![]() ![]() I’m not the only one to think Instapaper nears perfection on the iPad. When Apple did release the iPad and a native version of Instapaper was available on day one, it was clear Apple’s form factor and Arment’s UI decisions would play well together in the long term. Since the original iPad came out last year, pretty much everybody had a feeling the device could turn out to be ideal for reading, but no one really stopped to think about the implications of a device for Instapaper before the iPad’s release. ![]() In this regard, Instapaper works like magic: you hit a button, and any web article is transformed into an elegant, readable, easy on the eye page that you can customize to your liking with different fonts, pagination and brightness settings, or “dark mode” if you prefer white text on black while reading at night.Īnd I have been reading with Instapaper at night. Instapaper, however, works best with articles, as its main goal is to provide users with an elegant way to read the words of an author without seeing ads, graphical elements, or readers’ comments. The foundation upon which Instapaper works and prospers is the Read Later bookmarklet, a button you can install in your browser’s toolbar to send any webpage off to your Instapaper account. Instapaper works on the web, on the Amazon Kindle with automatic wireless delivery, and on Apple’s iPhone and iPad. Apps that support Instapaper play a big role in the service’s success and Arment even showcases this kind of integration in the new 4.0 version, but what really made Instapaper great is its simplicity coupled with publishers’ support, user adoption, multi-platform nature, and interconnectedness of tools that has allowed Instapaper – once a small indie project churning out a couple of thousand articles per day – to become the most popular way to never miss a good read. Over the years, Instapaper’s Marco Arment, founder and creator of the service, has managed to build an ecosystem around Instapaper, which is based upon but doesn’t stop at apps connected to the service via an API. But unlike the number of similar solutions that have surfaced since Apple featured the app multiple times (or simply its merits, which have been recognized by millions of average users alike), Instapaper isn’t simply a website with an account, a bunch of text stripped off websites, and a bookmarklet to grab articles. Instapaper 4.0, released today on the App Store, will change my reading habits, again.įor those who are not familiar with the concept of Instapaper, it’s a web service that allows you to save web articles for later. If you wish to use a web clipper, we recommend Hypothes.is because Readwise can directly integrate with the service and sync with no effort on your part.Since I started using Instapaper in 2008, this app has changed the way I read. ![]() These apps install an extension in your browser enabling you to highlight things as you go. Third, you can use one of many "web clipper" apps such as Hypothes.is or Worldbrain. This highlight will then appear inside an Article on your Readwise Dashboard. Third, if you're reading something in Safari with the Readwise iOS app installed, you can quickly capture a highlight to Readwise by highlighting the desired text, selecting the share icon at the bottom of the tray (iPhone) or top right (iPad) (important: do not select Share in the popover), and selecting Save Highlight to Readwise. Second, if you're reading something in Chrome/Firefox with the Readwise extension installed ( Install for Chrome) ( Install for Firefox), you can quickly capture a highlight to Readwise by highlighting the desired text, right-clicking, and selecting Save Highlight to Readwise. You can read more about our philosophy of using a read-it-later app here: Stop Reading Junk and Start Using Instapaper. In other words, highlights you take in Instapaper or Pocket will automatically be synchronized with Readwise. This is our recommended approach to reading and highlighting web articles because nearly all such read-it-later apps (1) clean up the article to make the reading experience more enjoyable, (2) include highlighting and annotating features, and (3) automatically sync with Readwise with no effort on your part. ![]() As the name would suggest, read-it-later means you save articles you come across on the internet to read later within the app. Read-It-Later Appsįirst, you can use a "read-it-later" app such as Instapaper or Pocket and integrate that app with your Readwise account. There are a few ways you can capture highlights from web articles into Readwise. How do I capture highlights from web articles into Readwise? ![]()
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