Catchya LaterLoop!
I just found out about this slick service called LaterLoop. It’s a free and handy way to save things you find online and return to for later reading. I love the way it integrates with Firefox and I think you will, too.
It’s a Firefox plugin that provides you with a way to easily mark something as an item of interest that it will save to your LaterLoop account. There are just two simple things you need to remember.
Save your stuff
When you want to save something, you can click on the icon provided in bottom-right corner of your Firefox browser. But there’s an even better way to do that by way of a keyboard shortcut. Find something you like? Just press CTRL+Spacebar and you’re done! If you have more than one tab open and you press CTRL+Spacebar+Spacebar, the information is saved AND the tab closes by itself.
View your stuff
When you’re ready to read the stuff you saved, you just right-click on that icon in the bottom-right and select “Your LaterLoop” and you’re swiftly taken to your list of saved links (click here for a sample). While there, you can mark things with stars to indicate that you want to do something with that bit of information later. You can even use this on your iPhone and other smartphones.
I posted a while back about another Firefox add-on called ReadIt Later. I haven’t been too pleased with it lately. Either it’s faulty, or perhaps the data it has saved for me has become corrupt because I have maybe a dozen or so saved articles, but it doesn’t allow me to go through them. I’m giving LaterLoop a try for now.
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Dennis Edell | May 25, 2008 | Reply
Another alternative to favorites?
I use IE anyway, but honestly that’s all it sounds like…except for the phone thing perhaps.
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Mark | May 25, 2008 | Reply
@Dennis
I don’t think it would be a replacement to favorites, unless you routinely save off a few bookmarks to your list of favorites in IE.
I find myself using my favorites only for a few things I frequently visit. When I need to dig deeper, I go through my Diigo account. With LaterLoop, I don’t think it’s designed to store things indefinitely. Besides, there’s no way to search or tag like you can in Diigo and its ilk.
Liz | May 27, 2008 | Reply
That’s actually a great way to keep my favorites from getting cluttered with a bunch of stuff I don’t actually need to save in the long-term. Very cool!
Mark | May 27, 2008 | Reply
@Liz
That’s exactly what I was thinking!
Forest | May 27, 2008 | Reply
hey this looks great. I have been using Reminder Fox for a similar thing. Mixing a ToDo list with websites that i need to go back to. You just right click the site and select add to reminder and it puts a link in your ToDo list.
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Mark | May 28, 2008 | Reply
@Forest
Hey there, Forest. Glad you like it. I’ve heard of that add-on. Sounds interesting. I go through times where I like to try those kinds of things and see which one sticks.
Zath | May 29, 2008 | Reply
I always like the idea of these kind of things to prevent me having 150 tabs open at once, however I then up saving all these links, ideas etc and then have a huge task to work through it again or I never go back to it again because the thought of having to sift through it all scares me that much!
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Mark | May 29, 2008 | Reply
@Zath
I’m already finding myself just socking these links away. I’ve got to make more time to read them so I can keep my list manageable.