Quick answer: Tap the three-dot menu on the post or comment and choose Save. Find your saves on your profile, under Saved. Reddit only shows roughly your most recent 1,000 saved items, so keep anything important somewhere searchable too.
Reddit is full of answers you can't find anywhere else: the exact fix for a weird error, an honest review, a comment that explains something better than any article. Reddit's own Save button is the obvious way to keep them. It has a few limits worth knowing first.
Save a post or a comment
On a post, tap the three-dot menu and choose Save. For a single comment, which is often the most useful part, tap the three dots on that comment and choose Save. Saved items are private.
Find what you saved
Tap your profile picture, open your profile, and go to Saved. Posts and comments are listed together, newest first. You can unsave anything from the same menu.
The limits nobody mentions
- Old saves fall off the list. Reddit only shows roughly your most recent 1,000 saved items. Older ones are still saved, but you can't scroll back to them.
- Deleted means gone. If the author deletes their post or a moderator removes it, your save points at nothing.
- No search. You can't search your saved list. If you don't remember roughly when you saved something, you're scrolling.
Keep the ones that matter outside Reddit
For anything you'll need again, a fix, a recommendation, a long explanation, save it somewhere searchable as well. Tap Share and send the link to Snugit. The post title comes with it, so you can search "router" or "visa" months later and it's there, alongside the rest of your links and notes.
If the value is in the text and you're worried it'll vanish, copy the key paragraph into a note (or screenshot it) so the words survive even if the thread doesn't.
A quick habit that helps
When you save something, ask: "Will I need this, or did I just enjoy it?" Enjoyed it: Reddit's Save is fine. Need it: save it where you can search. That one question keeps both lists useful.
Get Snugit to keep the Reddit answers you'll need again, searchable by what they're about.