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"toread" - an email-based bookmark service

toread.cc — A Simple bookmark service. It's not much like del.icio.us, digg, but gives an extremely cool way to handle my bookmarking stuffs. As web pages are sent by email "as it is", I can even full-text-search them as well as save/manage/review them with my Outlook.

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  • akky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Cool! e-mail is still the tool most people use so bookmarking into mailbox might make sense.
    • gklitt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yup, this is VERY useful for those mornings where I don't have time to look carefully at every site i visit but I still want to read it later.
  • genetic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5i really dont see how this is useful for bookmarking
    • Aure, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Having sites saved "as is" for later viewing is very useful. Websites change a lot throughout the day and having a saved copy saves people from having to look through different pages for all the updates.
  • KIC2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2So Useful.
  • nvidiafx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3useful indeed
  • racerfan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Checking it out - not sure if I'll end up using, but worth a spin.
  • tomo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Great! This is what I wanted.
    I used to email the bookmark address to my gmail email address with "Bookmark" subject. Thanks.
  • vego007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is great...I setup a filter in my gmail to automatically label what I send and not show up in my inbox. Now I can just send every article I like to myself and have it at my finger tips forever
  • xxdesmus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's quite useful/nice, but it breaks a lot of sites when you "toread" them to yourself.
  • Polaris75, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Dude ...

    You use Outlook??
  • mrgreen4242, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2This is cool... I often take a 5 minute break at work to check digg, fark, slashdot, etc. but often don't have time to read the whole article. By the time I get home I've either forgotten or the link is dead. This was I can read them when I get home, and not have to deal with dead servers, etc.

    Plus I can read them while at work and have it look like I'm using my email client, and not browsing the web. :p
  • Digichrome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How is this better than just having a "too read" bookmark folder?
  • Sammy20, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is so inutile.

    Just think for second...how were you surfing the 'to check out later sites' before toread.cc came out?
  • spih27, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I really just prefer keeping my e-mail devoid of excess stuff. I like live bookmarks much better, hence why I have 0 diggs. I'd rather go through a "menu" in my browser rather than logging into my e-mail, then clicking links.
  • GrinningFool, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4Come on boys and girls, sing along!

    Lovely spam, wonderful spa-a-m,
    Lovely spam, wonderful S Spam,
    Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am,
    Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am,
    SPA-A-A-A-A-A-A-AM,
    SPA-A-A-A-A-A-A-AM,
    LOVELY SPAM, LOVELY SPAM,
    LOVELY SPAM, LOVELY SPAM,
    LOVELY SPA-A-A-A-AM...
    SPA-AM, SPA-AM, SPA-AM, SPA-A-A-AM!
  • wilerson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I Just tag items with "toread" in del.icio.us . Works fine to me. http://del.icio.us/tag/toread
    • Izzie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1toread, toreadlater, tochecklater, and such...
  • 94smart, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0That's funny
  • tomoleary, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey, different strokes for different folks I suppose. Many people use email quite regularly, and the application could be very convenient for them if they come across an article that they want to drop into their inbox for later reading. Believe it or not, there are even people still on dial-up connections in the world. This will allow them to read longer web content offline later.

    I like the song, but this has nothing to do with spam grinningfool. Unless you're sending it to yourself without your permission - perhaps if you were drunk, and not in your right mind, your sober self could protest if your drunk self sent some commercial web content to your sober inbox.??

    Nice to see different applications come along.
  • alistairf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2heck, I waaay back in '95 (as in 1995) I only had a free email account via Juno.com (I was a poor enlisted guy). It was text only. There was a email server that did the same thing, it emailed me webpages. Of course websites were less graphically intensive, and I only wanted to read the text of the articles anyway, so who cared about graphics.
  • rajulkabir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Sort of an aside, but has anyone else noticed that Windows users tend to refer to their software as "MY xxx"?

    Like, "I am trying to read your email but I cannot find it in my Outlook." "I am looking at our web site right now in my Internet Explorer."

    I had thought maybe it was just the people I work with, but now I see it in the digg up there too. What does it mean? Windows users feel more personally attached to their computers? They don't understand the intellectual property licensing model? Something else?
    • Gunnaf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Well for one, sometimes it is needed for diagnosing issues when troubleshooting morons. For instance, someone calls a helpdesk asking why their bookmarks don't show. You assume they realize their bookmarks are stored on the individual computer until you find out 30 minutes later they are at a friends house and wondering why the bookmark they added to IE on their home pc isn't there.

      As far as Outlook goes, on networks you can actually access other peoples outlook if they give you permission. So if a person calls up with some issues, it could be useful to know if the AA (basically a secretary that does a lot more stuff) is trying to let's say add that calendar event to their boss' outlook profile or their own.
    • yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@Gunnaf

      that outlook story reminds me of the following question posted somewhere on the web
      "does anybody know how to turn on my pc?"
    • h3xley, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Probably a side effect from years of My Documents, My Computer, My Briefcase, My Network Places, My Shared Folder, My Pictures, My Music etc type brainwashing. Have I missed any?
  • elsnow77, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1whats that thing you can do with your gmail address, is it example@gmail.com-hat or example@gmail.com+hat or what?? sorry if you don't unerstand this, but there is a way you can add something to your address with a plus or something
    • thrillho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yeah- say your gmail address is user@gmail.com, put user+foldername@gmail.com and it will auto send the email to that folder
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