15 Pocket Features You May Not Know About

is a service that allows you to save interesting articles, videos and websites that you find on the Internet with one click. In general, those materials that you would like to look at and read more attentively at a more convenient time. In addition, the service has hidden capabilities that you may not be aware of. Let's talk about them, as well as applications and services that will simplify your work with Pocket.

How to save links to Pocket

If you want to save the article, the fastest way is to click on the Pocket button in your browser or use the mobile app. You probably already know about these methods. But it is possible to save emails and links to Pocket without pressing anything.

1. Send an email

A life hack for those who always have a mail window open: to save the link, just paste it into the body of the email and send it to [email protected]. Send letters from the mail to which you have linked your Pocket account.

However, a Pocket account can be linked to more than just one mailing address. Go to settings, open the "Email Addresses" tab and add addresses of other mailboxes.

2. Add the Save All Tabs to Pocket extension to save tabs

Save All Tabs to Pocket for Google Chrome browser allows you to save all open tabs at once. Just press a button and links are sent to Pocket. Therefore, you can always exit the browser and not worry that the necessary materials will be lost.

3. Save link lists with Batch Save Pocket

Batch Save Pocket is also an extension for Google Chrome that allows you to save the entire list of links from the selected text at once, instead of following each link and clicking on it. The extension automatically fetches all links and sends them to the Reading List. In addition, you can add tags to each item - then it will be easier to navigate in them.

4. Use Zapier to add links automatically

- a service that works on the same principle as IFTTT, that is, it allows you to build relationships between various web applications. It can be used to set up automatic saving of links to Pocket. For example, you add a tweet you like to your favorites, and it is automatically saved to Pocket without any additional action.

Zapier will help integrate Pocket with many different web services and sites. For example, you can link Pocket to apps like Wunderlist, Trello, Evernote and turn individual articles into tasks. This is useful if you are writing a research paper or article with a large list of sources.

You can send articles from Pocket with the appropriate tag to Evernote and add your own notes to each part. Or share your Reading List with your peers on Trello so that everyone can read the material.

How to organize your reading list

After you've added a few articles to your Pocket list, you'll want to get them organized. The service offers several tools for this: filter content by type (article, video or image), add tags, add to favorites and archive what you read. But there are other tools for this.

5. Sort articles by reading time

The service shows how long it will take to read a saved article. The service allows you to filter materials. For example, you can find all articles, which will take less than 10 minutes to read.

Thus, you decide how much time you can devote to reading on your own, and Read Ruler provides you with a list of articles from Pocket that you can read in both 5 minutes and 2 hours.

6. Use batch editing

Archiving, adding to favorites, deleting and tagging articles one by one is a long time. Do this with several elements at the same time. To do this, Pocket has a group editing tool. It is marked with a pencil icon in the upper right corner of the web version. Click on it, select the items you want to edit, and then apply the changes to all articles at once.

7. Remember the hotkeys

If you are reading Pocket articles in a browser or program, use the following keyboard shortcuts to navigate your content faster:

Archive: a.
Add to favorites: f.
Batch editing: g, then b, then use the mouse to highlight the items you want.
Increase text size: Command and + or Ctrl and +.
Decrease text size: Command and - or Ctrl and -.
Show original web page: o.

8. Read articles even when there is no internet

The Pocket app for iOS, Android, Mac and Chrome lets you view articles anywhere, anytime, even without an internet connection.

To do this, launch the Pocket app when Wi-Fi or internet on your phone is on, and the articles will download. When your smartphone or laptop is offline, you can read them.

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9. Listen to articles when you don't feel like reading

For those who like to listen to podcasts rather than read articles, a little surprise: the Pocket mobile app can read any article out loud.

Open the article, choose "Text to Speech" from the menu. You can choose the native Google speech synthesizer or download additional modules. Read more about using this feature on iOS and Android in our.

10. Install the Outread app to read faster

Outread for iOS helps you read faster without losing your sense of the meaning. The app syncs with Pocket: select an article and Outread guides you through the text using a marker that highlights individual sections. You can adjust the speed of movement of the marker for yourself.

How to set up receiving reminders

If your list of articles is growing faster than you can read them, there are several convenient ways to get reminders of what's going on in your account.

11. Receive notifications via PocketRocket

The app will send you one unread article by email every day. You just set the time when the alert should come. Once submitted, PocketRocket will automatically archive the article.

12. Set up receiving multiple articles by mail

If you want to read more than one article per day, the service is for you. How ReRead works is similar to PocketRocket - it sends you reminders about unread articles by email. But you can independently manage the content of these letters.

In the settings, you can specify how many links you want to receive per day - from 1 to 10. You can also mark how many new articles you want to receive (from 3 months to 1 year) and whether you need to archive these articles after sending them to the mail.

13. Install the AcceleReader extension

The AcceleReader extension not only shows you unread articles, but also calculates how long it will take to read (like the Read Ruler service). In addition, it allows you to filter materials by length and originality.

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How to share your articles

Favorite articles can be added to favorites and shared on social networks. This makes it easy to share information with friends and colleagues.

14. Share your recommendations

At first, Pocket was created as a service exclusively for reading articles. But more recently, it has more opportunities to interact with other users.

You can directly send the material you like to a specific user or share recommendations with your followers in Pocket, post a link to the article on social networks, or send it to a friend by email.

You can view your profile at getpocket.com/@USERNAME replacing USERNAME with your nickname. This page will display all the articles that you recommend. Send this link to friends who are not registered with Pocket, but with whom you would like to share your findings.

15. Maintain the same account with a friend or colleague

Remember you can add other email addresses to your account? So you can keep one account with another person: add articles and read one list of materials.

The disadvantage of this method is that too much junk and articles that are not personally interesting to you may appear in your account. Awkward situations are also possible: you or your friend can delete or archive stories that another person desperately needs. Therefore, if you want to use Pocket in a team, arrange it in advance. For example, that all old articles you will archive once a week.

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