![]() ![]() Once that was done for the first set of articles, I’d simply reload and do it again for the next set of 500, going all the way back to 2009. Anything I didn’t know what to do with got archived, which is as simple as selecting and typing A in ReadKit. I even read a few of them as I went through this process. At first I started filing away articles I know I want to revisit soon into folders (which I also reorganized, but you don’t want to hear about that) and spent some time deleting obviously superfluous articles. So at any given time this smart folder had some 470 articles in it. The Unread folder under ReadKit’s Instapaper header is limited to 500 articles at a time (by Instapaper). Here’s what it looks like: Older than 1 Month The Smart Folder that I created to clean up Instapaper was very simple: collect any unread article in Instapaper that hasn’t been added in the last month. They can even trigger notifications, which could be useful if you’re waiting for specific news via RSS. Smart Folders can search across accounts, so you could have quick access to any article that had, say, “movies” in the headline or body in all of your accounts. I’ve barely scratched the surface of their potential, but they pack a punch. Just like the smart folders in Mail, ReadKit allows you to create extremely powerful folders based on granular searches of the content you have loaded into the app. ![]() Once I knew my bookmarks were mostly backed up to Pinboard, I used one of ReadKit’s new power features: Smart Folders. But it had become the cold storage over time. Instapaper, in contrast, should be the place I go to read interesting things, the sort of beaten path along which I travel. I don’t mind loading it up with superfluous (and probably redundant) bookmarks. Making sure I wasn’t going to do any irreparable damage, I exported my bookmarks (limited to the most recent 2000 articles) out of Instapaper and imported them into Pinboard.īecause why not? Pinboard is the safe deposit box of my Internet wanderings, my cold storage, if you will. I basically decided to declare Instapaper bankruptcy and admit that I probably won’t read the thousands of unread articles in my account. When I fly, I ritualistically load it up with long reads to keep me occupied en route, instead of, you know, reading the months’ worth of great articles already there. I would open it up on my iPad and want to read everything but not know where to start, so I’d close it and go do something else. For the past many months (years?) I’ve become overwhelmed with the unending stream of unread articles in the app. I would save articles to it, and maybe I would read them, maybe not. In the four years since I started using Instapaper, I never thought to clean it up. I’ve tried the competition, but Marco Arment, Instapaper’s creator, always did an amazing job at heading off the other apps and making a simply great app for reading articles on a digital device. When the iPad came out (and I bought one) I finally made the upgrade to Instapaper Pro, and it is without question the best $5 (!) I’ve ever spent. I used the service constantly to queue up morning reads on the subway. I first got Instapaper Free way back in January 2009. I can’t recommend it highly enough on this front. Overnight it has changed the way I use the service. That said, ReadKit is a brilliant Instapaper client. This isn’t the first Fever client I’ve had issues getting sync to work with though, so I imagine it’s a combination of all three. It could be my server, Fever’s API or ReadKit itself. I don’t know where the bottleneck occurs. I’ve got 251 feeds trying to get one sync to complete took an inordinate amount of time. Unfortunately, right now ReadKit is unusable as a Mac Fever RSS client for me. ReadKit seemed like a bargain as a catch-all app. Currently I have a Fluid app for Fever, which works well, though I’d rather have a native app for reading RSS. As a Fever user myself, this was the main feature that got me to plunk down $5. This update turns ReadKit into an RSS client, including sync capabilities for Fever and NewsBlur. Fundamentally, ReadKit is a Mac client for Instapaper, Pocket, Readability, Delicious and Pinboard. Yesterday I bought ReadKit, an app that’s only been around since January but nonetheless made the jump to 2.0 this week. ![]()
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