Online Finds Can Be Read Later

There’s a great many of us who have not hit the end of the internet. I’ve heard strange tales of people who have come across a site that warns them that

Instapaper helps you save your online searches to read later.

they have reached the “End of the Internet.” The thought scares me quite frankly, but for the rest of us, we’re always finding useful information and stuff we want to come back to later. There’s always the faithful bookmark, but let’s be honest, our bookmarks are probably filled with items we’ve not gone back to in a very long, long, long time. So that does not seem very functional.

We’ve also got apps like Evernote that seem to capture instances of our online searches and saves them allowing us to share them, sync them, or just read it later. But for some it’s a heavy app that most of us just don’t want to mess with, so there’s an alternative to all of the above, and the answer is Instapaper.

Uniquely, Instapaper is both a web app and a mobile app, but the simplicity never goes away. You simply find what you want, click read later, and the instance is filed away for you to come back and review later. So instead of bulking up your bookmarks tab, you’ve just stored it away for you to come back to later, perhaps an article you didn’t finish reading, or a quick item you want to purchase but need to think about a little more. Whatever the case, the app is easy, and the site for it has no frills, just the basic steps to using the app (two steps to be exact) and you’re done.

What I find extremely useful is the ability to access my content offline on my mobile. So without an internet connection I can still access my content read it in its entirety and dispose of it when I’m done. This functionality is great when my signal drops and I can’t find a wifi spot.

Give it a whirl and let us know what you think. Got a better app for the same process, let us know, we’d be happy to review it.