I find myself wanting to read more, and I’ve found that reading paper is more pleasurable. I was intrigued by the Offprint service that launched recently. The idea is a magazine made of links that you send in, printed monthly, and mailed to you.
I received my first edition a few days ago. It is as nice as I imagined, and I could see this becoming a real thing. A few snags though. One, it’s slower to receive than I imagined. I didn’t receive my August issue until halfway through September. By the time I received the magazine I had forgotten about several of the articles. Two, I don’t always have links to send. Sometimes I just have 2 or 3, sometimes 10. Offprint has a static number of 90 something pages, with extra pages being “notes”. I’d rather write in the margins, and having 20 pages of notes feels a bit useless.
While I really liked Offprint, I just didn’t like the experience enough to continue. My wife, always being the practical person, said I should just print it out at the office. So I made an app, of course. I’m calling it [Galley](While I really liked Offprint, I just didn’t like the experience enough to continue. ). Paste in links, collect them into “editions” and print them out on A4 or letter sized paper.
It’s simple for now, and Mac only. But I’m open to bug reports and feature requests, if any. https://galley.robertritz.com/
