Read It Later Support

The "Read Later" plugin is great idea. I hope that you continue development. I would love a drop down selection of reading material rather than having to flash through the items to find the one I want to read now. Good luck! Thanks.

FANTASTIC! Thank you so much.

Wow, Ive needed something like this for so long!
Thank you.

I'm loving this, I often stumble for hours looking for interesting topics to blog about and my bookmark list tends to get over crowded.

How did you know that this was just what I've wanted for such a long time? Great stuff!

that is kickin

I like the general idea of this extension, but my solution to the same problem is to use delicious and then bookmark things with _TO_BE_READ so I can return to them later. Using the generic Yahoo! created delicious firefox extension, I can then just pull up all records with that tag on the left side and read them.

I don't mean to suggest that my way is better (though for me, it is) but I thought I'd throw that out there as an alternative.

Simply beautiful!

Thank you!!! This is exactly what I was looking for! Now I can sit back and relax without tons of tabs openning in front of me!

Wow, this is exactly what I needed! For the past year or so I've been keeping articles I want to read at some future date saved in my Bloglines RSS feeds -- which clutters up the feeds rather quickly. This is a much better solution!

Two suggestions:

1) A way to browse the entire reading list. I have dozens of saved URLs but only the first 11 or so show up in the drop-down box. One option would be to show them in the sidebar.

2) An option to automatically group saved pages from the same domain under a folder for that site. I have a lot of Lifehacker saved pages, for instance, and it would be neat if I could have tell the extension that when saved pages from the same domain reach X saved articles then move them to a folder for that domain. (And allow random to span the folders).

Thanks for the amazing idea and great work!

PERFECT! Best plugin on firefox yet!

Another thumb up to love Firefox

l3utterfish

THANKS for converting this great idea !

I installed your extension Version 0.5 on FF 2.0.0.9 but it does not work. I choose several pages and links by clicking the context menu “Read this link later” “Read this page later”. But nothing happens pressing the Icon on the top. No drop down appears. The only working is the tool tip “Read something from your reading list”

I installed and uninstalled the extension three times with the same result. Any ideas ?

This is stunningly cool! ... You've increased my bookmarking productivity by an order of magnitude. It's a 'staging area' for bookmarks, I love it!! :)
Cheers, Chris

Hey this is a great idea. Thanks.

One of the best plugins!!!
Thank you.

This is great but wouldn't it make more since that for you to be able to mark as read and digg it rather then submit it? Like most I read digg and open in different tabs, once i have looked at the page and like it i will go back to digg and mark it as dugg

i used the session manager to keep things i wanted to read later but this works much better, THANK YOU!!

Why not just install the del.icio.us bookmark extension. Right-click all links that you want to read later and give them a tag (e.g., 'digglater'). Del.icio.us can even spit out an RSS feed for that list that you're making allowing you to take it with you or publish it elsewhere.

Just create a folder "Read it Later" in the bookmark bar and drag the link into it, you don't need the addon

Thank you so much, I've wanted a plugin like this for months. And been a bit annoyed that Netscape Navigator had it by default but no Firefox plugins like it have been available.

Is there the possibility that this can be re-generated to work on Firefox on an Apple Mac?

I've just discovered this "Read it Later" Firefox extension v.6, and I must say that this is one of the smartest time-saving extensions I know. It works perfectly, very well thought and produced. I guess I'm on for a "Thanks!" :)

a funny plugin. but far off better than Ctrl+D

lol, what does 'a funny plugin' mean? Does it make you laugh?

funny because now i am stucked with two bookmarks, delicious and this one. still too much info overload! LOL!

This is a good idea. But I have a few comments:
1) why handle these separately from bookmarks?
2) how do you manage large reading lists?

To give you some background, I've been using a system like this for years: http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000033.html
I currently have about 700 things to read, and I have thousands which I have read and are archived. It is a single system for bookmarks and things to read.
This unified solution is really bare-bone (the UI is pretty crude), but actually quite powerful: I don't have to think about whether I should bookmark or simple "read it later", I can search my current active bookmarks (using Firefox "search in page") and I can search my history/archive. Finally, there is no synching problem as my bookmarks are on the web.

Found a bug: I marked some pages for later reading. When paging through them, I got a page I wanted to read later but not now (it had a video and I don't have headphones at work). I didn't want to "mark this page as read", so I clicked the "read something from your list" button thinking I could just go on with the next item and come back to this one latter. Apparently this *also* marked it as read, I guess I have two buttons that do the same thing and I've lost my video.

Remarkably usable for a Firefox add-on.

I'm a lover of firefox's extension. "Read it later" is a Very usefull extension.
Bye Bye

Great Idea...solves a lot of my problems. Thanks!

