Tech Tip Tuesday - What's in Your Pocket?

As I became more paperless, I noticed that I would have 20 different tabs open in my web browser. I thought to myself, there has to be a better way to get back to the information that I wanted to read than leaving a bunch of tabs open in Chrome. (Which actually eats up your battery and slows down your computer.)

The best solution I came across is called Pocket. Pocket, originally called "Read It Later", lets you collect content from numerous sources and digest it later.
Click here for a quick overview video.

​For anyone that reads a lot of articles, I recommend taking a few minutes to check out pocket.  I find the text to speech option convenient; it allows me to listen to articles as I do chores, like mow the yard. 

Click below and sign up for an account to get started.
https://getpocket.com/

Below are some tips to get you started. What other apps you using to save your articles and online resources?

Ever advancing,
Ralph

Pocket Tutorials

Getting Started

• ​Where can I find my saved items

Signup for Pocket

• ​​Click here and enter your info. It's that simple

Download the Apps

Enjoy being able to access my pocket from whatever device I am using.

• iOS - Overview
• Android - Overview

Get Your Extensions

Pocket has a few browser extensions that makes it really simple to share with your pocket.

• Chrome
• Edge Browser

Share with Pocket

Here is an overview

• iOS
• Android
• Via email - Simply send an email to [email protected]

Read on your computer

Once you have signed up for pocket, you simply need to go to www.getpocket.com

Listen

You can actually have pocket read the article for you using the text to speech capabilities. ​