After a read-later app closes: what to do with your saved list

When a read-later service closes, it usually keeps an export open for a while: a file with the links you saved. If you downloaded yours, keep that file: it's the list of everything you meant to read.

Many people find the same thing when they look at that file: most of the articles were never opened. Saving is easy. Finding an hour to sit and read is the hard part.

• Saving in one tap. A share button in Safari and in other apps, so saving takes no effort.
• Where your list lives. On your device, in an account, or both. And whether you can get it back out.
• What happens offline. Can you open what you saved on a plane or in the subway?
• Whether you'll get to it. A list is only useful if there's a moment in your day to go through it.

There are good read-it-later apps that cover the first three. Leola is built for the fourth: it reads your list to you, so the commute, the walk or the dishes become the moment you finally get through it.

1. 1

   Open your export and pick a few

   Look through the list of links and pick the five or ten articles you still want. Skip the rest without guilt.

2. 2

   Open each one in Safari

   Tap a link so the article opens in Safari on your iPhone.

3. 3

   Share it to Leola

   Tap Share, then Leola. The article's text is saved in your library, ready to play.

4. 4

   Line them up

   Add them to the queue or a playlist, like songs. Each one remembers the sentence where you stopped.

From then on, do the same with anything new you find: share it to Leola instead of saving it for a quiet hour that never comes.

• Everything in one library. Articles shared from Safari, pasted text, notes and PDFs (PDFs with Leola Plus).
• Like a music app. A queue, playlists, a mini player, lock screen controls and a sleep timer.
• On your iPhone. No cloud, no account, no credits. Your text never leaves your phone.
• Follow along. The sentence being read is highlighted, so you can look down and find your place.