79 // Read-later apps with Tristan Homsi and Dan Doyon

How can software improve the practice of reading? Tristan and Dan are the founders of Readwise. They join Adam to talk about the history of read-later apps like Pocket and Instapaper; the difference between reading for betterment and reading for entertainment; and the cat-and-mouse game of web parsing. Plus: how the personal knowledge management explosion in 2020 affected digital reading.

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Show notes

• Tristan Homsi @homsIT
• Dan Doyon @deadly_onion
• falconry
• My Side of the Mountain
• Readwise
• Anki
• Dan and Tristan meeting on Hacker News
• Reader
• Pocket, Marco Arment, Instapaper
• Mozilla acquires Pocket
• Why We’re Bootstrapping Readwise
• Alan Kay on computer science as pop culture
• Readability.js
• web standards acid test
• Reader browser extension
• RSS
• Explorable Explanations
• offline first
• JSON Patch
• Second Brain
• commonplace book, marginalia
• etymology of “document”