Standalone Read-Later-App that saves items in plaintext

[pseudometa]

Simple standalone read-later-app for Alfred. Saves the items in plaintext on your device.

 

Usage
- Use the keyword rl to add the current tab of the frontmost browser to your read-later-list.
- Any item in your reading list also shows up when using the keyword rl. Press ⏎ to open the item in your browser and remove it from your read-later-list.

 

Items are saved locally

• The items are saved in a local markdown file on your disk. You can set the location in the workflow configuration.
• The items formatted in the markdown task syntax.
  • Unread items as open tasks: - [ ] [title](url)
  • Read items as completed tasks: - [x] [title](url)
• This has several advantages:
  • No dependency on any read-later service.
  • The reading list is available offline.
  • Since Markdown is a widely supported format, you can access your items in many other apps as well, such as Obsidian.
  • Easy backup: Just copypaste the file.
  • Easy sync: Just save the file in a Cloud Drive like iCloud.

 

➡️ https://github.com/chrisgrieser/alfred-read-later

 

Edited December 30, 2023 by pseudometa
formatting

[cands]

Great workflow, thanks! It seems that Firefox is not a supported browser, is it possible to add?

Edited January 3 by cands

[pseudometa]

Thanks!

 

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It seems that Firefox is not a supported browser, is it possible to add?

Unfortunately not.

[cands]

Feature request if you think more people than me could be interested, I would find it valuable that the date when the url was saved is added to each item (e.g. appending after each item today's date like "(2024-01-14)"), so it is easy to distinguish new links from old links directly from the Alfred search. This could be optional to not frustrate users who have no use for that info.

[pseudometa]

1 hour ago, cands said:

Feature request if you think more people than me could be interested, I would find it valuable that the date when the url was saved is added to each item (e.g. appending after each item today's date like "(2024-01-14)"), so it is easy to distinguish new links from old links directly from the Alfred search. This could be optional to not frustrate users who have no use for that info.

 

Good idea, actually. I added that as opt-out feature: https://github.com/chrisgrieser/alfred-read-later/releases/download/1.1.1/alfred-read-later.alfredworkflow

[cands]

1 hour ago, pseudometa said:

 

Good idea, actually. I added that as opt-out feature: https://github.com/chrisgrieser/alfred-read-later/releases/download/1.1.1/alfred-read-later.alfredworkflow

 

Thanks a lot for the quick update! The date now appears very clearly in both Alfred and the Markdown file, and it is quite helpful I think.

Edited January 14 by cands

[pseudocannon]

Hello! Thanks for your work! But it seems not working on my mac. When I use rl, nothing happened. Do I need to use specific browser?

[Vero]

@pseudocannon Before running the workflow, open the Debugger, then use the workflow's keyword. If there are any error messages from the debugger, share them here so that we can help you further.

[vitor]

11 hours ago, pseudocannon said:

Do I need to use specific browser?

 

Firefox won’t work but other browsers should. I suspect you may be missing Automation Tasks.

[dood]

great workflow as always, @pseudometa! one request: would it be possible to add a Universal Action that allows any URL to be appended to the Read Later file?

 

I tried creating one and connecting it to the "get-browser-markdown-link.js" script. The link does get added to the Markdown file, but it doesn't have any formatting.

 

Thanks!

[blissofbeing]

It is actually possible to support Firefox via https://github.com/deanishe/alfred-firefox

 

For example https://github.com/spamwax/alfred-pinboard-rs and https://github.com/ajrosen/Bitwarden-Accelerator use it.