willbchang/chrome-read-later: A temporary bookmark focuses on reading later, rat...

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:

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

Download chrome-read-later.zip.
Unzip it and move it to the safe path(you won't delete it accidentally).
Go to chrome://extensions/
Open Developer mode.
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

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)

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

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