I recently found this simple to use web application that solves an ongoing problem I’ve had for a long time. I browse tons of web pages, and have struggled with an efficient way to keep track of them, and save them to read later.
I’ve tried bookmarking them in a web browser, bookmarking services such as Delicious, saving the URL’s on my desktop and in folders, and saving the links to pages in web apps such as Backpack. All of these methods have been pretty clunky.
Now, using Instapaper, when I come across a web page I want to save and read later, I just click on the “Read Later” button (which I previously added to my Firefox toolbar) and the page is saved to my Instapaper account. Then, when I’m in reading mode, I go to Instapaper and click through to the pages I want to read in the order I want. I can then archive them or delete them.
Instapaper also works with the iPhone browser, and even comes bundled with Tweetie, my current Twitter iPhone App of choice. You can set up and start using the app in lesss than a minute on both the iPhone and your Firefox browser.
