Short on time? Read it later!
If your life is anything like mine, you probably find yourself sitting down to your computer in the morning and trying to race through email while browsing your feeds and maybe — just maybe — thinking up something to write about on your own blog. In that precious hour or so, you don’t always have time to read the things that capture your interest, but despite your best intentions of revisiting the blog or website you somehow always forget to do so.
That’s why I love the Read it Later addon for Firefox. One click on the browser bar is all it takes to add something to your queue to revisit later, when you’ve got time. Later, when you’ve got a few free moments, you simply click on another button to read something from your list. (That same click removes it from your queue, so you don’t need to worry about the reading list getting unmanageable.)
But what if you don’t have Firefox?
Steve Reubel just pointed me to a free website that pretty much does the same thing as that add-on: InstaPaper. Register and drag their button to your browser bar, then click on it when you’re browsing to add things to your reading list. When you’ve got the time, return to their website and read the “newspaper” you’ve created for yourself.
Sweet!
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That is awesome. I always get called away from the computer and this will be a handy tool to have.
Thanks!
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That’s really a good idea. I usually bookmark a page, then it gets lost in my huge bookmark folder and I don’t find it until months later by which time I can’t remember why I bookmarked that particular page.
That always drives me nuts, too. Then I spend forever organizing my bookmarks only to find that half the sites are no longer online.
I. Hate. That.
There’s a similar addon for Firefox called Scrapbook which essentially lets you do the same thing but it actually saves the page so you can look at it offline. I noticed that Read It Later’s offline reader is “experimental”.
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