Bookmarking/Read It Later services vs Safari Bookmarks?

I just recently switched from Instapaper to Pocket and from Pocket to Reeder 4 for all my reading purposes: rss and RIT. Federico Viticci was doing this on AppStories and it sounded sensible.

I’m still saving way more articles in Reeder Read It Later service than I should. But this one less app and I don’t need the integratoin with IFTTT or Zapier.

I do need the ability to read articles a loud. Pocket has a really good feature for doing this in Danish, which Instapaper couldn’t do. But when I saved an article from one of the Danish newspapers that I read, then it always open in the article view, which would not let me utilise the Pocket read aloud feature.

So whenever I want to listen to article now, I share it from Reeder’s Read It Later or RSS to Voice Dream and I can listen to it from there. It’s a great app with really good support for reading aloud in all languages.

I also have two shortcuts that I can share to from Safari or Reeder that will read aloud in either Danish or English, which makes it faster than going into Voice Dream, but its with iOS System Voice so it’s not nearly as good.

I also occasionally share stuff Reeder RSS by starring the item through FeedWrangler and then having that sent to Tumblr as a draft through IFTTT.

I could do the same with Pocket and articles saved for reading later, but I just use the iOS share sheet from Reeder to Tumblr and that saves it as a draft also.

I use bookmarks solely for websites that I visit often or I need to remember. I store those in Safari.

So if I’m working on something then I go to the bookmarks and they are sorted by folders and I can open all the tabs on that thing I’m working on.

That’s pretty much my thing. I have a Pinboard account but I never really used it for anything. I used to just save all articles from Instapaper to Pinboard that I added, but I never really used it at all.

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