Pocket

Pocket was formerly known as Read It Later. It has extensions for Chrome and Firefox that let you save articles you don’t have time to read to its database, so you can read them later when you’re free. Its reading app is available for iOS and Android, and it supports offline reading. You can also add tags to articles to make them easier to find later. Many RSS apps also support saving articles to Pocket, and that’s my favorite feature. The reason I gave up on Evernote was that many mobile news reader apps don’t support Evernote. If I came across a good article, I had to use a computer to save it to Evernote. Pocket is different: popular reading apps like Flipboard and Feedly all support saving directly to Pocket. If you’re reading in a mobile browser and want to save an article, that’s easy too. Just send it through Email. Pocket also helps you make good use of your time. I often come across good articles online while I’m coding or busy with something else, so I can’t read them right away. That’s when I save the article to Pocket, then take out my phone and read it when I have some free time. It also supports offline reading, and you just need to sync the content every so often. Evernote, by contrast, requires a paid plan for offline reading. For now, I put temporary articles in Pocket, and articles I want to keep permanently or study notes go into Evernote. ...