Yes, it’s finally happening and the timing couldn’t have been more symbolic. As Pocket closes its doors, Notion opens a new one: offline mode is here, and it’s the perfect moment to centralise your reading and knowledge workflows. Farewell Pocket, hello Notion offline mode!
At Notioners, we’re old enough to remember when Pocket felt like magic. For those of us who constantly stumbled upon fascinating articles right when we didn’t have time to read them, Pocket was a revelation. Boom — “save for later,” and poof! Like a digital squirrel stashing away nuts (or NYT op-eds), we could finally circle back when life gave us a moment.
But alas, dear Pocket is packing up and saying goodbye on July 8, 2025. 🪦 The OG read-later app, alongside its trusty cousin Instapaper, is officially closing shop. If this makes you nostalgic, you’re not alone — we’ve got some feelings too. Pocket changed the game for readers, thinkers, and chronic-tab-hoarders everywhere.
But let’s talk about the now.
Thanks to the “Save to Notion” and Notion Web Clipper extensions, we’ve been living the read-later dream inside Notion for years. As Notion Certified Consultants, we’ve been nudging our clients (and ourselves) to use Notion as the central brain for everything — yes, including that “10 Habits of Highly Effective Something-or-Other” article you’ll eventually read.
But here’s the kicker: until now, that only worked well online.
Enter: Notion Offline Mode. 🎉
Yes, it’s real. Yes, it works (kinda). And yes, it’s a game-changer for everyone who’s ever shouted at a plane’s Wi-Fi or wandered into a tunnel mid-thought.
With Notion Offline Mode, your saved articles can now be marked “Available Offline” — meaning you can catch up on reading without signal, Wi-Fi, or frantic hotspot hunting. That beautifully curated “Read Later” database you’ve been building? It finally follows you anywhere.
We were lucky enough (and smug enough) to be part of the Alpha roll-out of the new Notion Offline Mode, invited as Notion Certified Consultants — perks of the job, baby. What can we say? We’re living the synced-and-cached dream.
Sure, it’s not perfect yet. You can’t create new pages offline, and don’t go closing tabs like a maniac while mid-subway ride. But for the most part? It works, and it works well — especially in the Notion Desktop App, which is our go-to recommendation for offline warriors.
So, is Pocket closing by chance just as Notion Offline Mode rolls out? We’re not saying it’s a conspiracy, but let’s just say… timing is everything.
From now on, if you’re using Notion to save articles (and you should be), and you toggle those suckers to “Available Offline,” you’ve got everything Pocket did — and way more — all in one Notion-powered, productivity-optimized system.
TL;DR: Pocket’s bowing out. Notion’s stepping up. And if you’re a Notion Certified Consultant (hi 👋), this is your moment.
Bye, Pocket. Hello, Notion Offline Mode. We’ve got this.
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