![]() On August 23, 2016, Instapaper was acquired by social networking service Pinterest. Afterward, the service's web interface was redesigned. In April 2013, Arment sold a majority stake in Instapaper to Betaworks. When Marco Arment launched the service publicly on January 28, 2008, its simplicity rapidly earned accolades from the press, including Daring Fireball and TechCrunch. Instapaper started out as a simple web service in late 2007 with a "Read Later" bookmarklet and stripped-down "Text" view for articles. ![]() The transition was completed on August 6, 2018. In July 2018, ownership of Instapaper was transferred from Pinterest to a newly formed company Instant Paper, Inc. In April 2013, Arment sold a majority stake to Betaworks and by mid 2016 Pinterest acquired the company. The service was founded in 2008 by Marco Arment. Instapaper is a social bookmarking service that allows web content to be saved so it can be "read later" on a different device, such as an e-reader, smartphone, or tablet. Pocket and Instapaper (and IFTTT!) allow you to save interesting things for later, view them in amazing ways, and easily infuse content into your workflow.Online bookmarking, saving articles for later reading This integration allows you to automatically send saved articles with a certain tag as a URL to your company’s Slack, copy content to your Evernote account, add URLs to a master Google spreadsheet, add a reminder for the article to your calendar or to do list for later, etc. IFTTT Integrationįinally, both Pocket and Instapaper are available on IFTTT, a service I posted about on July 20th. Thanks to this feature, I can use Speed Reader mode to finish the above article from ArtificialLawyer somewhere between 150 and 60 seconds. ![]() When it is in motion, the service displays only one word in the center of the screen and moves onto the next at the set rate. The reader can set the speed between 250 and 650 words per minute. The above screenshot shows Speed Reading in action. Instapaper’s killer feature is a speed reading mode.Ĭlause, Clio + US Law Firm Cooley Launch Smart Contract Consortium from ArtificialLawyer Instapaper does not have the same official support for desktop applications, and it instead relies on iOS or Android sharing mechanisms or the extension/bookmarklet noted above. This feature has been incredibly useful in my years of using Pocket. The native application ensures that your content is available on your device regardless of your ability to open a web browser to get to the site. Pocket is available for download on desktops (official and unofficial), phones, and tablets in addition to being available within major web browsers. Pocket’s most outstanding feature that makes it unique compared to Instapaper is its native application. However, they each have unique features as well. Both services offer a number of options that you might expect from sites dedicated to the written word - a dark mode toggle, various fonts and spacing options, tags or folders for further organization, etc. Distraction EliminationĪrticle saved to Instapaper and viewed onlineĪs you can see, the articles adopt the site’s own flair and format, but the services present saved webpages in a way that focuses more on the content of the articles. Alternatively, the extension gives you small buttons near your URL bar to click to save content to the service of your choice. The bookmarklet on Instapaper, for example, is dragged into your bookmarks bar, and you simply click the bookmarklet whenever you want to save content in your browser window to Instapaper. Perhaps more importantly, they both automatically remove distracting ads and force the webpages into a standard viewing format for easier reading.īoth applications use a “bookmarklet” or web browser extension to save articles to your account. ![]() Pocket and Instapaper are tremendous tools that will help you save things to read and digest later. I bounced back and forth between two services for various reasons, and they are so close in utility that I have to write about them both. One of the tools that I most frequently use is a service to save online articles for later - often offline - access. Pocket and Instapaper icons from Content Aggregation ![]()
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