Information overload? Read Later!

There are so many things to read on the web - tech news, links from friends and blogs - and I’d open them, “hmm looks interesting, will read them later” but never could find time to do so in day.

grokked: hi, do you know any web service that can add arbitary web pages to an RSS feed? like i have a whole bunch of pages open in my browser and i want to just add them into google reader for review later
me: maybe can email urself the page or soemthing.. or maybe delicious them. that’s also an RSS
grokked: i was thinking more of the actual page appearing within google reader… this only give me urls
me: hmmm

And hence an experimental feature was quietly launched: The “read later” bookmarklet - Click on the bookmarklet and SharedCopy will stash the page somewhere for you to read later, in your favourite feed reader:

Try it out! You can find your own “read later” feed at the bottom of your account “Settings” page :-)

Comments

[Slim Amamou]

hi Choonkeat,
there is also http://www.instapaper.com/
by Marco Arment.

BTW i never read what I plan to read later. :-)

[choonkeat]

Hi Slim,

First, instapaper is a list of links (didn't meet criteria #1). The bigger issue is that it is "another place to go". I prefer to reuse infrastructure whenever possible, i.e. there's plenty of good email/feed readers around.. with habits and supporting tools built around them as well.

[Victor Ho]

Hi, I'm the guy in the blog entry who wanted to read stuff later. =P

When I use this feature I find that the read-later item don't show up in Google Reader until some hours later.

So if you guys try it and don't see results immediately, be patient. :)

[choonkeat]

If you are using a desktop feed reader, there won't be any delay. Additionally, you'll get the benefit of being able to read stuff offline!