Must Have Features in a Read Later Service

Read later service for me should have these features and attributes.

  1. Be cloud-based to enable access and syncing across different devices and platforms.
  2. Support metadata (tags, folders & description).
  3. Offer a well-designed share sheet implementation on iOS and iPadOS.
  4. Offer a great browser extension.
  5. Offer a native mobile application.
  6. It should work well with my go-to RSS reader, Inoreader.
  7. Be good at data mobility. In other words, it offers a data export option.
  8. Support article summarization with generative AI.
  9. Should be free if possible.
  10. It must support all Apple platforms.

Inoreader check them all.

Can you say Chaps?

Intriguing new product coming from the makers of Craft: Chaps. It seems to be a conversational service where users can build their own AI-based agents. Not integrated with Craft in any way, at least for now. The demonstrated UI seems polished as we can expect from them, but sadly we don’t get to see how those agents are built. I think “Ch_apps_” would have been a better name than “Chaps”, though. I hope they don’t get too much distracted from Craft because it still needs a lot of work and long-lasting issues are yet to be addressed.

Each time I select a few emails in Outlook at the office and then move them into a folder I think of Severance’s employees working on their computer to gather numbers and drop them in a bucket. Every. Single. Time. And now you’ll probably do, too. You’re welcome.

Looking at iOS 18.5 and I find that Apple is slow at iterating on AI. Nothing really new in AI. No mention of model improvements. Only a few things like turning off Mail automatic classification. I would have expected a much faster pace.

When are we going to stop referring to Musk as the richest man in the world. First, we don’t care as much as it sounds. Second, he’s probably the poorest man in the world if anything.