PSD Video Tip #16: Using InstaPaper+Kindle and Fall In Love With Waiting

Don’t you just hate waiting? Especially when you are running errands, you’ll encounter situations when you just have to wait until it’s your turn to take care of your business.

But what if you figured a nice way to take advantage of your waiting times?

Well, with InstaPaper and Amazon Kindle you can do this very easily.

Check out the video and see what I mean. And don’t forget to share your own favorite tips for taking advantage of your waiting times!

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• Video length: 05:45
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  Hello, this is Timo from ProductiveSuperdad.com, and today I wanted to
  share with you a very quick and easy way of taking advantage of your
  waiting times. Now, unfortunately at times you will encounter waiting,
  whether it is when you are going to post office or when you are going to a
  bank, and instead of just sitting and waiting for your turn, you can very
  easily maximize that waiting time. In order to do that, we are going to use
  a service called Instapaper.Now, obviously, you need to register an account first before you can use
  Instapaper. But it’s a very simple and easy process, and after you have
  registered an account, you will sign in like this.

  What this service does is that it lets you save web pages for later
  reading. So, I don’t know about you, but every now and then my web browser
  is full of open tabs. And especially when I’m starting my web browser for
  the first time, it takes ages to load those open tabs. In most of the cases
  those open tabs contains some very cool web pages or blog posts that I have
  found around the Web, and well, I just haven’t had time to read and go
  through those posts so I’ll leave the tabs open on my browser. But a much
  nicer way to deal with this issue is that instead of having dozens of open
  browser tabs, after you have registered an account with Instapaper, you can
  save those pages for later reading.

  This is the front page of my personal Instapaper account. I have saved a
  couple of blog posts already, something that I want to go through at some
  point. You can very easily add new posts by entering the URL information
  and the title of the post and maybe writing a brief summary about the post
  itself.

  Now, that’s obviously one way to do it. But a much easier and nicer way to
  do it is to use a browser extension, for instance in my case I am using
  Google Chrome. As you can see here that I have a Read Later button. So all
  I have to do is that when I sign in to Instapaper, I can just, you know,
  drag and drop this Read Later button to my Chrome navigation bar, and then
  it’s very easily accessible.

  For instance, if I find an article which I would like to read later, so all
  I have to do is to . . . well first of all I have to find the blog post or
  the article that I want to read, and then I’ll just click Read Later button
  like this, and boom, it’s saved to my Instapaper account.

  Now how is this going to help you with your waiting times if you are
  waiting your turn in a bank or in a post office? Well, the coolest thing
  with Instapaper is that you can actually download these pages that you have
  saved for later reading. You can actually save and export those pages for
  your mobile device.

  So, for instance, I have an Amazon Kindle device myself. So what I can do
  is that I can click Kindle link here on the right side of the page, and it
  is actually exporting all those pages that I have saved for later reading.
  When this export process is finished, I have the Amazon Kindle compatible
  file which I can then copy to my Amazon Kindle device. As you can see, this
  particular file was just generated, and this is the file which Amazon
  Kindle can then read. All I have to do is just to copy it to my Kindle, and
  whenever, for example, if I am going to a bank, I make sure that I have my
  Amazon Kindle with me. If I realize that I’ll have to wait for my turn, I
  just take my Amazon Kindle and start reading those blog posts that I have
  saved for later reading.

  So this is the tip that I wanted to tell you this time. I just love
  Instapaper. It’s a really great service, and I want you also to check it
  out as well. I hope that you found this video valuable and please share it
  on Twitter and on YouTube, and I will talk to you soon. Bye.