POCKET INSTAPAPER ALTERNATIVES FULL
The full scorecard is located at the tail-end of this evaluation. These are weighted in no particular order, with several evaluated subjectively on a scale of Poor, Okay, Good, Great, and Excellent, other binarily as Yes/No. I've grouped these evaluations into the following: But there are several other considerations that can be included as well - expectations of a multi-platform user, design philosophies of servicing websites and apps in 2013, the speed and ease of use of a product. Obviously both of these services are self-referential for the read later service, and so they've helped shape what a service like this should look like (in addition to how it should function). What I hope to do with this evaluation is score each service on several integral components of what a read later service should ideally comprise. Today, the read-it-later economy is strong, and even traditional bookmarking/note-taking services like Delicious and Evernote have attempted to enter it. Both have evolved into more realized products of their original visions, and have refined their services and ecosystems. Pocket (formerly known as Read It Later) started life as a single-platform Firefox extension that didn't do much beyond saving articles for later (without device sync) Instapaper, a bookmarklet and text parser for the iPhone (which had just debuted), focused on parsing article text and having a synchronized list between platforms (the app launched when the App Store did in 2008). So, in the year of the iPhone, this whole "read it later" thing began. As technology advanced, services like Yahoo's Delicious caught on to the idea of enabling pages on the Internet to be saved server-side, therefore being accessible wherever you could reach the bookmarking website.īut circa 2007, in the booming age of mobile devices and the changing behaviors of readers, bookmarking a full web page and loading it up on the train into work isn't as convenient a reading experience as it could have been.
For a long while, bookmarking was tied to client-side storage in the application, and could only be accessed at a user's computer. Bookmarking has been part of Internet browsing since nearly the beginning of the browser.
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