Using Instapaper the way I’m now doing - saving links from RSS feeds mostly - is just terribly useful. I read most content in RSS and there are loads of things I encounter where a quick decision is needed: read now or come back to later.

The ability to save for later and then decide whether to permanently save, as it were, as well as tag is very handy. Some things I look at, I don’t think are worth saving or tagging. But you need to read that content in order to decide that.

I’m sure some people will think this is such a rigmarole. I find it useful.

Google Reader has very good functionality for sharing, I agree. But I don’t use Google Reader.

Anyhow, I can see you share your ‘whole’ bookmark system to the right hand side of the page. This has caused your ‘not wanting to share this yet’ issue perhaps?

I have discovered a simple way to share delicious information in a targetted way.

So, as an example, if I bookmark a page for ‘Andy’, and Andy is subscribed to the RSS feed for that particular Tag (a feed exits for each tag), he just gets any information marked for him. I do this without leaving my browser - small but significant point.

So, you could just have a tag and present the feed for that tag on this page instead?

Personally, I use Google Reader to ‘Share’ items (single click), on my blog - but it doesn’t allow me to add commentary to the link in the same way you do.

Link now up at the top left under ‘Subscribe.’

Andy, if a web-based reader works better for you, great.

As for FD, yes it does have quite a few features to save and/or mark articles for later attention or whatever you want to do with them. You can also automatically sync those saved and/or marked articles with NewsGator Online and read them in that web-based reader if you want.

For me, though, the point of Instapaper and how I can post things to it from FD is that I can save links to things I might want to look at but not necessarily add to other places where I keep and/or share things.

Is it a duplication? Well I guess so if I also post those things to other places. But I’m not doing that.

Unfortunately, I no longer have FD installed but I can’t believe FD doesn’t already have a ‘Save’/'Mark’ feature for articles you want to revisit later.

Some neat send-to addins you’ve referenced, btw.

Andy, that’s the point about Instapaper: what if you don’t want to share? It’s not being anti-social; it’s simply that you might encounter sopmething that looks kinda interesting, you don’t know if you want to tag or share it but you want to take a look at it. So you put it in a reading list for later that isn’t part of your shares.

That’s how I look at it and find it mighty useful!

not everyone is enamoured with Google Reader and prefer to use a desktop client like FeedDemon. These tips are geared more for that type of RSS consumer rather than a Googleite

I documented them in my post the other day http://www.winextra.com/2008/02/06/feeddemon-sendto-tips/

You may want to add them as options as well if you use either service.

However, like you, I spend most of my time in Google Reader and simply share items I want to, err, share.

Similarly, I just mark longer articles that look interesting to be read more fully at a later time, with a Star.