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Read It Later 0.99 ReleasedOctober 29

Sort By Quality with PostRank

Read It Later is a great tool for saving things to read later, but now it’s great for helping you actually READ those pages too! By sorting your list by PostRank (from AideRss), you can quickly find what’s worth a read and start with your best content first.

Google Reader Integration

If you use Google Reader to manage your RSS feeds, you’ll now find the familiar Read It Later checkmark right next to the Google Reader star. You can now save directly to your reading list from Google Reader!

Customize Read It Later

Now you can take full advantage of all the features of Read It Later without the UI bloat. Almost all of Read It Later’s components can be hidden and/or customized to your liking. You can use all of the provided elements or even run Read It Later from a single 10×10 icon in the location bar.

New Appearance Options:

Choose between two list views (Normal and Condensed)
Open Read It Later in the sidebar
Select how many items to show per page
Use a scrollable list instead of a paged reading list
Enable/Disable R

Read It Later Wins Mozilla’s Extend Firefox CompetitionAugust 21

On August 2nd 2007, just over a year ago, I walked through a little tutorial on how to make a Firefox Extension. It was that night I started working on an idea of mine, Read It Later.

I ‘released’ Read It Later a few days later on the 6th. I say ‘released’ because all I did was send it to a few friends and put an entry for it on my website, which was getting about 6 hits a day.

I had never expected Read It Later to reach even 1/4 of what it has. It was created to help me keep track of articles that I wanted to read but couldn’t while I was at work. However, during fall of last year, Lifehacker, MakeUseOf, and DownloadSquad picked up on the add-on.

Since then Read It Later’s user base as been growing strong.

But during this past year, I’ve learned one very important thing about application development: listen to your users. Luckily, my user

Another Batch of Read It Later Updates!July 30

Make a Suggestion!

As you can see (by the users listed below who made each implemented suggestion), I take user suggestions very seriously.

If you have an idea on how to improve Read It Later (big or small), please let me know!

The Big Ones:

Online Access - Manage your list online, in any browser or mobile device. In Safari, Internet Explorer, or an iPhone. Click the ‘Access Anywhere’ link at the top of your reading list for more.

Search - The tag dropdown has been replaced with a search-as-you-type field. It will search through the titles, urls, and tags of the items in your Reading List.
Suggested By: Zeke, Praveen

Auto-Syncing - For those of you who forgot to sync your reading list before heading home after work, now you won’t have to. If you are using sync, Read It Later will automatically sync your list in the background after starting up and every few hours afterwards.
Suggested By: bds, James, Rob, How to Geek

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