The best way to get newsletters into Instapaper

The intake problem

Instapaper is one of the best read-later apps available. The problem is getting the right articles there. Most people either save everything — and end up with a list too long to trust — or save nothing and lose the articles that were actually worth reading.

Newsletters are the main culprit. A single weekly newsletter can surface ten links. Save them all to Instapaper and the good stuff gets buried. There's no easy way to triage from inside the email itself — you're either all-in or you miss things.

Triage before you save

Siftdeck sits between your newsletters and Instapaper. It fetches articles from your newsletter archive URLs and queues them up for a quick decision: save to Instapaper, mark as read, or skip. Each decision takes a second. The queue drains, and only the articles you've actively chosen reach your reading list.

The difference is meaningful. When everything in Instapaper has been deliberately saved, you trust the list. You open it knowing each article is there because you decided it was worth your time.

Tags that travel with the article

When you save an article, you assign tags. Those tags travel with the article into Instapaper — so articles land in the right folder without any sorting after the fact.

Siftdeck suggests tags automatically based on the article URL. You confirm or change them in a second. It takes less time than tagging manually inside Instapaper.

Connect in seconds

Enter your Instapaper username and password in Siftdeck settings. Your credentials are used once to obtain a persistent access token — they are never stored. From that point on, saved articles go straight to your Instapaper list automatically.

Paste a newsletter archive URL once. Siftdeck detects the issue pattern and fetches new editions automatically as they're published. You don't manage a feed or a list of URLs — you add a source once and it stays current.

If the same article appears in two newsletters you follow, you see it once. Global deduplication means your triage queue stays clean even if your sources overlap.