You know the old schoolyard saying, "If you love it, why don't you marry it?". This extension is an amazing example of what happens when you make applications open-ended; allowing people to dream and create features they find useful. This is going to save me a huge amount of time and align my surfing habits with GTD.

Nate, you've just got credit for a coffee date with me. I'll pick up the tab ;)

AWESOME! At first I thought it wasn´t different from any bookmark aplication, but the option to add it to digg, delicious, etc. can save you time to use it as a marketing technique.

para eso es google bloc de notas

Hi I am Bruce's son. I know Nikki, actually I am sitting near her. She is working very hard. This is a cool add-on! You make awesome widgets.

I LOVE this extension. Has reduced the numbers of tabs I keep open to a reasonable minimum.

Sent an email couple of days ago to request beta version but no response. Using FF3B4 and RIL isn't functioning.
Is it still available?
Thanks Nate.

A "marriage made in heaven," an RSS reader ("Brief") and "Read It later." It saves having to open a bunch of tabs and, like glancing at a newspaper, one just has to do a fast look at the RSS feeds, and then go do something important. :-) Excellent Extension and in the "must have" catagory.

Hello,

This is translation in French for your plugin Read it Later
First (1) is exact translation
Second (2) is as short as the sentence

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Options
Options

Read something from your reading list
(1) Lire quelque chose depuis votre liste de lecture
(2) Lire depuis votre liste de lecture

Open all of the reading list into tabs
Ouvrir toute la liste de lecture dans des onglets
Ouvrir toute la liste dans des onglets

Prepare List for Offline Viewing (experime...
Préparer la liste pour visualisation hors ligne (experts)
Préparer la liste pour le hors ligne (experts)

Select Read it Later bookmark folder
Sélectionner le dossier Read It Later

Pull from list randomally
Tirer de la liste au hasard

Surf reading list in order
Naviguer dans l'ordre de la liste de lecture
Naviguer dans l'ordre

Open Items In Same Window
Ouvrir les articles dans une même fenêtre
Ouvrir dans une même fenêtre

Open Items In New Tab
Ouvrir les articles dans un nouvel onglet
Ouvrir dans un nouvel onglet

After marking as read, go to next item
Après marquage comme lu, aller au second article
Après marquage, aller au second article (it's better)

After marking as read, close curent tab
Après marquage comme lu, fermer l'onglet courant
Après marquage, fermer l'onglet courant (it's better)

Take no action after marking as read
Ne rien faire après marquage comme lu
Ne rien faire après marquage (it's better)

About this plugin
À propos de cette extension
À propos de ce plugin

Save for later
Garder pour plus tard
Sauvegarder

CONGRATULATIONS!!! This is well wroth the wait, and you even got it out just as FF3 is out. and WHAT AMAZING IMPROVEMENTS! (have you slept in the last week at all?) This will be one of the most popular addons for FF3 of all. Well done!

Thank you for a great update to a marvelous extension!.
The new features are cool and provide great integration with Firefox 3.

this is a great extensions, thanks

This is the most brilliant plugin. I've been trying to solve several of the problems that Read It Later does by using a bunch of other methods, none of which are as nice or effective as this. Thanks.

Fantastic tool to be able to make use of downtime effectively. Thanks!

Art Gonzalez
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This is a great extension. I'll try this out on my mac, since I am often out of reach of a network connection.

I looked for such an extension for some time and in the end i made a simple one myself!

Like the quicklist in youtube, i put a link into a list with ctrl+click. Later i can visit them in any order, and they removed from the list after visiting. The list is session-safe.

It is very useful for reading articels in the newpapers and watching videos, where opening multiple video tabs would result in multiple videos playing at the same time.

If i knew so many people looking for it, i would publish it :)

It is simply outstanding! You solved that exact problem I'm experienced: having to keep millions of open Firefox tabs. Thank you!

Also highly recommend the "Toolbar Buttons" extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2377

It has an "offline" button you can add to the toolbar next to the RIL one. Too easy.

Concurrency bug: if you press the "Read something from your reading list" button, then switch to another tab (a page not on your reading list), when the to-read page loads, the button on the unrelated tab you're on switches to "Mark this page as read", while the to-read page still hase the "Save this page for later" button.

Means the code shouldn't change the status of the tab which is currently active, because it could have changed before the requested page is loaded.

Bookmarking with ScrapBook into a specific folder makes the same thing. No need for another extension, I think.

Buen addon - nice addon!!

I have nothing to suggest but simply to say thank you for such a useful tool!

What a great idea. This will save me from some mad tab jam that I suffer badly from. A new favourite extension.

