If it is always risky to rely on one piece of software – companies shut them down often enough – then relying on two is either doubly risky or twice as smart. But sometimes two totally separate applications from unrelated companies just happen to go together and produce something new. Ity that hydrogen and oxygen get together; two gasses team up to become a liquid.
This is what you can do with Evernote and Pocket: the former being the note taking application and the latter a Read It Later one.
Evernote is excellent for collecting notes but sometimes you don't want to keep them. If you just want to have a read and then decide whether you need to keep something around…
The solution is to dump all of the clippings from the web, Twitter, and your RSS reader to Pocket. Pocket makes it easy to check off the things you've read. Then, if you want to save the article for future reference, send it to Evernote. This way, Evernote becomes more of a long-term yet uncluttered storage tool.P
Evernote comes with a we clipper that is handy for grabbing pages yet somehow I only use it extremely rarely. It's just handier to save to Pocket. It's become automatic for me to do that where I have to positively think to use Evernote. Funny how some things stick with you and others don't.