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johnnyFive  ·  2030 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 5, 2018

    Instapaper

What's your workflow for that like? I really enjoyed it on iOS from an aesthetic standpoint, but found it to be a huge PITA to actually use, because it won't read RSS feeds or auto-update. Instead I had to go to Safari and add an individual article manually, and then save it to instapaper. The app itself was fantastic to actually read from, as I said, but it just felt like a glorified ebook reader or something. I e-mailed them about it, and even then, they told me you had to use a third-party tool to stream RSS/Atom feeds to Instapaper. Having to do that means Instapaper was redundant. I really wanted to like it, though.





veen  ·  2030 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have abandoned RSS a long long time ago and I know Instapaper is not really meant for that. Instapaper does have an email address you can send stuff to, so you could probably automate (IFTT?) an RSS feed to send email to that address.

For me it's a "read later" app. I noticed that I enjoy sitting down and reading a bunch of articles distraction-free, but the various sources that I get my articles from (Hubski excluded) are optimized to keep you scrolling, not to have you read stuff. So I now shoot articles I read on Twitter off to Instapaper so that I can actually read it with focus instead of reading about it half-distracted by the next shiny thing.

Plus, its highlighting function is just perfect for me, as that's what I always want to do with text (but rarely get the chance to). I can now highlight interesting passeges and easily send them off to my notes system in Google Keep after finishing an article.

johnnyFive  ·  2029 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That makes sense. I've thought about how that might work for me, but it just doesn't. Which as I said, is a shame given how nice it is to actually read on. But for me, all it does is add another step.