images and galleries: images in a Reddit post are not read, including words printed on them. On Instagram, TikTok photo posts, X, Threads and LinkedIn printed text on images is read; on Reddit it is not.
• Videos: when the title and text together are under 300 characters, a Reddit video is read from Reddit's own captions if it has them, and the lesson is written from what is said; without captions, the title and text make the lesson. With 300 characters or more, the title and text are the lesson and the captions are not read.
• redd.it links: short redd.it links are not supported. Paste the full reddit.com address.
• Removed or private posts: deleted posts, removed posts and posts in private communities can't be read from the link.

A Reddit answer sticks with you because it is specific: a number, a rule of thumb, ten years of someone's experience in four paragraphs. Specific things also fade first. Today's quiz brings each lesson back with a question written from it, for this example why index funds beat picking stocks for most people. Answer it silently, tap Show answer, then grade it.

Grade Forgot and the lesson is back on tomorrow's quiz with its schedule reset. Kind of returns it after 4 days. Knew it holds it for 14 days, and each further Knew it widens the gap, to 35, 88 and 219 days and then a full year.

Things to try turns advice into a checklist: keep the Try this items you mean to act on and tick each one off when it is done. For each topic, the knowledge score shows the share of due lessons you remembered, judged by your last grade. It appears once the first lesson in the topic comes up for a quiz, and a lesson that came due without an answer counts against it, so a neglected topic can read 0%. The topic's big picture pulls every lesson in it into one short summary, which reads like the answer to the question you kept asking Reddit.

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• Long first-person write-ups, the 'what I learned in five years of...' kind. The method is in the body, where it gets read.
• Questions the poster later answered in an edit to the post. The edit is part of the body, so the answer comes along.
• Guides a community keeps pointing newcomers to, when they are text posts.
• Skip link posts unless the title says it all; the page behind them is not opened.
• Skip memes and image posts. Images are not read, so all a lesson gets is the post's title.
• Paste soon after saving. Posts get deleted and removed, and an old save may no longer be readable.