![]() ![]() This is ancient history, and while it annoyed me at the time, I don’t really care anymore. And while Read It Later has introduced some original features, Weiner systematically copied almost every major Instapaper feature over the first few years of Instapaper’s existence. Months after Instapaper launched all of these features and was being very well-received in the tech press, in October 2008, Read It Later added a web service for sync, other-browser bookmarklets, and offline saving. That’s why I think it’s extremely misleading, or simply false, to say that Read It Later/Pocket was “the first save-for-later service”. And in 2007, Read It Later offered none of these. I think most people would consider these elements - multiple browser and device support, sync service, text extraction and reformatting, and offline saving - the essential ingredients that make a read-later service. 1 A few months later, I added its text-extraction parser, and in June 2008, I released its iPhone app with customizable text settings and offline saving. Instapaper launched in January 2008 as a bookmarklet that worked in any browser and a web service to sync your bookmarks between devices. This is what Pocket now claims was the first read-later service. There was no web service, no sync, and no support for other browsers - just a special bookmarks list stored locally in Firefox. It was just a Firefox extension with two buttons, read later and reading list, that behaved like a bookmarks folder. The first public mentions I can find of Read It Later are in November 2007. Whether this is true depends on how you define that. Later in the episode, he made the same claim a second time: Read It Later was the first service in this category. Steve: … “It’s worth noting that Read It Later and Pocket, we were the, kind of, first people to develop a save-for-later service, and that term, ‘read it later’, had kind of been adopted by other companies who are building these kind of similar products.” … ![]() Mike: “What sets Pocket apart from other services like Instapaper or Readability?” Weiner has commented numerous times in the press that Read It Later was the first read-later service, and that it predated Instapaper by being started in 2007. Steve’s the lead developer at Instapaper’s biggest competitor, Pocket, founded by Nate Weiner and formerly named Read It Later. Steve Streza was this week’s guest on CMD+SPACE. I’m nervous to post this, but my readers and customers were very appreciative that I clarified the Readability story after some incorrect assumptions in the press, so I’ll take the chance one more time. You can also "archive" the bookmarks from the corresponding notes.A programmer, writer, podcaster, geek, and coffee enthusiast. It will optionally keep it in synch by periodically fetching new bookmarks. The plugin will fetch the bookmarks from the services and store them as markdown notes. You can force the Synch with the commands Optionally set a periodic synching and a custom folder for each service. Go to the settings and authorize the plugin to access either your Pocket or Instapaper Library. Set the url attribute in the frontmatter and use the command Synch current page Integrate with read-it-later Services ![]() Map a note to a web page and keep it in synch.integrate with read-it-later services like Pocket and Instapaper.Plugin for keeping and tracking offsite version of web pages ![]()
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