Sometimes you do not have the time to read every article you run across on your BlackBerry. You may even lose links to sites and articles you genuinely wanted to visit, because you forget to save the links or the emails they came in. With Instapaper, BlackBerry users can save that information easily, and access it later at their leisure.
What is Instapaper?
Instapaper is a web-based tool, which allows you to save articles, links, emails, and documents to read later when. Once you send these items to Instapaper, you can access them from your PC, print them, export them to a spreadsheet, or read them on your Kindle, tablet or iPad. Instead of rifling through piles of paper, scrolling through hundreds of emails, or trying to find a bookmark among the hundreds you have collected, you can just hop on the Instapaper site to see all of the articles, files, and links you have sent there.
The best thing about Instapaper is that you can save information there in so many different ways. You can email messages directly to your account, send links from Google Reader or NetNewsWire, add an Instapaper bookmarklet to your browser's bookmarks toolbar, or install plug-ins or add-ons to your PC's Web browser that sync with the Instapaper site. Some Twitter clients even allow you to archive tweets there. Instapaper makes it really easy to retain the information that you want to from almost anywhere you found it.
Why BlackBerry Users Need Instapaper
Reading a lot of text on a smartphone screen is not ideal. Even the largest smartphone displays cause eyestrain or force you to constantly zoom in and scroll from right to left. If you find a page you want to read in depth on a bigger screen or at a later time, you can use your BlackBerry to send the page to Instapaper. If you get an email that you want to save indefinitely, just forward it to your Instapaper email address from your BlackBerry, and you can access it when you need to.
How to Use Instapaper From Your BlackBerry
- Go to the Instapaper site and create an account.
- Save your long secret Instapaper email address to your BlackBerry's Address Book.
- Install the Send to Instapaper BlackBerry app.
- Launch the app and enter your Instapaper login credentials.
- Start forwarding email to Instapaper and saving links to Instapaper from your browser:
- Forward email messages to your Instapaper email address.
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From your BlackBerry's browser, click the Menu button and choose Send to Instapaper.
Now you can avoid scouring your BlackBerry for links and emails by sending them to Instapaper. You also save yourself the pain of reading tiny text on a small screen and reduce your data usage. Just save important links and pages to Instapaper, so you can access them later.