Save is not finished yet — on Read It Later apps | by Gua | Medium

At their core, Read It Later applications, such as Pocket and Instapaper bookmark the things we want to come back to, whenever and wherever we’d like. Of course The Internet Needed a Save Button, but what is actually needed changes over time. In 2007, a list view solution, synchronization on different platforms and offline reading was a great experience transformation of how we managed content on the internet, for a signle-player mode. But, the core tools we use today for managing content on the Internet — Browse, Search, Share and Save— still can not solve the problem for people and teams/groups who actively searching web content on different topics to work on it later and needs a place where collaboratively manage and effectively consume web content. It seems like, we moved the problem from ‘I want to save web content to read it later and can’t’ to ‘yes, but I want working on it later experience, individually and collaboratively with others’. Listening to users won’t tell you what to

At their core, Read It Later applications, such as Pocket and Instapaper bookmark the things we want to come back to, whenever and wherever we’d like. Of course The Internet Needed a Save Button, but what is actually needed changes over time. In 2007, a list view solution, synchronization on different platforms and offline reading was a great experience transformation of how we managed content on the internet, for a signle-player mode. But, the core tools we use today for managing content on the Internet — Browse, Search, Share and Save— still can not solve the problem for people and teams/gro