About a year and a half ago Google unveiled those social and feed management features for Google Reader (incl. this “Send to” button which helps you tweet, blog, etc an article faster). Also, I like Instapaper very much. So obviously I have enabled the Send to Instapaper option in Google Reader since the first day I had this option. The problem that occurred to me was that the implementation of this option was kind of a 2-step action that kept bothering me some time later. So I decided to star the items I wanted to read later.

ifttt works like this: ifthisthenthat.

Having thought about it for a while I came up with this task:

if New starred item in your Google Reader then Read later with Instapaper

So now every time I star an item in Google Reader, I know this will automatically send the item to Instapaper. Note that ifttt is currently in beta and tasks poll for new trigger data every 15 minutes.