Stash Interesting Reads in Readeck
Delayed Gratification
Don't let interesting articles and blog posts linger in your browser's bookmarking purgatory. Use Readeck to read and manage them instead.
Like everything in life, applications and services come and go. Not even genuinely useful, popular, and profitable services are safe from going the way of the dodo. Pocket is case in point. This read-it-later service had been around for a long while, before it was purchased by Mozilla. After trying, and largely failing, to push the service down Firefox users' throats, Mozilla found no better alternative than shutting down the service and accompanying apps for good.
But as is often the case, several alternatives were ready to fill the void left by Pocket's demise. While some former Pocket users found refuge at Instapaper (which has a turbulent story of its own), others were determined not to repeat the same mistake again, opting for open source self-hosted solutions. This gave rise to several read-it-later applications, including Readeck [1].
On its face, Readeck looks and behaves exactly like any other read-it-later application: Feed a URL to it and Readeck fetches the content, formats it, and saves it for later reading. But beneath its polished, user-friendly appearance (Figure 1) lurks a slew of useful features that make Readeck a prime candidate for hosting a read-it-later service of your own.
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