I find that the simple introduction of these two tools, Instapaper for Reading Later and Readability for Reading Now not only allow me to consume and collect MORE information than before, but I'm slightly less stressed out while I'm doing it. I have another bookmarklet called Readability.Īnd as Rob Conery likes to say pressing it "is like closing the car windows while driving on the freeway." Recently I wanted to read this article on overclocking my motherboard. Sometimes I want to read something right now, but the site I'm looking at is just too busy. I can of course also read from my phone (I'm working on a Windows Phone 7 version) or whatever device makes me happy. Everything here is focused on text and making the content I'm consuming more soluble. It also adds a little bar at the top where I can select between readable fonts, change the width, font size and line spacing. The Instapaper filter is a lot like Readability (more on that later) in that it removes the non-content parts of the article. I'll click "Text" for Phil's article using a filter. Here's an interesting bit, while I can click the link for Phil and visit his site, I don't. It knows what I've read, what I've starred and what's been articled. There's the articles I've saved lately, with new ones first. I've got time and I've collected a few interesting bits that I'm looking forward to reading. I'll click "Read Later" in my bookmarks bar, and I see this notification.įast forward some hours. I visit the page and while it looks interesting, he's SO loquacious and I'm busy now. Lets say I see this article by Phil Haack tweeted. You can even have your Instapaper queue sent over to your Kindle if it makes you happy. Anywhere you find stuff you want to read later. The bookmarklet even works from within Google Reader. If it's not setup on all your machines in any browser where you might find content, you'll fall back to old habits and not use it. I've got a bookmarklet for Instapaper in my bookmark bar on all my computers in all my browsers. Whenever you find something long that you KNOW you want to read but you just don't have time now, don't open a tab. You'll either Read It Now or Read It Later. Here's what I do.Ĭonsider this new workflow. This is not cool and I refuse to use the web in this way anymore. Then, maybe your browser crashes or your system reboots or something locks up or you get confused as to why you wanted to read that in the first place. Then, at some point in your copious free time, and possibly while reading other more pressing things, you'll read these 43 tabs, right? Even better, some of the articles are 8 pages long so you'll load up pages 1-4 and 6 and you don't even know why. You get a link in email, Twitter, Facebook, IM, whatever and you open it in a new tab. The company is also offering a free month of Instapaper Premium through May for those looking to trial the new Playlist features and more.īe sure to check out our full roundup of the best CarPlay apps for more information.Here's how most folks use the Web. Instapaper is available on the App Store as a free download. The app also now supports editing article titles and descriptions, which “can be helpful for adjusting the title/description or adding your own context to the article.” Outside of the new CarPlay app, today’s update to Instapaper also includes updates to its text-to-speech platform, including support to choose from multiple different text-to-speech voices. The CarPlay app will automatically detect custom Playlists, and you can access the Playlist from the top right of the Now Playing screen on CarPlay. Instapaper Premium subscribers can also manually create playlists via the CarPlay app:Īdditionally, Premium customers can use the Instapaper app to create a custom playlist by going to the More button in an article list, selecting Playlist, and choosing articles to play. “With Instapaper Premium, selecting an article in CarPlay will automatically create a Playlist that allows you to listen to your articles one after the other,” the company explains. Paid subscribers, however, get access to creating playlists. The Instapaper CarPlay app is available to free and premium Instapaper users. When you tap on one of them, the app will automatically start reading that article using Instapaper’s text-to-speech technology. In a blog post on Friday, Instapaper touted the new CarPlay app and explained that the app lets you view a list of your saved articles. You might be wondering how a reading-focused app translates to CarPlay, but it all comes down to text-to-speech technology. Instapaper, the popular read-it-later service, is now available via CarPlay.
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