Save URLs for later with Quiet Read

Dave,

You wrote:

"What I disliked is that once an app is gone, it's gone. Instapaper saves read articles."

I think you meant:

"What I disliked is that once an URL (or link?) is gone, it's gone. Instapaper saves read articles."

Just a heads up, but thanks for the link. I'm installing it now!

Adam

Another bookmarklet and more alternative for saving urls, anything on the web page (as a note) and parsing recipes and products into data is http://springpadit.com. The "and more" features include pre-formatted templates for organizing and sharing the data.

(full disclosure; I'm a Springpad co-founder)

Anyone know of a Note program that uses the same Cloud and has a app for iPhone/OSX/PC? I've been using Simplenote on my iPhone, JustNotes for OS X, and Simplenote's web based site for PC, but I'd like an app for the PC if possible. A .txt file in my Dropbox has also been used time from time for this.

I don't understand… How is this different from a normal bookmark?

Why not use wget or curl. I often use wget to mirror a site I want to read later, works great! Especially useful if you want off line access to a site with a lot of files. For example an online API reference, online software manuals and other neat items.

On top of all that you get command line control. I supose that scares people off right there.


Dave

The really great thing about the Mac Development community is that there is almost always more than one tool for the same job -- as the author himself points out. Quiet Read brings a slightly different aesthetic to the task than the other apps and, if it complements your style of working, the simplicity of a minimal "menulet" approach could be everything you need.... with nothing extra in the way!

Personally, I love Evernote and it works with my style. The bookmarklets are complemented by browser-specific plugins and, if that weren't enough, Snow Leopard users now have context-menu Services to get copies of webpages into their notes.

I can even set up AppleScripts that, when combined with keyboard shortcuts, let me preserve URLs even quicker than the drag-and-drop approach designed above. For example, I wrote an AppleScript that makes a URL list of all my open tabs in Safari in an Evernote item: http://veritrope.com/tips/safari-tabs-to-evernote

The web-based aspect of Evernote also enabled me to create a Snow Leopard Service to search my Evernote database just by highlighting some text on a page and selecting "Search in Evernote" from the context menu:
http://veritrope.com/tips/snow-leopard-service-evernote-search
(and, by the way, also one for Amazon.com here: http://veritrope.com/tips/services/amazon-com-search-service-for-snow-leopard )

In the use-case scenario described in this post, I could see that coming in handy for those moments where you're asking yourself "Did I already make a note that I wanted to read that?"

I think people should try them all and go with the one that they actually USE in day-to-day browsing.... and I also agree with Anthony and Oliver above: the MacHeist promo is a great opportunity to check out another tool for the job for free -- and, hey, it'll also make Anthony a happy guy when the number of downloads allows him to unlock the MarinerWrite app! ;)

I'm very glad to see this since URLWell stopped development years ago. It was the last PPC app running in Rosetta for me. Officially deleted now.

Someone has beaten me to it but I will add that ShoveBox is a great application with a bit more customisation plus is free at the moment from MacHeist. Well worth trying as an alternative.

I'm more of a Read It Later guy, it works well and it also has an offline option on the iPhone

I prefer ShoveBox for that, it has the ability to save the entire webpage if I'm ever offline. It's free too right now over at the MacHeist nano. www.macheist.com

I'm not advertising I just want to be able to unlock MarinerWrite!