_{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

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

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.

Policy Privacy

[policy-privacy.md]

LICENSE

AGPL-3.0