5 useful extensions for the Pocket service

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

What functions does the proprietary Pocket extension for the Google Chrome browser have? What, just adds the page to the read-to-read list ?! It's funny guys! Check out what the third-party extensions we are talking about in this review can do.

Batch Save Pocket

This extension will allow you to save multiple links at once. For example, if you opened a page containing a list of links to interesting articles, lessons, or book chapters, then earlier you would have to click on each of them and send them to Pocket. After installing Batch Save Pocket, it will be enough to select the desired section of the text. Any links it contains will be automatically extracted and sent to your reading list.

Quora - Save to Pocket

Quora is one of the most popular Q&A services, where you can find information and help from thousands of users. At the same time, some of the answers here are so detailed and interesting that they can easily pull on a full-fledged article. However, the interface of this service is not very readable. Extension Quora - Save to Pocket, as the name implies, will help you save any topic from Quora to the Pocket list for easy study.

Pickpocket

The Pickpocket extension can be a full-fledged replacement for the standard Pocket button for you. With its help, you can not only add the necessary links to the read deferred list, but also see all the elements stored there in a pop-up window. There is also an opportunity to mark the article as read, add it to favorites or remove it from the list altogether. Clicking on the title of an article will open it in an easy-to-read form in a new browser tab.

AcceleReader

I recommend installing this extension to all active users of the Pocket service. It adds a whole host of features that make Pocket much more comfortable to use. Firstly, now, next to the title of each article, you will see the approximate value of the time required to read it. Secondly, it becomes possible to sort articles by their duration and novelty. And thirdly, the extension button will be able to show you the number of unread articles, has several customizable actions and is able to save articles even when there is no network connection (with subsequent synchronization).

Pocketlight

I am sure that among our readers there are people who save not only entertaining reading, but also serious work in Pocket. To carefully study such content, they would benefit from the ability to select fragments of text with automatic adding this place to bookmarks. In this way, you can highlight important ideas, difficult to understand places or quotes you like. The Pocketlight extension gives us this opportunity. After installing it, two new buttons will appear in the Pocket interface: a marker and a list. With the help of the first, you will switch to the selection mode, and the second is responsible for displaying all the fragments you selected to the right of the article. An excellent feature that lacks only synchronization and export of the made notes to some text file.

Some of the functions implemented in these extensions would be useful to introduce into the standard Pocket set. Moreover, its creators promised us a big update soon and even offered to participate in testing it. What would you add to Pocket?