Skip.life — The “Read it Later” service for people too busy to Read It Later
I enjoy a good, steamy hot take as much as anyone, I just don’t always have the time right now. That’s why I use Instapaper. Or, used to use.
Because my Instapaper reading list grew faster than I would read whatever I would put in it, every visit became more about feeling guilty than enjoying taking the ;dr part out of the tl blog posts.
So I moved to Pocket.
And what a relief! Just me and a completely fresh Pocket archive, empty of articles and guilt. Ready to be filled with longreads of whatever we are very, very concerned about this week.
And so I quickly began throwing anything in there. I even added my friends as friends and added a few of their recommendations. Some of them had many and that made them seem just the kind of smart that I want to be.
Until a few days later when my Pocket started to look like my Instapaper. Uselessly filled with a ambitions I couldn’t live up to. So I ditched it and began using Safari’s built-in Reading List instead. And what a relief?
I was beginning to see a pattern and needed a drastic change. So I made skip.life:
Introducing skip.life
Skip.life is a browser extension, an app and a way of life. Just like you’d expect from Instapaper, Pocket or the other guilt trippers. Come across an article you’d love to read just not right now? Click the “Save” Button™ and you will be treated to a very satisfying animation of a robot arm carefully archiving the article for later enjoyment, then the tab will close.
Yet, nothing else will happen.
Skip.life will skip it for you.
You’ll feel satisfied that you didn’t miss out on the article. You definitely saved it for later. And 6 minutes later you will have forgotten both the article and every intention of reading it — and best of all, you’ll feel zero anxiety when you log into skip.life and see that you have 0 unread articles.
