Adding value to one of my favorite app : Pocket

Pocket has been one of my favorites app for long time. Over the last 2 years it has helped me save over 2300 articles , 😯 thats a great number right . Yes indeed , its a great number 👍 .
But if i look back, have i achieved all things i wanted through this app, i just gave a thought over this and this is what i discovered.
Why am i using pocket app ?
- To save my favorite articles to read or refer later.
- Read articles offline
- To index or arrange my favorite articles.
- To discover best articles in my interested tags.
- To prompt me to read more and expand knowledge in specific areas.
Really , so many reasons behind using my favorite app.
Yes so many reasons behind me using this app :)
But i don’t think all
of this is happening. Let me tick the ones i am achieving
- To save my favorite articles to read / refer later ✔️
- Read articles offline ✔️
- To index or arrange my favorite articles ✔️
- To discover best articles in my interested tags — Not always
- To prompt me to read more and expand knowledge in specific areas — Not always
When i analyzed the above i realized there are few things which is not working out for me:
- There are lot of articles i have saved but many of them are unread.
- There are lot of articles i have indexed and favorited but referred fewer times.
- My reading habits have not drastically improved.
- Many times i got lost between different topics and loose my core focus of reading for the day.
Today i wanted to do this small exercise to contribute my bit to solve these problems and think about some amazing ideas to add value to this app. Hope this helps :)
Lets go through each of this problems and think through some solutions :
There are lot of articles i have saved but many of them are unread.
- Showing the no of unread articles and highlighting them can be one of the ways to make people come back to read more.

- Having push notifications send on the no of articles unread and how popular are the posts you saved, is a creative way to prompt users to read more.
There are lot of articles i have indexed and favorited but referred fewer times.
When i am searching a specific keyword in google, give me some reference to the related articles which i have saved earlier, this might help me.
Having some option in my chrome extension to search in my pocket app would be prompting
My reading habits have not drastically improved.
Give me some statistics about my reading habit , which pushes me to read more. I loved this article which you have shared earlier. Data like this on my app screen and some setting to set reminders would be of great help.
Sharing the article and screenshots here.




I think we should start giving the power of data to the users , to improve their lives.
I think some gamification around this, to prompt users to read more would be of great help. Lets make the world a bit better by improving their reading habits:)
Many times i got lost between different topics and loose my core focus of reading for the day.
I think pocket team is working very hard on this algorithm , as i can see my feed becoming better and better everyday.
Just using the above statistics can give me a wonderful feed.
Some wild thoughts :)


Once again thanks pocket team for building such an amazing app 🚀 .
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