I moved from Pocket to Instapaper a little while ago (can’t remember why…something must have stopped working for me in Pocket). I don’t think Pocket has RSS - it’s a ‘read it later’ app. You put things (articles, videos, maybe PDFs) in your ‘pocket’ for later.
Ah, then that does not work for me then. I got RSS set up on my Kindle, but was looking to go over to Kobo.
Anyone know if Goodlinks does text to voice? I save local news articles to Instapaper and then listen to them while cleaning the house etc.
Goodlinks does not have built-in text-to-speech functionality.
Here’s my work-around: I go to the article I’ve saved in Goodlinks, open it in Safari, and then use the share sheet to open the article in Natural Reader. Natural Reader has a free tier, but since I rely on text-to-speech a lot, I’ve invested in an annual subscription (admittedly pricey at $120) to get access to the high-quality AI voices.
I test-drove the majority of the text-to-speech apps that were available on the App Store, and Natural Reader was the best of the lot. It offers more than text-to-speech: searching, bookmarking, highlighting, and asking an AI agent questions about the text (beta). It’s close to being a viable read-it-later app, but it’s not quite there.
I was interested in goodlinks until I read that it uses icloud to sync . I have separate icloud id’s for personal and work, and I want something that will let me access the same read it later list regardless of Apple id .
I might just stick with my idea of using Linkding(which I selfhost)’s rss feed feature with Reeder Classic to get good cross-apple-id read it later experience.
I’ll lose highlighting but that isn’t something I do. I copy any interesting info I find
into Obsidian notes.
Tried it and went back to Anybox.