So, for practical purposes, this stuff that I’ve decided to read can now go whooshing through a network of customized tubes, and gently land practically anywhere that well-formed bits may reside. And, it’s even preserved for posterity in my private Pinboard archive. It’s readable on a website it’s readable on an iPhone, and 2 iPads it’s readable on a Kindle 3 it’s readable on the crazy number of apps and services that display Instapaper items. However I ended up deciding to read something, seconds after that *click*, the real magic starts happening, and–through whatever inscrutable black art and transmogrification is happening inside the fearsome celestial engine Marco has made–that decision to read is expressed in the most elegant of results and in a startlingly broad variety of convenient places. That thing I decided to read is now everywhere. But, there’s more.īecause, all that support for getting stuff into Instapaper is mirrored by an endless number of ways to get stuff back out.
Now, the third part of this magic is less immediately obvious, not least because the reading experience of the Instapaper iOS apps is, for my own purposes, perfect. But, the practical result is that all those little entrees to Instapaper are available to me everywhere I might need them, and they each represent a single little click that silently adds an item of “stuff” to my Instapaper pile.Įach button is one more simple opportunity for me to decide to read. Yes, a big part of this is about ubiquity and ease-of-use. E.g.:īut, that banner dump only tells part of the story. Suffice it to say, there are many ways to get “stuff” into Instapaper. I can automate in or out of Instapaper with If This Then That, I can email items directly to Instapaper–hell, I can even just copy a URL from iOS Safari, and paste it directly into the motherscratching Instapaper app.
I have (and use the hell out of) the “Send to Instapaper” services that are built in to everything from Google Reader to Reeder to Flipboard to Instacast to Tweetbot to Zite to you name it. I have a bookmarklet for adding items to Instapaper in 4 browsers on 7 devices. So, that flexibility in collecting material is where I end up using some form of Instapaper dozens of times each day. Because as much as I use Instapaper for all manner of reading, its use as an ephemeral destination for mostly ephemeral content wouldn’t be nearly so useful if I didn’t have so many ways to collect all that stuff.
See, this is the really important first part. This decision part’s important, but more on that in a couple minutes.īut, how does all this “stuff” I’ve decided to read get in to Instapaper? 1. More saliently, these are things that I have decided to read. Long articles, smaller features, short books, big piles of documentation, and really just anything that I would like to read…later. This is what Instapaper is actually for, right? You read stuff. Second, and most obviously, I use Instapaper maybe five to ten times a day to catch up on my reading. In that typically annoying mixed order I can’t seem to stop doing, here goes. Four things that work together to make my life a little better. Specifically, I use Instapaper a lot because it helps me do four things extremely well. It’s always lived on my iPhone’s home page, and, as you can surmise, that’s because I use Instapaper a lot. Thing is, I want to tell you how Marco has made a magical machine for people who have decided to read.įor years, Instapaper has been one of the best made, most used, and most beloved apps in my iOS ecosystem. (As you may already know, I’m a big Marco fan.) Because, if it’s not already obvious, Marco’s little app (and its associated services) enjoys a rabid fanbase of sundry paragraph cultists who are as eager as I am to spread the word and, yes, we do want you to join the Reading Nerd cult.īut, I also want to mark the occasion by adding a few thoughts on exactly what Instapaper has done, and continues to do, for me. Now, it’s fortunate and appropriate that you’ll be hearing this advice at length from a lot of people this week.
#Instapaper ipad update
I promise you’ll be treating yourself to a massive update to an already excellent product. This is fantastic news, and–as if you needed one more of Marco’s beta testers to say so–I do sincerely hope you’ll mark the occasion (and support his hard work) by purchasing the Instapaper iOS app(s). The lede here is that my pal, Marco, has just released the stellar new 4.0 version of his Instapaper suite. Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone
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