![]() For example, on an iOS device, you can enable the Instapaper share extension in Safari. If you’re browsing the web on a mobile device, you can add items to your reading queue with similar ease. I’ll read this article later … when hell freezes over. With the Instapaper browser extension, you can add items to your reading queue with a single click.Īfter clicking, a saved banner will momentarily appear to confirm that Instapaper has successfully saved your article. Once the Instapaper browser extension is installed and enabled in your browser, you can click on its icon to save the current web page. The Instapaper extension is always “on” for me in Chrome (and any other browsers I use). Users of Evernote (and other similar tools) might use web clipper extensions.Ī super easy alternative, and what I typically do, is add the site (or article) to my unified reading queue with the Instapaper browser extension. Some people might leave scores of tabs open in their browser. While surfing the web, a common challenge people seem to face is where to store (or how to remember) sites, articles, etc. The original article in Instapaper’s embedded browser (iPhone X). If you’re not satisfied with the offline formatting of an article, you can open the story in the embedded browser or an external one (assuming you have an Internet connection). In some cases, images may be missing, for example. Instapaper is better at reformatting some content sources than others. A blog post in Instapaper’s simplified formatting (iPhone X). Moreover, the app simplifies the layout and formatting to make each article easier to read. The beauty of Instapaper is that it not only adds each post to your queue but also downloads it for offline reading. I rarely read blog posts as they come in instead, I add them to my Instapaper reading queue. ![]() If I see a post in Feedly that I want to add to my reading queue, I open it and click or press on the Instapaper icon, as shown in the screenshot below. The Today view in the Feedly iOS app (iPhone X). The Today view of my unread posts in the Feedly web app. The web app and the mobile app are both excellent tools for reviewing your blog feeds. The pro version raises that limit to 1,000 and adds numerous advanced features (notes, highlighting, power search, integrations, and more). The free version has a robust feature set and can manage up to 100 sources. Like chocolate and peanut butter, Feedly and Instapaper go well together.įeedly is a fantastic RSS reader. To manage my blog feeds, I use a combination of Feedly and Instapaper. ![]() I subscribe to around 90 blogs! I read only a small subset of the posts in the various feeds, but still, that is a lot of content to churn through on a daily basis (over 100 posts per day). Web content, including blog posts, is probably the most classic and obvious use for Instapaper. In fact, I use Instapaper even for sources that are not natively supported by the app (the most obvious ones being PDFs and newsletters).īelow is a look at how I “integrate” each content type into a unified reading queue in Instapaper. My trick for solving this was to expand my use of Instapaper and create a unified reading queue for ALL of my content sources. The trouble for me was that I got so habituated to looking only at Instapaper for my next item to read that I would often forget that I had magazines, newsletters, PDFs, etc. However, at any one time, I may have a big backlog of reading across a multitude of sources. And, indeed, this is how I originally used Instapaper. When people consider adopting a tool like Instapaper to create a reading queue, I suspect that most of them think to use the tool for only the first two content types on my list (blogs and websites). Websites (news, research projects, travel planning, etc.).I read a wide variety of content from a multitude of sources, including: I thought I’d share the details of my unified reading queue hack for anyone who could benefit from bringing some organization to their reading life. While I use Instapaper (and have for years), you can achieve similar results with competing apps such as Pocket. ![]() I have quite a few personalized life hacks, but one of my favorites, and maybe the one I’d mention, is how I use Instapaper to create a unified reading queue. I’ve sometimes wondered how I’d answer this question. At the end of each interview on the podcast ChooseFI, the hosts, Brad and Jonathan, put their guests in the “hot seat” and ask them their favorite life hack. ![]()
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