

- #INSTAPAPER CHROME EXTENSION HOW TO#
- #INSTAPAPER CHROME EXTENSION INSTALL#
- #INSTAPAPER CHROME EXTENSION SOFTWARE#
Why might you use the web highlighter instead of the Reader apps? A couple reasons:įirst, although we generally prefer our clean, distraction-free reading experience, there are some exceptions where the original site is more pleasing. And those highlights will bidirectionally sync with the Reader web and mobile apps. This means you can optionally highlight the native web page, just like with Hypothes.is or Liner. In addition to saving documents to Reader, just like you would with Instapaper or Pocket, this new browser extension has one massive bonus feature. Whenever you're on an article you want to read, tap the yellow extension icon to save it to Reader.
#INSTAPAPER CHROME EXTENSION INSTALL#
No matter what, one of the first things you should do is install either the Chrome or Firefox browser extension for Reader and pin it to the address bar.
#INSTAPAPER CHROME EXTENSION HOW TO#
Each view will contain a bespoke set of instructions on how to work with that particular content type, such as the example below explaining how to get web articles into Reader. The best way to learn how to get these different documents into Reader is just to explore the built-in category views alongside the left sidebar. You can save documents of all kinds to Reader including web articles, RSS feeds, email newsletters, PDFs, EPUBs, Twitter threads, Twitter Lists, and YouTube videos, bringing all your reading into one place. You can typically discover them by hovering the action with your mouse pointer, pulling open the Command Palette ( Cmd/Ctrl + K), or tapping ? for the quick reference. There are lots more keyboard shortcuts than these. When the side panels are hidden, those annotations will appear as beautiful marginalia. Now try tapping n to both highlight and start a note on the focused paragraph. Those left and right sidebars in this reading view (the table of contents and context panel, respectively) are cool at the beginning of the document, but interfere once you truly begin a focused reading session. This undo has memory so you can undo several steps in reverse. You can always hit z to undo any action in Reader enabling you to move quickly without fear of making mistakes. That's right: you can finally highlight images! And those highlighted images, like all highlights in Reader, will be synced with and resurfaced in Readwise and/or your note-taking app of choice.

Now try focusing the animated gif of Antonio Banderas below and tapping h to highlight the focused paragraph. Try using the ↑ and ↓ arrow keys to move the purple focus indicator. You can even read, highlight, and annotate without touching the mouse! This means you can do almost everything with your keyboard.
#INSTAPAPER CHROME EXTENSION SOFTWARE#
The first thing you should know is that Reader is productivity software built with power users in mind. Changing the "Deny" to "Allow" in "Extension permissions" doesn't stick: if I re-load the page and look again, everything sits at "Deny" again.Welcome to the public beta of Reader! Walkthrough guides can be really boring so we've laced ours with spicy memes to keep those dopamine receptors firing while we subliminally demonstrate the basics of our software. I also found it peculiar how all of my extensions were blocked on, despite the fact that I have almost all of them set to "allow on every website":


I've also added overrides to ensure doesn't use content blockers, or is in compatibility mode, but none of the variations have worked. (I added and to the list above at separate times, waited a little bit, then went back into it to find it missing) I've tried to allow third party cookies for instapaper by adding a couple variations as "off" to the third party cookies page, but I'm not convinced the settings are sticking, as falls off the override list after some time: So if I save some article on ft.com by clicking the instapaper extension, this page comes up: With the release of Orion 0.99.117-beta (WebKit 614.1.20), the instapaper extension works, but in fallback mode (as-if you were using a bookmarklet).
