![]() ![]() A Mac App: for easy access to your saved content and faster organizing.To understand why I make that claim, consider some of the key features of each: Pocket Features Comparing the Functionalityīeyond the aesthetic differences, I’ve come to believe that Instapaper and Pocket differ fundamentally in their goals. Both of those things are part of the core functionality of both Pocket and Instapaper, and as soon as I realized this I began to question my allegiances and dig deeper into the features. If I have time to be tagging and organizing my saves, I have time to be reading them-and I prefer to do the latter.Īt the end of the day, 90% of what I save is written articles, and the rest is videos. If I were using Pocket as my one and only repository for things, subscribing to their Premium plan to unlock permanent archiving, then I could see this being more useful.īut as someone for whom Pocket is only an inbox that doesn’t get used for long-term storage, the tagging and organizing is not only moot-it’s extra busywork. The first point is important because a core part of Pocket’s appeal is the robust tagging system that helps you organize things. I mostly save written articles and videos. ![]() In migrating my Pocket items to Instapaper this week and taking a critical look at what I save and how I deal with the items, I realized a few important things: If something resonates with me, I will save it from Pocket to Evernote-not because Pocket doesn’t have an archive, but because Evernote is designed for this and I already use it extensively. ![]() I can toss almost anything at it and have it waiting for me on all my devices when I have some time to catch up. I believe in using the best tool for the job, which is why I’ve used a combination of Pocket and Evernote for the past two years.įor me, Pocket serves as a powerful inbox for content that I don’t have time to consume immediately. Others use just one service, relying on Pocket to not only collect their internet travel stops but also preserve them. Some people have a system that involves many moving parts: they save things to Pocket, use IFTTT to clone articles from Pocket to Instapaper, then view multimedia in Pocket and written articles in Instapaper, saving the best to Evernote for safekeeping. This seemed unfair, so over the past week I’ve been using both services and comparing them head to head to see how they stack up.Īs it turns out, I may have been using the wrong service all along. Pocket has a broad scope and is ideal for helping users collect, sort, and share interesting content.īeing happy with Pocket, I realized that I hadn’t taken a good look at Instapaper in a long time-since before it changed hands and started to really grow. In my case, after being an early adopter of Instapaper, I jumped ship to Pocket two years ago and didn’t really look back. Everyone has their own routine for keeping track of articles they want to come back to, and these days there are numerous options, most of them focused on specific tasks- Instapaper for reading, Pinboard for bookmarks, and Pocket for just about anything. ![]()
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