Using Pocket for Keeping Track of your Reading

Keeping track of what you'd like to read can be a full time job (if you're interested in this as a career path, come talk to us in ILS!) and it's something we're passionate about. After looking through your email, scrolling through Twitter and spending a leisurely 10 minutes on Facebook, you may well have seen several articles you'd be interested in reading further. After this digital feast, however, you  likely won't have the time or energy to explore each thing in-depth. There are a variety of tools available to keep track of what you'd like to read from all their various sources and in all their various formats (our support session on it introduces a number of useful and fun ones). Another one we haven't mentioned yet is Pocket.

As a part of their 10 Days of Twitter training program, our friends of TEL introduced me (Leah) to Pocket: a bookmarklet you can install in your browser which allows you to save any webpage immediately with a click of a button. Using Pocket, you might, for example, find and save a tweet or a journal article in one browser while at your desk, save it to your 'pocket' and read it later on your phone while riding the bus. Day 9 of TEL's Twitter program explains it well, have a look!