Pocket

I read a lot of news and blogs on the internet. I have dozens of news sites and news apps that I go through everyday as my routine with my phone, tablet, and PC. But of course, I don’t read every single one of them at once. I skim through websites and apps looking for interesting articles to read, but then I keep them somewhere to read it later, in my “Pocket”.

It works like this:

– When you encounter an article (it can be any kind of website) on either a smart phone, tablet, or a PC browser,  send it to Pocket.

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Then, Pocket will store the webpage on a cloud database and sends it to your Pocket app on your phone and tablet when it has internet connection.

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– The webpage will be saved on your phone, so you can see the webpage whenever you want even if you don’t have internet connection.

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– You can change the browsing setting on Pocket, so if you want to read the article with black background and white and large text, it’s possible.

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There are some downsides of this app. In order to send a webpage from a PC browser, you need to download an extension. If you want to send it from a browser on your phone or tablet, you need to make a bookmarklet. Sometimes a news app such as Reuters doesn’t support “Save to Pocket” function, but often times those apps have their own offline reading function.

However the capability to save a webpage from almost any platform and read them offline on a smart phone or a tablet is a powerful functionality that Pocket offers, especially in a world where we don’t have internet connection all the time and often times we suffer from webpage loading time.