I have really come to love Instapaper! I've been putting a bunch of stuff up there from tweets over the past year and the website is fair enough but I just got into using the iOS app for it and it is fantastic.
Thanks also to Esther for explaining how the bookmarklet works; I would like to see if I can somehow integrate that into mail clients. On Sep 27, 2012, at 4:28 AM, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for this, Esther. I'd given up figuring out Istapaper, and I don't > give up easily.. I'm going to try it again with your instructions in hand. :) > > Teresa > On Sep 26, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Esther <mori...@mac.com> wrote: > >> Hi Emilio, >> >> The easiest way to put an Instapaper bookmarklet onto your Safari >> toolbar is to create the bookmark on your Mac, and then sync it to >> Safari on your iOS device. I should add that I found that the process >> of creating the Instapaper bookmarklet on your iPhone or iPad as >> described at the Instapaper site is also accessible, but it takes more >> steps to do. Start at the Instapaper extras web page: >> http://www.instapaper.com/extras >> >> Whenever you encounter instructions to drag and drop a bookmark to >> your Safari toolbar, simply use the contextual menu (VO-Shift-M) with >> the option to "Copy Link". Create a bookmark of the current page with >> the Command-D shortcut, and save it to the "Bookmarks Bar" in the pop >> up menu, with a name of your choice (e.g. "Read Later"). Then, >> navigate to that bookmark in the "Show All Bookmarks" page (brought up >> with Command-Option-B), use the "Edit Address" option of the >> contextual menu, and paste the link you copied into the address field. >> This works for javascript bookmarklets (such as the Instapaper >> Bookmarklet, or Google Translation bookmarklets), as well as regular >> bookmarks. If you have these as one of the first 9 entries in the >> Bookmarks bar, you can just use Command+1 for the first bookmark, >> Command+2 of the second and so forth. Using this shortcut will also >> run javascript bookmarklets. >> >> If you want to read step-by-step directions, I wrote these out in a >> mac-access list post at the end of last year. Here's the link to this >> post at the Mail Archive site: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access%40mac-access.net/msg05153.html >> >> HTH. Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On Sep 23, 6:52 am, Emilio Hernandez <emilio.s.hernan...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> Recently I have become a fan of Instapaper for iOS. >>> How can I drag the Instapaper read later feature to my Safari toolbar for >>> saving items to my account while using the Mac? >>> >>> Thank you for anyone help. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
