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Put It In My Pocket

Posted: Nov 10 2012 4 Replies

Put It In My Pocket

How the Pocket App saves me time.

I have the Pocket App extension for Chrome installed on my toolbar. When someone posts an interesting article on Twitter and I don’t have time to read, I simply put it in my Pocket for later. When I am on Facebook and friends are sharing awesome links, I can slip it into my Pocket for later when I have a few minutes to read. When I am working with clients and they send me to a very cool site, I simply, “Put It In My Pocket” for later. When I am reading the news in my various news apps on my tablet at night, I can save articles to read and share later (often I Buffer them at the same time).

I was hesitant to try one more thing, but this app seriously saves me time. I was pinning and buffering everything I found, but that did not give me ONE place to go back and read things. Pocket does that. It is consistent and easy to use.

My husband and I share our Pocket account and pocket things for each other. I can often be heard saying, “I put something in my pocket for you to read.” My husband and I joke about that all the time.

The best thing is, now I can read blog posts and news articles at my leisure. When I have a few minutes (usually right before bed), I pull up the Pocket App on my Nexus 7 tablet and read what I have put in my pocket.

It has seriously saved me time (I don’t go down as many crazy bunny trails anymore when I am supposed to be “working”) and it also saves me from having way too many tabs (like 30 plus) open all the time.

Check it out.

Here are the things that I can do: 

• save articles to read later.
• save reference materials for projects I am working on.
• read things in my pocket on my computer or tablet.
• save things from my tablet or my computer.
• read on my tablet, at night, all the articles I found during the day.
• have less tabs open in my browser.
• not lose things I really want to read.
• tag articles and read by topic.

Here is my process (you can figure out what works for you).

1. I have the Pocket App installed on my browser (Chrome) so I can pocket posts and pages as I come to them.
2. I have the Pocket App for Mac installed on my iMac so I can read on my computer.
3. I have the Pocket App installed on my Nexus 7 so I can read the things in my Pocket when I am away from the computer.

Pocket Apps To Install (as needed)

• Website (to read online)
• Chrome Extension
• iPad App
• Google Play Store (Android)
• Mac App

Questions for you

• What time savers do you use?
• What apps have helped you to be more productive?

This blog post was inspired by a comment that Amy made on her Facebook page. 

Honey

4 thoughts on “Put It In My Pocket”

Oh my gosh, this is perfect! I have just been right-clicking and opening things in new tabs that I want to come back and read or share later. But eventually I have too many tabs open, and then I can’t ever shut down my browser until I’ve done something with all those pages! I’m definitely trying this out, thanks for the tip!

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Hi Jessi,

You will love Pocket! This has solved my “so many tabs open it crashes my browser” issue. I hope it works for you.

Blessings
Honey

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HA! I am just now getting to reading this! (cuz I don’t have a pocket – lol) So, it looks like it will transfer from my computer to my iPad (which is really what appeals to me!) I’m pretty sure I used to have Read It Later which is what this apparently used to be. Very cool…going to try it out now! THANK YOU!

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