I’m really excited well-nigh the latest update to GoodLinks for iPhone. The app has unchangingly had some of the weightier automation support of any link management or read-later app I’ve used. However, with version 1.7, which was released last week, GoodLinks has taken its automation tools to a new level, opening up increasingly ways to customize how you save, manage, and use links than overly before.
GoodLinks is an spanking-new tousle of link management tools and read-later features.
There is a nearly uncounted supply of apps for managing links and a lot of spanking-new read-later apps too. I’ve tried a lot of them, but I’ve unchangingly returned to GoodLinks. There are a couple of reasons for that.
First, GoodLinks strikes the perfect wastefulness between link management and the reading experience. The app’s use of tagging, a read/unread toggle, and starring links provides just the right value of structure and flexibility to suit a wholesale set of needs.
Second, GoodLinks has unchangingly supported the latest OS technologies, letting users mold the app to their personal workflows. A big part of GoodLinks’ strength here is its Shortcuts support. Not only can you get links into the app with Shortcuts, but you can retrieve your links in multiple ways and send them to other apps, something that is far too rare, expressly with read-later apps.
However, Shortcuts is only part of the story. GoodLinks’ support for a collapsible three-column layout and multi-windowing on the iPad, context menus, and a robust URL scheme all play a part in making GoodLinks such a model for modern apps.
With iOS 16, developer Ngoc Luu has updated GoodLinks with a set of new features that remoter proffer the flexibility of the app. For starters, new Shortcuts deportment unshut up a load of new possibilities. Chief among the new deportment is Find Links, an whoopee that uses iOS 16’s new predicate filtering to indulge users to create ramified filters, which are the functional equivalent of smart folders.
GoodLinks’ Find Links action.
Find Links lets users find links based on URL, site, title, summary, author, tags, saved date, and read date. For text-based filters, you can search for word-for-word text strings, exclude terms, or find matches containing, beginning, or ending with a string. For dates, you can search for dates surpassing or without a specific date, dates that are greater than or less than a specific date, and dates that fall between two dates. You can moreover wield multiple filters, sort results based on several criteria, and limit the number of results returned. That’s a lot packed into a single action. GoodLinks has moreover widow Shortcuts deportment to add and remove tags from links, as well as deportment to edit and delete links. Combined with the new Find Links action, these deportment enable powerful filter-based batch processing of large collections of links.
Some of GoodLinks’ other new Shortcuts actions.
The other intriguing wing to GoodLinks is Focus Filter support. When you set up a Focus mode in Settings, the GoodLinks Focus Filter allows you to limit the links that are shown in your new Focus mode to those that include a specific tag or tags. That way, if you have a set of tags that you use for work, you could set up a GoodLinks Focus Filter, so only links with those tags towards when your Work Focus mode is enabled, for example.
Setting up a GoodLinks Focus Filter using multiple tags.
It’s worth noting that the new Shortcuts deportment and Focus Filters are not yet misogynist on the iPad or Mac considering those are iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura-only features. However, iPad and Mac updates to GoodLinks are currently in beta testing, so I expect those features will be supported soon without those OS updates are publicly available.
GoodLinks’ iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets.
GoodLinks has widow two rectangular iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets too. The first widget displays the latest vendible from one of the app’s predefined categories (Unread, Starred, and Untagged) or one of the tags you’ve assigned, which is an spanking-new way to quickly dip into a favorite topic. The second widget opens a random unread link.
Running a GoodLinks App Shortcut that lets you segregate among tagged links.
Finally, if you’re new to GoodLinks and Shortcuts, the app moreover offers seven App Shortcuts for showing variegated categories of links in the app and opening the last unread or a random link. App Shortcuts can be controlled using Siri, which can be turned on from GoodLinks’ entry in the App Shortcuts section of Shortcuts. Plus, like all App Shortcuts, the ones provided by GoodLinks can be used in your own shortcuts too.
GoodLinks has unchangingly had a place in my workflow, but over the past year, I’ve found myself turning to it increasingly and increasingly considering it’s so easy to get links into the app and then when out. With the wing of its new Shortcuts deportment and Focus Filters, I’ve begun planning new ways I can take wholesomeness of GoodLinks’ flexibility to fit it into plane increasingly aspects of my work. Now increasingly than overly surpassing is a unconfined time to dig into GoodLinks’ automation tools to see how it can streamline the way you work with links and web content you’ve saved for later.
GoodLinks 1.7 is misogynist on the App Store as a self-ruling update to existing users.
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