One of the BEST fire fox add-ons i've installed... really!!!! keep up the great job!
michael

Dude, this extension is awesome. It's such a simple idea, but it works so well.

Cheers. :)

Ultra Usefull thankx a lot ...
es suppose i'm not the first to tell you that ;)
But i want to tell it :)

Cya

I find that, I want to put my pages into an RSS reader (Net News Wire) and yet It isn't actually an RSS...

Nate! I heard of this for the first time from Lifehacker — congrats on your Mozilla award! http://lifehacker.com/5039968/mozilla-crowns-best-firefox-3-extensions

I wish I had found out about this earlier; I've tried Readbag and Instapaper, each with their charms, but didn't want to repeatedly have to load a website (all those seconds add up). So I was using the Firefox 3 1-click star bookmark for awhile.

But this looks even easier! And I'm glad you created a video tutorial too!

I don't like the appearance of Read it Later. The text is huge and ugly, like the awful "Awesome Bar" that many of us hate. Can you not have a small-text, clean version without all the annoying crap?

Works Great! I've been wanting something like this for ages that doesn't involve me cluttering up my bookmarks and having to constantly go in and delete items. The syncing is a great idea and the RSS feed was a really smart idea. Anyway big thanks from me.

Mike

I really want a greasemonkey scripts for google reader, and Read It latter. If we had both keybindings and a button in each item that would be very kewl.

This is one of the best and intuitive applications I've ever run across. I offer you my deepest congratulations and thanks. It is easy, it is useful, and it is perfect. Thanks for doing this. I'm sure it was hard work and many a frustration. I plan on posting a blog about it shortly. Great job and thank you!

Good idea for a plugin, but I've been using the delicious plugin and tagging my bookmarks with "read". Then I just delete them off of delicious when I'm done. This plugin seems to add some more functionality to getting around to reading those stories though.

Link for the website is not proper...there's an i at the end. please check it

Since I'm a renowned dimwit, more of plea than a comment. I can't Mark as Read anywhere on my copy. Guidance please?

OMG this is awsome. Well that is until it deleted all my history, bookmarks downloads and won't allow me to restore them! a pile of expletive! and it won't even allow me to uninstall it so guess what i can't solve it. thanks idea shower really great piece of software

Thanks for sharing! That is just what I need!

your new update wiped out 50 pages of read later articles. a great idea turned into a disapointment. i guess i will go back to the old file system. not as convient but i will always have the stuff i put there

caloloro

For some reason, my Read It Later list completely disappeared. Fortuantely I was able to restore it from a backup that Foxmarks automatically creates. Anyone know why my RIL list would have been erased?

REALLY good idea, VERY useful plugin, I used to save to read later but never read anything at the end.

Consistently receiving Javascript errors when starting Firefox 3.03 OS X with Read It Later installed. Sync between my windows and OS X workstations has faild so badly that I cannot open my 600+ read it later items, save by manually opening the Read It Later bookmark folder. I can email the detailed Javascript error.

The Read it Later program "Access Anywhere, Anytime,from Any Browser"... is not true. Sure, you can log-in and SEE your list in another Browser (Internet Explorer, etc...) but you can't work with it unless you are using the FF Browser.

SUGGESTION: If you are going to say you can use the Read it Later program ANY where- ANY browser-- if should A) have some directions how to use it properly/successfully in any Browser B) have instructions/install for ANY browser.

I don't always have Fire-Fox available to me- it really sucks that that also means I don't have my Read-it-Later list or functions when this happens. Got a suggestion or an answer already for this problem? I would love to get an email about it! Thanks-

The Read it Later program "Access Anywhere, Anytime,from Any Browser"... is not true. Sure, you can log-in and SEE your list in another Browser (Internet Explorer, etc...) but you can't work with it unless you are using the FF Browser.

SUGGESTION: If you are going to say you can use the Read it Later program ANY where- ANY browser-- if should:

1) have some directions how to use it properly/successfully in any Browser
2) have instructions/install for ANY browser.

I don't always have Fire-Fox available to me (I'm sure there are others in the same situation)- it is really annoying/frustrating when this means I also do not have my Read-it-Later list.

If this problem has already been addressed and/or already has a solution for this issue, please email with the email I was asked to leave within the form.

Thanks for your time!

I'm getting this error by the last two days trying to add new items:

INSERT IGNORE INTO list (user_id, item_id, given_url, `title`, time_added, time_updated, entered_by) VALUES ....

At me such question
I can not change the menu in Windows, it looks on new why that....
Help to adjust... At me of a Window 98

I lost all my list between last Monday night and Tuesday morning (GMT here). I now updated the plugin, it has a new option "Hard Sync" that doesn't work either to recover them :(

So the Help tab tells us to post here our problem, and that's what I did :)

Anyway, apart from that, thank you sooo much for this plugin!! :D I hope you have some time to check out my problem.

