![]() GoodLinks also supports drag and drop for adding links on the iPad. Of course, you can add a link from scratch from inside GoodLinks itself too, but the vast majority of links I save are with the extension. It’s a terrific touch that accounts for different styles of link saving. However, if you tap the graphic, GoodLinks’ full share sheet form opens, allowing you to add tags and other details. If you do nothing, the link will simply be saved to GoodLinks as-is. That way, when you tap the GoodLinks extension, instead of being presented with a form to fill out, you’ll see a short ‘Saved’ graphic. If the default setup involves more friction than you’d like, you can turn on Quick Save. From here, you can add tags, mark the article as read, and add a star. ![]() When you tap the extension, GoodLinks opens a view with the URL, title, and summary of the webpage pre-populated. Share extensions are expected in all read-it-later apps, but GoodLinks offers a unique Quick Save toggle in its settings that controls how the extension behaves.īy default, Quick Save is off. Quick Save (left) and the default GoodLinks share extension (right).Īdding links is table stakes for read-it-later apps, but worth covering nonetheless because, on iOS and iPadOS, GoodLinks includes an interesting twist on the share sheet that I haven’t seen in other apps. As with any 1.0 app, there’s room for improvement, but my wishes for GoodLinks are just that: wishes borne of enthusiasm for a terrific app that has quickly found its way into my daily workflow. There’s built-in flexibility to GoodLinks that allows it to adapt exceedingly well to a wide variety of use cases. ![]() What grabbed me is a versatility that stems from the fluidity of getting links into the app, managing them, and getting them out again. However, that’s exactly what has happened since I began using GoodLinks. Having settled into a comfortable Reeder workflow, I didn’t expect the way I manage links to be upended anytime soon. New features of the OSes on which GoodLinks runs have breathed new life into the category, and its developer has taken advantage of these features to provide new utility to users. That’s a relatively new development for these sorts of apps, but the difference in this new generation of read-it-later apps runs deeper. Like GoodLinks, those apps use iCloud sync to keep articles you save synced across all the devices they support instead of using a developer-maintained web service. We’ve also covered apps like Abyss and Readit in MacStories Weekly. Since returning to Reeder for the RSS feeds I follow, I’ve been using its read-it-later service, which is terrific.
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