Pinterest recently hit a milestone of 150 million monthly active users, overtaking Twitter (at least in the United States) in the process. Its services will no doubt come in handy for Pinterest, which boasts 75 billion pins, making discovery tools that suggest new items to users integral to its success. The Instapaper team is currently working with its parent company to build indexing and recommendation technologies. “The Pinterest team is working on unique technical challenges, and their collective skill will add tremendous value to Instapaper,” stated Instapaper CEO Brian Donohue in his announcement regarding the merger earlier this year. The changes indicate that its parent company is committed to the app and, as promised, is allowing Instapaper to operate independently. The first update came in September, when the app overhauled its search experience for iOS. ![]() This is the second major change to Instapaper since its takeover by Pinterest just over two months ago. Pinterest claims all current Premium subscribers will receive a prorated refund in the coming months. Instapaper is available for iOS and Android. Additionally, users can now apply the speed reading function to an unlimited number of articles, “send to Kindle” via bookmarklet and mobile apps, and create Kindle digests of up to 50 articles. There’s also the ability to save unlimited notes and create text-to-speech playlists of saved articles. ![]() Instapaper users can now benefit from full-text search functionality that applies to all saved, and archived articles. Instapaper Premium previously cost $3 per month (or $30 per year). Having acquired Instapaper in late August, Pinterest is now scrapping the subscription version of the app and integrating its exclusive features into its regular offering.įounded in 2008, Instapaper allows for the saving of online articles to read later, and offers a clean interface free from the clutter and formatting found on web pages. I like Pocket but not sure I should use that when Raindrop does most of the functionality, just without a tailored interface. So now I'm just using OneNote for notes and Raindrop for both bookmarks, read laters and moodboards. I've read the article on your blog of how rewarding it is after learning, but I'm not sure I should spend much time going through a learning curve at this moment in time? Just simple stuff like making OneNote-style notes or uploading/embedding images seemed hard. ![]() I wanted to like it was was a little disappointed because of how difficult it was to use. Pocket however holds the advantage of being tailored for reading articles, so I've been using both but am trying to somehow rid of Pocket. The user interface of Raindrop is brilliant, bookmarking is rapid, and there is even a 'moodboard' style view where you can have a nice Pinterest-like gallery of images. However then I looked at Raindrop which was even cooler. Having acquired Instapaper in late August, Pinterest is now scrapping the subscription version of the app and integrating its exclusive features into its regular offering. I tried Pocket first and loved it as it was easy to store articles and it has a nice interface tailored for reading. ![]() I've also been trying to find the best tool, for 1) bookmarks, 2) reading/saving articles, 3) images as a reference/moodboard, to replace my system of OneNote and Pinterest. Hey /u/Jfmartin67, thanks for the article.
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