I'm a big fan of Read it Later, and the video tutorial helps show off its benefits! Nate's responsiveness and these color-coded comments are brill — what attention to detail. I just heard of the newest version from Lifehacker. THANK YOU!!!! :D

thanks
I really like this extension

I have had an article from each of these sites that cannot be removed from the read it later list no matter how many times I opened them. One finally disappeared after the article could no longer be accessed on the LAT site. The other article is still on my list. Can't you please add a right click/delete feature so individual articles can be deleted in that manner?

Hi,

I cannot create an account at your site. The homepage box says I'm entering passwords that don't matc, though I'm using copy & paste. The signup page goes to a 404 when I submit.

If there's a fix, or something I should do differently, please e-mail me, as I'd like to sign-up to enable multi-computer synching.

Cheers.

Anybody else getting the following error unchecking Google Reader integration and trying to press OK :
"[Javascript application] - Error saving options: ISRILxul.bip("folder").selectedItem is null" ?

Awesome extension. I am just having one small issue with the Google Reader integration. When reading from the office our company firewall blocks some feed aggregaters. So for example when I attempt to check a feed item from LifeHacker it just puts the company block page into the ReadItLater item. (example: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/CrbujRvdrsI/best-android-apps-to-boost-your-mobile-productivity-so-far). Is there anyway it could just do a straight copy of the feed item URL? Thanks!!

I downloaded the version 0.9924 just now for `Firefox 3 Beta 4' but the read it later button did not appear in the toobar or the addressbar. I can not access the preferences for it in the Tools->Add-ons->Extensions menu. What could be the problem? Thanks in advance.

Hi...

I would like to suggest new feature... a feature to download marked pages in background (for reading offline) but this option should not disturb browsing experince
i'm using time based internet connection so this addon is useful to me

issues on linux

for some reason .9924 have some problems with displaying menu correctly on first attempt on second works fine (memory leaks)
... and changing appearance from normal to condensed hangs entire firefox.
I have to go back to .9923.

Automatically have you Firefox add-on synchronize with your online account.

I'd like to mark a page to be "Read Later" with a default tag [say 'now'] (Set in the options) and then use the default "read now" tag [again say 'now'].

The idea is that I would use "Read-Now" both as a short term remember and read soon, these I'd leave tagged 'now' and then un read-now when I read them. On the other hand, I'd also use it as a longer term storage, and I'd tag those with other tags.

"Here are a few ways you can remove an item from your list in Firefox:

1. Open the page and then click the red checkmark in the location bar

2. Open your reading list, locate the item you want to remove and uncheck the red checkmark (it will turn empty). Close your list"

Why is step #1 needed now? In the past, I would delete items using step #2 ONLY, but not now! What changed?

Maybe I misunderstood. Regardless, after installing the latest update for FF3, marking something as read does not remove it from my list, as it did in the past.

Since the last one or two updates the facility to remove items from the reading list by just clicking on the list itself and unticking them from the list does not work.

What happens is that the item appears to be removed but once the list is opened again the item is back in place.

The only method to remove them is to either go the page in question and unticking them in the address bar or to edit the bookmarks

Please add my email address (provided in this comment form) to the user account "torbengb". Thank you.

Details: I want to login but it seems my password is different from what I thought. The form to have my password emailed to me tells me: "There is no email registered to your account. Could not send your password." Pleaes contact me if you have questions.

every time I start Moxilla a warning popup appears in the upper left hand corner. I want to disable read it later. It's very annoying. How do I disable it?

I've got a bbc.co.uk article that I cannot remove. It virtually ruins the program. CNN articles give the program fits as well.

i expect you understand that your RSS feed doesnt work - i have 566 reading list items right now - the RSS feed invariably shows me just the same 4... again: 4... doesnt seem right somehow... OSX 10.5.5 / firefox 3.0.4

Very useful extension, however I don't quite like the icon, how about make it more matching to the default theme style?

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It wont work. it juat leaves a mess in my bookmarks. and the brown icon does not even show up on the upper left like it should. this is a brand new soney I got here for 2,000 $ so the problem is not on my end.

Oh, it works on my other pcs.

@mdes

You can add a page that you've read back to your reading list the same way you added it the first time. Open the page and click the checkmark in the location bar or right click a link and 'save link for later'.

[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsINavHistoryService.executeQuery]" nsresult: "0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://isreaditlater/content/ISRIL.js :: anonymous :: line 366" data: no

Thanks for sharing your work with us! Your theme is just awesome!