Simple Instapaper Integration

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General idea taken from aamaras’ guide. I’m using it to track articles I’ve read and put into archive on Instapaper.

Steps:

  1. Go to your Instapaper archive.
  2. Right click and click view page source.
  3. Find the link along the lines of < link rel=“alternate” type=“application/rss+xml” title=“RSS” href=“/archive/rss/1234567/longrandomstringofnumbersandletters” />. I did ctrl-f and searched for RSS.
  4. Copy the link from the href and put insapaper.com in front of it, eg. http://www.instapaper.com/archive/rss/1234567/longrandomstringofnumbersandletters
  5. Create a new do more goal that uses the RSSminder integration.
  6. Paste in your link from above and finish making the goal.
  7. Voila

You now have a beeminder goal that tracks new articles that you read and put into archive on Instapaper! It even automatically puts the article title into the datapoint for you!

Let me know if you need any clarification or if it doesn’t work for you!

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