I’ve recently started using the bookmarking service “Pinboard” more actively as an alternative to Delicious. It seems as if Yahoo! really doesn’t care about Delicious all that much, and I want to be more in control of my data. Therefore I signed up for Pinboard and the developer keeps adding amazing features I’d wish others would take note of.
First off, it’ll cost you money (MONEY!) to sign up. I don’t remember how much I paid, but currently the price is $6.13 (the price is calculated as number of users * $0.001). This is to discourage spammers and support the costs of running the site, which are both valid arguments for such a nice service.
Another impressive feature set is the ability to auto-add shared items from Google Reader (mine), Twitter favorites (mine), Delicious bookmarks (mine) as well as toread items from Instapaper (mine as RSS). Essentially it saves stuff I mark as great from around the web. Very clever.
The last feature I want to highlight is two bookmarklets that was added yesterday: oldest and random. You can set Pinboard to tag some of your imported bookmarks with “toread” and when clicking either oldest or random, you’re taken to the oldest bookmark you need to read, or a random one.
I hope the features that are added in the future are of equal quality, and that the design gets a bit of an overhaul at some point…
Problem:
I like to read long blog posts. Many web designers like ads and small font sizes. That problem can be solved with the magnificent bookmarklet “Readability“.
I also like to save things for later (offline) reading with Instapaper’s “Read Later” bookmarklet, but then I still encounter the problem described above.
Solution:
If I could click “Read Later” and the RSS-feed found at my Instapaper-account could be run through Readability I’d be able to make beautiful PDFs for my reading enjoyment.
Question:
How can this be done? There must be great value in these tools, but alas – I’m not that technical of nature.
Is that something you might be interested in?