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Read Later Logo
Dedicated to my fiancee Yang Yang
A temporary bookmark focuses on reading later, rather than closing and removing.

Installation

Click the image below to install:

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Please rate it on chrome web store or star it on github if you like it. Your encouragement will help me make it better, thanks!

Manual Installation
  1. Download chrome-read-later.zip.
  2. Unzip it and move it to the safe path(you won't delete it accidentally).
  3. Go to chrome://extensions/
  4. Open Developer mode.
  5. Drag the folder to chrome or Click Load unpacked and select the folder.

Features

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Reading List

  • Reading Progress(Orange %): It gets and sets the scroll position of current page.
  • Video Progress(Blue %): It gets and sets the current time and the playback rate of the frist video.
  • Sync in Cloud: Sync across Chrome browsers with one google account.
  • Local History: Save the reading list history locally.

Status Bar

  • Row Number : Total Count
  • History Icon: Click to on/off history mode.
  • Options Icon: Click to open options page.
  • Question Icon: Click to open the documentation & feedback page.

Usages

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Windows and Mac Keyboard Differences

Mac Key Windows Key
Control Ctrl
Option Alt
Command Windows
Delete Backspace

Website

  • Right Click a link and select Save to Read Later in context menus to save the target link info.
  • Right Click current page and select Save to Read Later in context menus to save page info and close current tab.
  • Click the read later icon to open the Reading List(Popup Window).
  • Alt + Shift + S: Save to reading list.
  • Alt + Shift + Z: Zoom In/Out reading list.

If you pressed the shortcuts and it didn't work, please enter chrome://extensions/shortcuts in your address bar. Find Read Later and set the shortcuts(resolve the keyboard shortcuts conflicts) chrome://extensions/shortcuts

Popup

Actions Mouse Keyboard VIM
Open reading list Click extension icon Alt + Shift + z \
Close reading list Click extension icon Alt + Shift + z Esc
Open in Current tab Click Enter o
Open in a New tab and Stay in Current tab Command + Click Command + Enter O
Open in a New tab Alt + Click Alt + Enter alt + o
Delete Hover favicon and Click Delete dd
Move to Next Move Down j
Move to Previous Move Up k
Move to Top Scroll to Top Command + gg
Move to Bottom Scroll to End Command + G
Restore a deletion \ Command + z u
Copy link address Right Click and select copy link address \ yy
On/Off history mode Click History icon \ H
Open setting page Click Setting icon \ ,
Open documentation & feedback site Click Question icon \ ?
Show full title and link Hover text \ \

Note

  • Get/Set reading progress works on most pages, it may change base on current window size.
  • Only get/set the first HTML video's information.
  • Remove the extension will delete the reading list in the cloud, it cannot be restored.
  • The maximum reading list in cloud is up to 250 items, due to google's limits.
  • It may be slow if the reading list in history is near to 10,000 items.

Contribution

Suggestion & PR are welcome. Please open an issue to discussion first.

  • UI
  • UX
  • Refactoring / Code Quality
  • New Features
  • Documentation

TODO

  • Get/Set PDF page number(with pdf.js extension).
  • Integrate with vimium(C), use s and S.
  • Cache the reading list to instantly open.
  • Improve the vim code logic(more dynamic).

Credits

  • Logo is designed by Yasujizr.
  • Delete icon is made by Freepik
  • Icons in status bar are Octicons.
  • I use RubyMine to make this extension, it improves my productivity a lot!
  • Special thanks to my girl friend YangYang, she gave me a lot of helpful suggestions, feedback and encouragement.

LICENSE

AGPL-3.0