One of the newer social media related apps I came across lately was Pocket. This is such an awesome little app that I had to share it. Its mind boggling simplicity, yet handiness makes it something everyone should at least check out.
Pocket is a free read-it-later app for power users. In its simplest form you basically use it by saving a web page (such as an article, blog, etc.) to Pocket, where you can then access it later again for either reading the actual article or for using as reference. Pocket also lets you save image links and video links.
Apart from using it as a quick on-the-go web page library for referencing, I mainly use Pocket to store interesting sounding blog articles from sources such as FaceBook, Google+, RSS Feeds etc. after which I can then sit and read quietly on my iPad at the end of the day or week.
You can subscribe to Pocket on the internet, but is also available on iOS and Android. One account is syncronised over all platforms. Pocket also offers browser extensions for Chrome, Safari and Firefox.
What I also like about Pocket is the organising through tags ability. This lets you keyword your articles so that you can later tap on those tags and not have to rely on search, or muddle through a hundred saved articles.
If you’re full of cash, you can sign up for Pocket Premium ($5 a month or $45 a year). For the majority of features it doesn’t sound like a good deal. What is nice about Premium though, is the ability to store a permanent copy of the articles you save. You can then obviously access these articles offline or even if the articles disappear from the internet, you still have an archive.
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