read later
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Read later is an indication on (or relating to) a website that one wants to save the URL to come back and read the content at a future time.
Indieweb Examples
Rick Mendes
Rick Mendes uses hashtags #readlater and #readinglist on his Known site 1. He provides additional details and discussion here.
Chris Aldrich
Chris Aldrich has been experimenting with general reading posts/workflows, some of which are discussed here: A New Reading Post-type for Bookmarking and Reading Workflow. In December 2016, I began using PressForward to internally save private bookmarks for things I want to read later, as well as a way to easily publish them as read posts when done.
gRegor Morrill
gRegor Morrill has been experimenting by posting book titles prefixed with "Want to read:" since 2016-04-06
- https://gregorlove.com/2016/04/want-to-read-a-kim/
- Using
h-item
andu-identifier
for the book title. The identifier's href is in the formatISBN:XXXXX
. - Manually POSSE to Goodreads.
Add yourself!
- ...
Silos
- Goodreads allows one to mark books as "Want to Read"
- Pocket - acquired by Mozilla on 2/17/17
- Instapaper - announced 8/23/16 that Pinterest is buying the service and shutting down a portion of their development
- ReadKit
- Safari Reading List, built natively into the browser
- Facebook Save
- Send to Kindle
- Reading.am Though this service is philosophically meant to indicate what you're actively reading right now (rather than saving for later), its functionality is roughly similar to others in this category.
Defunct Silos
- ReadingPack (defunct - see site-deaths)
- Readability (bookmarking service shut down 9/30/16 - see site-deaths)
Archiving Apps with similar functionality
- Evernote
- OneNote
- Historious
- KeepEverything
- Diigo
- Wallabag opensource, self-hosting
bookmark sites
These allow one to bookmark URLs which could potentially be tagged as read/unread, thereby providing this type of read it later functionality.
- Delicious
- Pinboard (or their sub-app Paperback
- Readwise is adding read later functionality in late 2021
- Micro.blog can save bookmarks via Micropub. For Micro.blog Premium subscribers, Micro.blog supports highlighting on bookmarked web pages and saves an archive of the page and linked resources.
See Also
- read
- bookmark
- annotation
- posts#Kinds_of_Posts
- Freshreader: The reading list for tab hoarders has expiring bookmarks after 7 days
- https://twitter.com/buzz_chronicles/status/1325908409217118209 a twitter bot that will save things to read for later as well as allow one to tag tweets and threads
- "I'm a Twitter bot that will help you read&discover threads more easily!
Just reply to a thread with
@buzz_chronicles save
and I will send you a link back on Twitter.
@buzz_chronicles save as category
will save the thread to the particular category." @buzz_chronicles November 9, 2020
- "I'm a Twitter bot that will help you read&discover threads more easily!
- https://omnivore.app/