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Matt KramerInstapaper: Bookmarking Elegance for Web Workers
January 31st, 2008 (7:14am) Bob Walsh 7 Comments
If web site bookmarking is something you do day in and day out, there’s a new bookmarking tool you need to add to your browser - Instapaper (via TechCrunch). The side project of Marco Arment, creator of the very cool micro-blogging service Tumbir, Instapaper is online bookmarking that gets out of your way so you can bookmark the way you need to when you spend your working day on the web.
Back in the early days of the World Wide Web, bookmarks were okay as a means of noting the one page you found in your 30 minutes a day on the web, but did not scale well as the hours you spent web surfing grew. As the web grew, social bookmarking tools like del.icio.us and digg took the approach that the power of online collaboration was worth the extra clicks and time to give you at least some way of gathering the pages you wanted to return to. But if you just needed to bookmark dozens of pages in the course of your workday, and you didn’t necessarily want to share those finds with the entire world, your only real alternative was to keep dumping bookmarks into your browser until it you had a ridiculously bloated toolbar.
Instapaper is personal bookmarking evolved. You sign up with your email (or anything else you want to use, no password necessary), get a bookmarklet you stick in your toolbar and you’re good to go. Then when you hit a page you need to read later, you click the Instapaper bookmarklet, a window briefly pops up saying “Saved!” then goes away and you’re done. No time wasted going off to some other page; no breaking your train of thought to fill in a form.
Back at Instapaper, here’s what you find:
Instapaper
While you can add a note to a URL, why bother? Instapaper has reduced bookmarking to its absolute minimum, and that means bookmarking can finally scale.
If you’re interested, here’s my very modest hack for Instapaper - don’t just create one account. I created 3 - one for each of the main areas of my life. Now -
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