Short - The reading list for busy people

Something that hasn't been mentioned yet: Short seems perfect with those who have ADHD or have learning disabilities that impact their ability to read for longer periods of time. I struggle with reading longform pieces (which sucks, because I love reading, but I lose focus often) but an app like Short would definitely encourage me to work through my Pocket stash. Downloaded! :)

Short is a reading app that filters only Short articles for you. So when you have time, don't waste it and read on Short to keep up with your ever growing reading list. Short imports articles from Read-It-Later Apps like Pocket, Instapaper and more, you can choose articles filtered by minutes to match the time you want to spend reading. This app is so well designed, and great for reading. Have been trying the Beta for some time now and I can say it definitely helps me to read better dan more! Read more about the introduction of Short right here. Great app by @alexmuench and @enricenrich

Really nicely execute - only thing I'm missing is the Feedly channel, which is marketed on the website but seemingly missing from the app. Am I missing something?

Check out @joshmuccio's #DailyHunt podcast where the maker of Short, @Alexmuench talks about creating this app :) http://dailyhunt.co/short/ - very cool this is a graduation project, congrats Alex!

Little easter egg: The Safari Share Extension is also already built in which enables you to save any article you find online to any channel you have connected:

Very helpful! Nice work. Someone should take this to another level and allow me to submit articles that provide a tl;dr summary for me. Then I'd really get through this monster list of mine.

So my experience had a rocky start. I enjoyed the onboarding. -- Connecting Channels -- First, I tried to connect the read later service I use most, Pinboard, but it's not yet supported (totally understandable), so I connected Pocket*. I saved a few new articles into Pocket to try Short's reading experience, but then I couldn't find them in Short. (My Pocket is full of hundreds of old articles, most I'll probably never read. Many are videos or little things like table of contents for a book I want to check out where the preview is actually a PDF or something one level removed from the webpage. These seem to trick Short as "1 minute" reads, so they float to the top, and everything else gets buried under this list of many short things that aren't really readable. If I had a one-click "purge older than 6 months" button for Pocket, I'd use it right now. Until then, it would be great if there were a convenient filter or way to sort with new items first so that I could get around this.) Second, I tried to connect Readability, but the auth failed every time. I changed my password on www.readability.com and re-logged in there to confirm it was correct, but the auth in Short still seems to fail. I consider this a minor quirk to be worked out, but it still felt quite strange. Third, I tried my Instapaper account, which I hadn't used in years, but I knew it had articles. That got denied because only Instapaper Premium accounts have API access. Regular IP users probably know this, but I didn't expect it. I hadn't seen ReadingPack before, but I signed up just so I had some way to get articles into Short. This one was successful. It would be wonderful if perhaps Short came preloaded with some sample articles so I wouldn't have made it so far without ever seeing the best part of the app. -- Reading Experience -- I read a couple shorter articles from ReadingPack. The reading experience is wonderful. I've been split across read-it-later apps because I haven't found one that nails everything: I love everything about Pocket except the reading view on desktop, where I think Readability is much cleaner. I love Feedly and use it to manage feeds, but it's reading view is not the greatest. Short really nails the reading view with a nice simple light/dark mode, proper font faces, sizes, and line heights. That progress bar across the top is awesome to have as a hint and overall the experience is just beautiful. -- Misc. -- I went back into list view from midway through an article to see if my progress was saved (nope). I also tried going into Airplane Mode to see if the top articles were pre-downloaded, for example, when reading on the subway but they were not. Those two would be very nice-to-haves. -- Overall -- If the process for getting articles into Short becomes easier, this could become my preferred reading experience on iOS. The fact that it's agnostic to read-it-later services and has so much care putting into focusing on the reading experience is incredibly interesting to me.

Great reading app. Well done!

Thanks for sharing Bram! I'm Enric, one of the two guys behind Short! :) If you have any question don't hesitate to leave a comment, and Alex and me will reply as soon as possible! :)

Hi everyone, Alex here from Short. First of all thanks, Bram for posting our app on Producthunt and the intro! Today we are launching our universal app for iPhone and iPad. I came to the idea because I'm a huge Pocket user, but I save so many articles everyday, that I couldn't keep up with it. Many articles just stayed there and were never read. I was demotivated because of the growing amount of articles. Then I thought, why not create an app that only filters the shortest articles from my list and motivates me to read again. The awesome @enricenrich helped me to develop the app. He's the best! If you have any questions, feel free to ask us.

I'm among the group of people who adds tons of links to Pocket, but have to manually filter them out by length when I'm free to read them. Looks like Short will solve that problem. Any love for Android users?

Congrats on the launch @alexmuench and @enricenrich! Short is a fabulous app, looks great and works really well.

This looks amazing and just what I have needed. I find myself manually going through my Pocket articles based on length to try to get through them. I see some real value here.

The feedly channel feature will be a great add-on to short. Looks like a great way to prioritize reading on my commutes. Good looks guys!

Guys well done! You just uncovered all this great reading soil I had buried so deep in my Pocket. Like discovering Pocket all over again! Tags are so one dimensional. Would be awesome to add "Time Tags" and create pages by time around your tags. So searchable by tags and time. Thanks for making a great app. All the best.

Love the app, you're unlocking the bottom of my Pocket queue that I feared I'd never get to. I also love the way you've integrated SupportKit into your app when you hit "Send Feedback". Very well done!

Love this. Been thinking I keep on bookmarking stuff, but never get to read them. Would love to see support for more bookmarking apps tho (i.e Raindrop)

Please, if you have any request for any other channel, let us know it! :)

Which is the best out of the 4 channel options? Pocket, Instapaper, Readability, ReadingPack.

@alexmuench @enricenrich Awesome Product!! Love the features - Reading Progress and Night Mode. I'm looking forward to the Android app!