[Tool] Pocket (formerly known as Read It Later)

This formerly paid apps (now free) has one and only one function - save your page to be read later. Ladies and gentlemen, enter the Pocket!

It can save pages from apps, browser or from the computer.

The mechanism is simple. For pages from apps and browsers, click "Share" then "Add to Pocket". Voila! Now you can read the page that you have saved anytime anywhere without the need for an internet connection. Perfect for those who will be boarding a flight. Pages that you have saved will come out here:

Apart from that, considering how connected our world has become, this app is, in my opinion, rather redundant.

Having said that, Pocket does its one and only job exceptionally well. Look at the screen capture here:

For demonstration purpose, a page from this blog was saved from the mobile version of blogger. You can see that the page is rendered quite nicely.

One little niggling problem - after you add the page to Pocket, you must open the same page in Pocket to allow it to download the page. In other words, double work. If only Pocket can download the page automatically when you add the page to it.

Be that as it may, as a free app, it does its job well and if you need some offline reading, do get this app! Just remember to open the same page in Pocket to enable the same be downloaded into Pocket.

And as per customary, here is the promotional video: