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Instapaper’s API is stellar, let’s just leave it at that. It is worth noting that a robust API makes for a better service overall, because developers can use it to craft app that do things but touch Instapaper’s functionality (that is, saving stuff for later digestion). I won’t be covering the business side, and I won’t be discussing the API ( opened up fully last year), which is fully documented here.

#Instapaper app how to

In this deep dive I’ll go through how to set up Instapaper, how to integrate it into your workflow, how to configure and maximize Instapaper’s vast feature set and powerful hooks into other apps, and I’ll share some handy tips even longtime users may not be familiar with. Even if you only find shorter reads that you can’t get to until after work, Instapaper is a hugely effective tool for saving later and reading with ease. Marco Arment, the creator of Instapaper, subtly hints at the long form angle throughout the Instapaper website, although it is most powerfully reflected in a curated portion of Instapaper, which we’ll get to in a bit. If you’re looking for productivity reasons on why to use Instapaper, consider the points in this article. Guess what? Pinboard integrates with Instapaper - but we’ll discuss this later. If you’re looking for a tool to save bookmarks of websites for later perusal, you’ll want something like Pinboard. Note that Instapaper is for reading specific articles. Instapaper is, in fact, ideally suited to longer reads on the web, and that’s by design. No, not cute cat videos, more like cute Gore Vidal pieces in Esquire. If you work on the web during the day (even for a few hours) you’ll inevitably run into items you’d like to read, but can’t get to at that moment. It will also make mobile-friendly views of articles on your mobile devices, removing distractions like ads and speeding up page load times tremendously. Instapaper is designed to be a tool for saving long reads for later, when you have time to read them. So what is Instapaper? You could just ask easily ask what it isn’t, because it’s hard to explain to some people. Later this week I’ll directly compare Instapaper to its rivals, Pocket and Readability. Back then, I’d scour the web looking for stories to write up, and save them to Instapaper instead of Delicious because I didn’t need to keep them forever, just until I wrote up whatever piqued my interest at that moment. Turns out I started using Instapaper back in 2008, when the service was quite young and you didn’t have nearly the options you do today.

#Instapaper app full

You can see the full list of new features at Arment's blog.It’s easy to take simple, powerful tools for granted. For Instapaper subscribers who choose to fork over $1 a month to support the service, the app now includes full-text search of all the articles you've ever saved to Instapaper - downright handy. Instapaper wants to let you know what your friends are reading, so now in addition to the stories flagged by your Instapaper-specific social connections, you can also browse all the linked stories posted by your Twitter and Facebook friends or by the Tumblr microblogs you follow (Arment is a founder and former CTO of Tumblr). iOS 5 users get true hardware brightness control, making it easier to read under varying lighting conditions. The iPhone version has been streamlined too, with story excerpts, bylines and site information clearly visible. The Instapaper app now features an iPad-specific article list interface it swaps out the simple headline-by-headline scroll for a more spacious grid arrangement, complete with the first few lines of the story. For reading on the go, however, the cached stories in the app are ideal.

#Instapaper app free

Instapaper's free web service allows you to flag stories to 'Read Later' with a single click, and you can always get your complete reading list via the site.

#Instapaper app upgrade

Like to read? Got an iPhone or iPad? You really ought to have Marco Arment's US$4.99 Instapaper, which just got an upgrade to version 4.0.