“Pocket” Customized Content Archiving Service
I was surfing merrily along this afternoon, reading through articles and sharing and saving for later and so forth. One of the articles I perused and shared - a feature piece w/ Barry Beck over at DuJour (dujour.com/beauty/bluemercury-founder-barry-beck-interview/) about a walking tour through my original hometown of Georgetown, D.C. - had the usual row of social media links at the bottom: Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In, Google+, Tumblr. One icon caught my notice for not being immediately recognizable. It’s for a service called Pocket.
I’ve never heard of Pocket - even though it’s kind of part of my job to know of such things. (So, good thing I’m catching up.) But it seems to serve the exact function I was doing myself - researching recent article content and saving the best material for nearby future reference - but it seems to archive and re-present the content in simplified, customizable ways. They explain more at getpocket.com/about.
I see this as potentially quite useful for one specific purpose: Putting interesting aside for future digestion and/or for others’ consumption. The possible downside is from the fact that oftentimes archived items, thus being removed from sight, are rendered out of mind too, the original importance forgotten. Maybe using Pocket makes it harder to forget.