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Notes for Later is a super-fast way to email links to yourself
The problem of "saving stuff for later reading" is a known issue, with several established solutions. You've got Read It Later, Instapaper, Delicious, Diigo (including "unread bookmarks" functionality), and a ton of other alternatives.
Notes for Later differentiates itself by being super-minimalistic. Your email client is your reading list; if you use Gmail, you can just create a filter to label all of the "notes for later," and keep the ones you haven't read as "Unread" in Gmail itself.
The application itself is just a snippet of JavaScript, and it's neatly packaged as a bookmarklet. You feed it with your email address, and you get a link. You then click the link to get your own personalized bookmarklet.
Drag the bookmarklet onto your address bar, and every time you click it, the current page is emailed over to you. There are no prompts, no tags to feed, and no notes to enter. One click – that's all. If you happen to select any text from the page, a snippet of that text (not necessarily all of it) is included in the email.
It couldn't really get much simpler or cross-browser than this!
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Subscribe to commentsKeseySep 10th 2010 10:06PM
Don't really see how this is any more cross-browser than Instapaper. Who wants their inbox cluttered?
CherylSep 11th 2010 11:15AM
Email is something many people check constantly. It's easy to set up labels/folders/filters/archives/whatever so that your email isn't cluttered.
Plus, it's not a separate service that you need to sign into. If you use email, all of your notes will be there already! Instapaper is a wonderful service, but it's ANOTHER service, and ANOTHER login, whereas notes is just there.
Cheers!
--Cheryl
[notes for later design/publicity]
JayenkaiSep 11th 2010 5:08AM
... So, an "Email" button, then?
Not to be a total twonk, but.. I have one of those.
It says Email on it.
My iPhone has one, too.
..
It says Email on it.
CherylSep 11th 2010 11:05AM
But clicking that email button sends you to your email. Hooray. That's not exactly what this service is.
The service is more like a favorite button that sends information about the site (and optionally, what interested you about it) to your email.
You can totally do the same thing with just your email button, but that requires signing in, composing a new message, copying and pasting, typing in a message, sending it to yourself... notes is one click. If you do that sort of thing often, it's much faster. If not, enjoy your email button.
[full disclosure: i'm the design/publicity half of notes for later]
TaomynSep 14th 2010 5:39AM
Hmmm.... all I ever do in Firefox is right-click the page, hit "Send link...", it opens a compose email for Gmail, I enter my own address (usually just the first few characters as the rest just appears) and then send it. It fills in the subject with the page title and the body with the link.
Nearly as simple, I think you have to have been logged into Gmail for it not to prompt you for a password, and without the need to give a 3rd party your email address.
GSep 28th 2010 10:05PM
Easy and nice tool ; dont know how much I will use it but it is a convenient way to grab selected text from webpages in only 1 (not 2) click without having anything to write (a lot better than clicking 10 times and typing your own name and opening a new page and so on). Just give your email and save the bookmarklet.
This way, with one click you get the text (don't want to read it, the layout is impossible) + the link + you are independant from any webservice. When using a gmail acount, you get the google search engine.
Maybe I will use it as a (very basic) archive tool for some pages I want to keep.