Friday, December 4, 2009

a little known Instapaper feature worth noting!

I didn't get why I'd want to create a folder in Instapaper until I discovered the "Read later" bookmarklet at the bottom of each folder page.

I created a folder for:

  • videos I want to watch later (vids)

  • sites that require some kind of action on my part (act)
  • photo sites I want to come back to (pics)

After dragging up the bookmarklets for these individual buckets, I now have the most amazing procrastination tool on the web (and it's the good kind of procrastination!).

Since I use the Kindle integration, this keeps multimedia content out of my main Read Later bucket, so it's only articles I want to read. (Now if only there was a Kindle-style device that supported streaming video and high res photo display, now we're talkin'! Perhaps the Apple tablet will fill this role).

Kudos to Marco for all his hard work on this service, it's a huge time saver.

in reference to: Instapaper (view on Google Sidewiki)