"toread" is a free email-based bookmarking service that you can use to save pages to read later. Bookmarking your "toread" web pages or pages that you want to read later is very easy. Just click the “toread” bookmarklet on your browser and you will receive an email with the link and the basic content of the page that you bookmarked or saved to read later.
If you combine “toread” with Gmail, it will be the best read-it-later service that is fast, free and easy to organize. I will specify the steps and the advantages of using this method.
- Register for “toread” with a Gmail address
- Create a filter in Gmail to skip the inbox and assign a specific label such as “later” when a mail arrives from “toread”.
- Now, drag and drop the “toread” bookmarklet on your browser’s bookmark bar.
Once the above setup is complete, you can bookmark or save a page to read later by just clicking on the bookmarklet. When you have free time to read the saved articles, just go to Gmail and access the messages with the label you gave above. All newly bookmarked items will be unread and once you read it, you can decide if you want to delete it or keep it unread etc.
I have tried several different read-it-later type of services to save websites that I want to read later and I always had one or the other issue with them. Finally I settled with the above setup. The advantages of this setup are :
- You don’t need to get used to one more interface. You can star, mark as read, mark as unread, delete and do everything else that you do with your email messages in your favorite interface of Gmail.
- Unlike some services that just save the URL, “toread” even saves the text of the site (partially). This is equivalent to offline capability.
- Search : Many read-it-later type of services fail to provide search functionality or it just sucks. With “toread”, you have the URL as well as content of the page in your Gmail. And Gmail search is the best. As you can also search by the text in your bookmarked page, search becomes easier.
- Access anywhere. If you have access to your email, you have access to your saved pages and bookmarks.
- No need to remember a new login and password.
Try it and let me know how you like it.
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