FoxMarks and ReadItLater…
I’ve blogged about the FoxMarks add-on for Firefox before and about how great it is for synchronizing bookmarks across PCs. Well today I want to write a little about a small tweek you can make so that you can tag an Internet page for reading later - on ANY of you PCs! This means that say you come across something interesting at work but you don’t have time to read it, you can tag it for later and then when you get home it’ll show up on your home PC.
How does this work? Well you need two Firefox add-ons loaded. First FoxMarks as I mentioned. This just acts as a bookmark synchronizer. Then you need to load up ReadItLater. Now ReadItLater is pretty clever. It adds some context sensitive right clicking to web pages and also put a little button in your address bar so that you can manage the pages you’ve marked to read later. When you’re done with the page you simply mark it as read. Behind the scenes ReadItLater works alongside FoxMarks and creates a bookmark folder to store those temporary references in. But don’t worry about all the excess you may think will accumulate. The other thing the partnership does is to delete the bookmark as soon as you mark it read. Clever.
So now you can confidently mark pages to read later, manage them, and keep the list clean. Excellent!
