Read It Later

Thanks to AddThis support, you can now save pages to your list directly from over 500,000 websites.

On any site that uses the popular sharing widget (example to the right), you’ll now find Read It Later listed as an option.  Simply select Read It Later and it’ll drop the item into your reading list.  The next time you share a page, RIL will be listed at the top of your options.

The widget is customizable and can be added to any site.  For more, check out AddThis.

Reeder, a clean and simple Google Reader client for the iPhone now supports saving to Read It Later.

Reeder syncs with your Google Reader account and pulls in your feeds for easy consumption on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

For more, check out a more in-depth review of Reeder on MacStories.

To save to Read It Later after installing Reeder, open an article you want to save for later, tap the share icon and select ‘Read It Later’ from the share menu.

Bulletin makes use of Read It Later’s Open API that lets any developer make Read It Later applications.

The ability to save links to Read It Later has been added to Bulletin, a Google Reader client for the iPhone.

Bulletin’s top features are:

• Two way sync allows you to view up to 1,000 unread items on your device
• Star, share and like items individually from the detail view
• Create and share notes, either by themselves or linked to a news item
• Simple offline browsing for viewing items in areas without internet access
• Built in web browser to view original links without having to leave the app
• Share links via Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Read It Later and email

To enable Read It Later after installing Bulletin, open the Settings app, tap Bulletin and switch ‘Enable Read It Later’ to on.

Bulletin makes use of Read It Later’s Open API that lets any developer make Read It Later applications.

Developer Shalom Craimer has created a simple Read It Later extension for Chrome.

The extension add the Read It Later checkmark to Chrome’s location bar.  (Similar to how it is seen in the Firefox extension.)  This makes adding/marking pages just as fast as it’s Firefox counterpart.

The project is also being hosted on Google Code so that others can contribute to it.

If Google Chrome is your browser of choice, and you’ve been using the Read It Later bookmarklets, you might want to give ChromeRIL a try!  Note: You will need the latest developer build of Chrome to use extensions.

ChromeRIL makes use of Read It Later’s Open API that lets any developer make Read It Later applications.

As of today, I am taking on Read It Later full time.  You can read more about it here:

Idea Shower: Going All In

Thank you all for your support over the last two years and for making this dream even remotely possible.

Version 2.0 Beta 3 for Firefox is now available for download.

Beta 3 contains over 100 fixes, tweaks, and improvements over beta 2.  Things should be much faster and much more stable.  If you’ve reported a bug, it should now be resolved.

A couple of improvements worth noting:

• Recently Read is now searchable and sortable.
• Offline downloading should be faster and there should be no visible slowdown in the browser while it’s running.
• You can right click an item in your list to share it
• In Firefox’s bookmark organizer, right click any bookmark folder and import it into Read It Later
• Ability to erase your local list and data
• Resolved long-standing keyboard shortcut issue on Mac w/ alt key
• Ability to disable individual keyboard shortcuts

How to Get It

1. Please read these notes.  It will be a pain to downgrade back to 0.9 if you go to 2.0.
2. Save this file to your computer
3. From the Firefox menu select File -> Open File
4. Browse to the saved file and open it

MobileRSS, a RSS reader for the iPhone that syncs with Google Reader has added support for Read It Later.

While scanning through your feeds, you can now save pages you find directly to RIL.

Read It Later support is available in both the free and paid versions of MobileRSS.

MobileRSS makes use of Read It Later’s Open API that lets any developer make Read It Later applications.  For a list of other applications and RSS reader with Read It Later support, check out the Apps Using Read It Later.

This fall is brought to you by the number 2.

As I feverishly work on version 2.0 of Read It Later (an upgrade to every aspect of the service), RIL has surged past 2,000,000 registered users.

Thank you all for your support.  It’s been fun working on a tool that I love, but it is even better that others love it too.

Developer Mark Lowne may have just resolved one of the most requested features for Read It Later: a native Android client.

Using the Read It Later Open API that lets developers create their own Read It Later applications, Mark has developed an app called Paperdroid that allows you to sync your reading list to your Android phone and view it offline (similar to the Read It Later iPhone app and Firefox extension).

Mark is currently seeking beta testers, so if you have Android and want to try it out, visit http://latedroid.com or email Mark at m@latedroid.com

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Tweetie 2.0 just hit the app store with support for saving to Read It Later.

Outside of RIL support, the new version brings a large number of improvements from 1.0 that are definitely worth upgrading for.

Tweetie makes use of Read It Later’s Open API that lets any developer make Read It Later applications.