Pocket Party

I'm officially a Pocket convert! Convert is probably not the correct word, as I didn't have a good bookmarking method before, but I am newly obsessed with Pocket. I wasn't sure it was something I would actually use/find useful at first, but I'm happy to report that I was wrong wrong wrong.

I played around with it a little last week, but I managed to catch some kind of bug over the weekend that put me out of commission, so I got a chance to poke around the web more than usual, which allowed me to utilize Pocket more.

I'm a huge fan of narrative non-fiction and longform journalism and Pocket has saved me from myself - I no longer need to have 40+ tabs open on Safari on my iPhone. But I also don't worry about losing articles I find on Twitter but want to save for later in order to keep scrolling through my feed. (I'm so stoked not to have to shuffle through 30 tabs of Safari articles to find a particular piece I want to read!)

I especially like that all of the article in Pocket show up in a modified reader mode so I don't have to worry about accidentally clicking a link while I read. Another feature I really like is that I'm able to still interact socially with an article as I've linked my Twitter account to my Pocket account. It's a really convenient way to retweet an article even if it's a few days after I originally saw it on Twitter.

I've followed a few folks on there, but haven't yet delved much into the recommendation side of the app. (I think I will mostly use it as a personal curation app rather than a platform to discover new content.) But that said, I'm always happy to find more good reading recs. Do you all have any follow recommendations?

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