Just the Unread list, and it doesn’t even work well.Įven Instapaper is spelled as “InstaPaper” in the app. There are no sharing options, no additional menus, no support for Instapaper’s Archive or Liked items. Sync fails often, reporting incosistent errors for actually-correct account information there are no font options to control the text’s apperance, or keyboard shortcuts to navigate the app the window’s width can’t be resized (it only supports height), and the sidebar with tags (I assume they are tags, though I never created those) often “gets stuck” on a black background. Words looks decent when it’s focused on text (generated by the Instapaper parser) in full-screen mode, but everything else is pretty buggy, unstable, and unfinished. Unfortunately, while promising, Words isn’t there yet. Especially following Pocket’s acquisition of Read Later, I thought it was appropriate to post my impressions of the app after using it with my Instapaper account for the past week. Last week, I stumbled across a Mac app called Words, which is a desktop client to access your Instapaper, Pocket, and Readability “read later” lists. Hopefully you’ll find this quick solution useful feel free to modify it and/or send suggestions. It sounds complex, but in actual practice I can go from a Safari webpage on iOS to a PDF in the Evernote app in around 30 seconds. html file in my Dropbox, which is then converted to PDF and added to Evernote. On an iPhone or iPad, I can simply hit a button in Safari, and wait for Pythonista to turn a webpage (that’s already been passed through Instapaper’s text bookmarklet) into an. Yesterday I put together an iOS and OS X workflow to generate PDFs remotely on my Mac, starting from a simple bookmarklet on iOS. So I have come up with a way to combine Instapaper with the benefit of PDFs, Dropbox, and automation to generate documents off any link or webpage, from any device, within seconds. For as much as I like Instapaper, I can’t be sure that the service will be around in the next decades, and I don’t want my archive of longform and quality content to be lost in the cloud. Lately, I have become obsessed with turning longer articles I find on the Internet also into PDFs for long-term archival. When I come across a webpage that I know I want to keep for future reference, I like to generate a clean-looking PDF file with selectable text that I can rely on for years to come. I’ve already expressed my preference for archiving webpages as PDFs rather than simple “bookmarks” on an online service. The app costs $1.99, and if you want to use it with Instapaper, you’ll need the $1 monthly subscription. ReadKit, in fact, works with Instapaper, Pocket, and Readability, therefore covering the most popular third-party read later services. ReadKit, a new app by Webin released today, is – finally – a solid piece of software for those who have been looking for a desktop version of their favorite read later service. Looking around for alternatives that would work with the service I use on a daily basis for text articles, Marco Arment’s Instapaper, I was not impressed with Words: I guess a desktop app can be seen as an add-on, a companion to the main experience. I “catch up” on articles and videos with my iPhone and iPad. I’ve got used to thinking of “read later” as a inherently mobile state of mind. I’m still not completely sold on the overall concept of a desktop read-later app. After Michael Schneider, creator of Read Later, joined the Pocket team to release the official Pocket app for Mac, I wondered if there was a real need for a “read later” (lowercase) application for the desktop:
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