Did anyone else give up on article queue apps and switch back to basic text list?

I did a quick audit of my reading apps last weekend and deleted a backlog of over two hundred articles I saved over the past year.

I realized I kept installing new read-later utilities hoping a nicer UI would fix my reading habits. I dropped all of them and started keeping a dead simple text document on my desktop for links I actually plan to finish during the weekend.

Having just two or three links on a clean document makes it way easier to focus compared to a massive app inbox.

What setup has actually worked for you to keep your saved reading list manageable?