A “read later” list is an essential productivity tool. Sending articles to a separate app for later reading keeps you focused when you’re at work, and gives you something productive to do on your phone during downtime. But it’s easier to save an article than to read it, so stories on “read later” lists (like in the apps Instapaper and Pocket) tend to pile up. Here are three different strategies for getting through your reading list, and the tools to execute them.

Email newsletters are trendy right now, but they can be a lot. If newsletters are clogging up your inbox, here’s how to send them to Instapaper. (Plus a workaround for Pocket.)

It will come as no surprise that, as the editor of a website devoted to productivity, I'm obsessive about refining the details of my tech life to be certain every element is helping me get the job done. While I have software that I swear by (WriteRoom, Deckset, Evernote), I'm more of an evangelist for browser extensions.

My favourite Chrome extensions are lightweight, easy-to-install and usually free, but the effect they have on my productivity is profound. These are the extensions that I love most fervently and recommend most frequently.

I usually have about 90 articles in my Instapaper, and I’m OK with that. I get around to articles a month after everyone stopped talking about them. I look through my queue like it’s a ten-page diner menu, ignoring certain articles for weeks until I finally decide to read or delete.

It could be worse; once I had 500 unread articles. But if your reading list bums you out—if you wish you could declare bankruptcy on Pocket or Instapaper—then you should try the new competitor, Reading Queue.

Pocket, the leading app for saving articles to read later, has a new voice, the voice of Amazon Polly. And it’s good enough that you just might actually want to use it.

Woe is the Chrome user who has an overflowing Bookmark Bar - or worse, that single folder they use to store anything interesting they see online.

Stuck on a packed subway with no room to wrangle an actual book, I'll often pull out my smartphone to catch up on articles I've saved in my Pocket reading app. Unfortunately, being unsure whether it's a 400 or 14,000-word article means that fate dictates whether or not I finish what I'm reading before I'm off the train and walking to work.

Today, Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, has announced that it has acquired the popular bookmarking service, Pocket.

Bookmarking site Readability, one of the first read-it-later services, will shut down on September 30. After that, you won't be able to access the articles you've saved. Here's how to export your articles to Instapaper or Pocket.

Pocket, one of our favourite "read later" apps, has long been free to use without any ads. Starting soon, however, sponsored content will be showing up among your posts unless you're a premium user.

When it comes to "read it later" services that let you save articles today to read when you have time, you only have two serious options these days: Pocket and Instapaper. Both are great, but they have diverged a bit over the years and play to different strengths. Let's compare them, head-to-head.

Pocket is one of our favourite services for saving articles to read later. Today, the service has introduced a Recommended section with content customised to your saving and reading habits.

Web/Android/iOS: Pocket has always been a bookmarking service, but they're experimenting with a new way to find articles in a public beta, which is available right now to check out.

iOS: Pocket's new share extension in iOS is an awesome way to quickly save an article from any app. Finer Things in Tech also noticed that you can tag those articles if you're fast enough.

Pocket has long been one of our favourite services for saving articles and reading them later. But you can use Pocket for a lot more than just snatching up the occasional long read. Here's how to use Pocket like a pro.

Springpad, the awesome personal assistant for everything in your life, is sadly shutting down. However, you can import all your saved items into Pocket so you don't lose them.

Android/iOS: The bookmarking app Pocket was updated with a couple cool new features today, including support for Google account logins and offline Evernote sharing.

We've long been fans of Pocket, the bookmarking service that allows you to save stuff to read or watch later. Now, Pocket has added Highlights, an update that scans your saves and highlights the content most likely to interest you. We chatted with Pocket's founder Nate Weiner about the app's newest feature.

Read-it-later service Pocket has announced a redesigned web interface, which includes some handy new navigation tools as well as some sweet keyboard shortcuts.