Want to save pages for reading later, and keeping the tabs open just for this reason? Or using the old style of bookmarking them? Its time to close the tab or forget traditional bookmarking and get to know about few extensions provided by chrome. There are several extensions provided by Google at the Chrome Web Store and lets have a look at the popular ones. Is a very simple and light-weight app. It is a bare-bones extension with no graphics which contributes to the swiftness of this extension.It just keeps a list of links you choose to read later. If you find an interesting page just click on the extension’s icon and then click on “SLC” (Save for Later and Close).
How to Mark Stories As a Read/Unread in Chrome on iPhone and iPad; How to Delete Saved Stories in Chrome on iPhone and iPad; Save Web page to Read Later in Google Chrome on iPhone and iPad. First off, you need to update Chrome to the latest version on your iOS device. Then, launch the web browser and head over to the article you want to save.
The page will be saved and the tab will be closed, helping you avoid unnecessary clutter! Also when you happen to find time to read your page using the extension, it automatically removes the link from your read list, leaving you no work to delete it. Is another very simple Chrome extension.
After installing, just click the extension’s icon when you want to save a page, and the click on “Postpone Page”, this will add the page to the list and icon changes to reflect the number of pages you have saved. Same as To be Read, when you open a page through the list, that page is automatically removed from the list.
Don’t worry that your list shows up only 5 items, you have a search box here, which you can use to look for pages using keywords from the title. Unfortunately, you have to remember a keyword from the title; the extension doesn’t search within articles. What we seen so far are extensions that make our bookmarking easy online. What if we want to read them offline?!
Here is an extension for that too. Allows you to open a fresh account with or use a Google account to store a certain number of bookmarks and cached pages online. Though it is not explicitly mentioned, hopefully you can store unlimited bookmarks; apply 1000 highlights a year; and keep cached versions of 30 pages according to the constraints of the free account. Buying the Basic or Premium plans would open up more. To save a page just right click anywhere on the page and select ” Read Later”; your page will be saved. The reading pane gives you choice of two views – the original as on the web, and a plain text view (but the article graphics are retained) that’s clear and uncluttered.
Notice the little round icon on top next to the Archive, Delete, and Open in new tab? That icon links you to the search engine which brings up similar sites to the one your article is published on!
Browser tabs, amiright? For those of us old and/or geeky enough to remember when tabbed browsing first became available, it was a godsend. No more stacks of never-ending browser windows all over the place. Of course, we still have the same underlying problem. We still have too much stuff open in our browsers; it has just shifted to too many tabs instead of too many windows. Often these tabs are things we no longer need, so that is no problem – close away. But what if they are something we want to research later?
What if they are reference material, or items that require some sort of action? Technology wizard Justin Lancy (aka Veritrope) has put together this fantastic list of resources for Mac users (sorry, Windows friends) that allow you to capture those open tabs and quickly do something with them: Here’s a strategy that you might consider trying: Prepare some tools which can, at the moment you’re ready, put all those tabs exactly where you need them so you can close those tabs.
If most of those tabs are really your to-do list, line them up in one window and then get them into your actual to-do list. I’ve found that if your tools are easy to use, you’ll be more likely to make it a part of your routine. That’s the key – Getting in the habit of not letting those open tabs accumulate.
If you are using Safari or Chrome, he’s created AppleScripts to save your open tabs to Text files, Evernote, OmniFocus, OmniOutliner, Reminders, and DEVONthink Pro. He’s even packaged them up in easy Alfred workflows and Launchbar 6 actions. I’ve found the Alfred Chrome-to-OmniFocus one super handy because that is how I roll, but I am going to start playing with the Evernote ones as well. Thanks Justin! Now I just have to actually take action on these tabs I am putting into my task manager.