Pocket (acquired by Mozilla)

[Sushubh]

Collections for Your Pocket

Curated guides to the best of the web

getpocket.com

 

[LordSpymaster]

Can anyone explain how to use this? And how to automate it?

 

[moindear]

Install the pocket extension in Chrome/Firefox, u can add any links to the pocket extension from browser, it will be accessible from this app in ur mobile

 

[Sushubh]

Pocket is not a free service from what I remember. Right? Use Readability. It is quite similar and pretty much free.

 

[LordSpymaster]

Pocket seems free to me. I read articles on Pulse. And honestly I don't see any reason to keep it. Pulse saves the articles for offline reading. Only advantage Pocket has is chrome extensions IMO.

 

[Navjot Singh]

Pocket is completely free.

 

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[Sushubh]

mhm. i suppose instapaper is not free then? what is the business model of pocket?

 

[Navjot Singh]

Yepp. Instapaper is not free. It was one of the reasons I shifted to Pocket. Buisness Idea of pocket? Lol..no idea. There seems to be none atm. They used to have a publisher program around an year back but removed it during redesign. Since then it has become totally free.

 

[Sushubh]

Righto. I am personally been using Readability mostly because of their ability to reformat web content inside browser. Not sure if Pocket offers that feature too?

 

[Navjot Singh]

Content is only formatted if you open the saved links from the account. Doesn't do on the fly.

 

[Sushubh]

Righto. Jetpack recently added Pocket button feature. So, I guess it is quite popular.

 

[Navjot Singh]

Right. It even offers an Import tool for Instapaper users. 😛 Big plus there.
Btw just logged into my Readability account after so long and the only thing is a notice about shutting of Publisher program and the updated TOS. 😕 Saved links, settings, profile all gone. Poof. :O

 

[Sushubh]

It seems to have maintained my reading list just fine :

 

[Navjot Singh]

I guess this is their way of punishing me for switching to Pocket instead of going to them. 😀

 

[Jonas]

I am not sure how it's different from SoundGecko.
Soundgecko works well for me, I just noticed that an article that I submitted was not only sent to my email as an audiobook, but it was on drive as well.

Pretty cool.