ReadItLater Blog

I find it disingenious to claim apps don't need to be free, when you built a successful app that already has followers (thanks to the lite version also...) and is highly regarded in tech spheres. Would he have done his experiment on a new app with a new concept, it would have a lot more credibility. I actually downloaded the lite version a long long time ago, and I wouldn't have if it wasn't free. Update: btw the 'Read it later' link is broken in the OP, it should be http://readitlaterlist.com/ .The app developper should really buy the readitlater.com domain if he can...

I just installed Read It Later (http://readitlaterlist.com) so I can bookmark links which are interesting tweets to my followers. They have an API, which could be used to automate some of the work needed to prepare the tweets.

I use the Evernote plugin for saving random snippets of interesting text I might want one day; and for pages I'll want to visit in the next 6 months, I use 'Read It Later' http://readitlaterlist.com/ What's so nice about read it later is that it's quicker than regular bookmarks. I hit alt-w to add current page to the list, alt-w to remove it when I'm done, and that's it. The regular bookmarks are heavyweight enough that I just wouldn't do that. (And this allows a nice division between regular bookmarks, links I'll be using for years, and RIL bookmarks, which I could get rid of anytime as soon as I finish with them. I could do that with folders, and that's how RIL works behind the scenes, but that's still more heavyweight.) There are other features, like auto-saving the pages to disk for offline access, or a personal RSS feed, and integration with various Web 2.0 thingies - but that the core functionality is so quick and easy is the greatest part about it.

can anyone compare this to read it later (http://readitlaterlist.com/)?

This problem is already solved. Consider http://readitlaterlist.com/ or https://www.instapaper.com/

I find this extremely irritating too. The way I overcome it is by using "Read It Later" (http://www.readitlaterlist.com) to bookmark the interesting ones during my initial early morning scan.

Would you use it if you could configure your own delay period? I've tried to come up with a way to change it for each page you submit, but I haven't come up with anything that doesn't require pop-ups or page refreshes. I really would like to keep the UI as simple as possible. Is it too much work for the user to add the delay to the end of the url, ie example.com#DaysToSend=1, hit refresh, then hit the bookmarklet? is there a service that sends me daily summary email with links? That sounds alot like Read it Later: http://readitlaterlist.com/.

You might consider looking into something like Instapaper[1] or Read It Later[2] for your offline reading needs, rather than try to maintain an unwieldily tab set. [1] http://www.instapaper.com/ [2] http://readitlaterlist.com/

Same here. The first couple of days it was out I used it a lot - especially the HN feed. However, I realized I missed the comments and I switched back using HN via the web. Also, the endless "RT by @blahblah" list of users on the right column for each story is basically useless clutter. I use Read Later instead of instapaper, same thing, I just like the FF plugin it offers: http://readitlaterlist.com/ Its funny, when I built LookLater a few years ago the Instapaper/ReadLater use case is I guess really what I had in my mind.

I used to do that (keep tabs open of something I want to read) until I discovered this: http://readitlaterlist.com/

Uh, I massively dislike working with a fat bunch of windows. How can the title of one Firefox window as tab group can be as expressive as a group of tabs you've persisted in Tab Candy with your own label? Indeed I do. One of these days I'll get around to adding an extension that allows me to queue links without opening them in tabs. If you don't know any, i like Read it Later(http://readitlaterlist.com/). Anything better out there?

WoW .... dude you totally ripped off this http://readitlaterlist.com/ . ReadItLater has been around since august 2007 and featured on Digg here is an article from one of Om Malik's network sites http://tinyurl.com/5bsuf4 Dude reconsider the name it screams of copycat and a lack of innovation!!!

Oh if you register even these guys do. http://readitlaterlist.com/ That is why the highlight around firefox plugin. Rest they are very similar. Any user account based system becomes an unnecessary overhead for something so transient. If you really like the post you would post it to your delicious account anyway. The one you just want to check out a browser based cache is good enough. Most would be discarded anyway.

Apple already had measures in place to block that 'loophole' without these new rules—or new interpretations of the rules, if you will. Apple banned an update to ReadItLater, last year, because the reviewer believed the developer was attempting to circumvent the in-app purchase: http://readitlaterlist.com/blog/2010/08/version-2-2-rejected-new-rejec…

He laid out his reasons pretty clearly in his post about it: http://readitlaterlist.com/blog/2010/12/a-quick-word-on-the-mobilerss-…

Read It Later does much the same thing. I use it all the time to bookmark things for later use. It's an addon for Firefox, but works with any browser through bookmarklets. http://readitlaterlist.com/iphone/

Check this Firefox extension out: http://readitlaterlist.com/firefox/

I get your point, but I just wanted to point out that there are cross browser bookmarklets available as well as the FF extension. http://readitlaterlist.com/bookmarklets/