Can specify custom reading speed
- New Feature: Custom reading speed
- Update: Filter tab location to be fixed, so its always visible even when scrolling
- New Feature: If offline, turn badge bgcolor grey, show remaining wait time on hover
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AcceleReader – tagging, history chart & beta support
It’s been a good few days of updating all my Chrome projects with various upgrades, and bug fixes. Here’s a quick review of the updates to AcceleReader – one of the newest in my collection.
Update 1 – For the taggers
Add tags to articles from article-added notification when you add them to your Pocket list. The ‘Add Tags’ link in notification opens a pop-up to add tags to that article.
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AcceleReader version 1.2.0.0
- New Feature: Display Reading Stats as a graph, linked through options & browser button context menu
- New Feature: Add context menu to browser button to show popup options directly
- Update: Check if using Pocket Beta, every time getpocket.com is opened
- Bug Fix: Not adding tags for already added articles
- Bug Fix: Loads of bugs from previous update
- Bug Fix: Set default usingBeta false
AcceleReader version 1.1.2.1
Shows a cleaner tag list view
- New Feature: Show counts of articles against tags in tag list on /queue
- New Feature: Only show tags with >0 articles in tags list
- Options: Checkbox to ask if using beta (handle links accordingly)
- Update: On incoming items, update time-tags if incoming word_count is different from local item’s word_count
- Update: ‘background’ true by default
AcceleReader version 1.1.0.1
Add tags from notification
- New Feature: Add tags field inside add-to-pocket notification (buttons for ‘Add tags’ & ‘Read now’)
- Update: Adding tags for offline_adds
- Update: Tag list from nav menu on getpocket/queue doesn’t show time tags anymore 🙂
- Bug Fix: Sync Offline list on poller alarm if there’s offline items. If not, do refreshlist
AcceleReader version 1.0.3.1
Support for Pocket Beta users
- Update: Enable for Pocket beta
- Update: Add CSS from bgscript
Filter articles in Pocket by length & age
I’m happy to announce that the latest update of AcceleReader for Chrome brings article filtering to Pocket.
Articles may be filtered by age or length:
- By length1, articles can be filtered as Quick Reads (<4 mins), Medium (4-8 mins) and Long Reads (>8 mins)
- By age2, the articles can be filtered as Fresh (< 1 week), Ripe (1-2 weeks), Ageing (2-4 weeks), and Old (>4 weeks)
The filtering interface is brought up by:
- clicking on the total time displayed on top left, or
- by pressing the key ‘.’ (Period).
It can be dismissed in the same manner, or by clicking anywhere on the page.
After reading-time tags for mobile, this is the second big feature I’ve been enjoying using myself, and hope other users like it as well!
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AcceleReader version 1.0.2.0
Article filtering by age and reading time
- New Feature: Filter on page list by reading time or age of article
- New Feature: Keyboard shortcut to show filter pane – ‘.’
- Update: Down arrow key to indicate filter dropdown
- Update: Background permission
- Bug Fix: Handling user token limit errors
- Bug Fix: NaN tags – for items not previously scanned by Pocket
- Bug Fix: Notification errors on Add (type, iconUrl, title and message) – for items not previously scanned by Pocket
AcceleReader version 1.0.0.5
- New Feature: Option to NOT show article count on the button
- Update: Enable mobile tags by default for new installs
Article reading time in Pocket’s smartphone apps
I’m a heavy Pocket user, and a big fan of the service and their apps. However, lately I’d been feeling that Pocket had become more a never-again-opened archive of ‘articles I found interesting’ rather than ‘articles to read later’. My Pocket was bulging with loads of articles from years past by, many outdated, others irrelevant, a few real gems hidden under the tons of hay. It was time to act to save my beloved Pocket1.
After a bit of further study, and borrowing from the maxim – you improve what you measure – I decided that I needed two extra features:
- Count of unread articles in my Pocket, and
- Estimated reading time for each article.
Not finding anything on Chrome Webstore, or Android Play Store, that covered both these points in a single app, I decided to get my own hands dirty.
Last December I started work on Accele-reader for Chrome (formerly Pocket Plus). The target was to add to Pocket the few features that I’d been wanting for a long time (but were too trivial/off-focus for the product team at Pocket to develop):
- Unread article count,
- Estimated reading time for articles,
- Trello-like article ageing,
- Offline add-to-Pocket, and
- Read a random article (from my then *huge* Pocket list)
Accele-reader was, for my own use, a big success. Article counts, offline adds, and random articles were a bonus, but colour-coded reading time estimates were a big, big win!
However, with the good came the bad – the reading time feature was so good, that I desperately started missing it on the phone app2. A number of users also wrote in asking if I could somehow provide the article reading times on the mobile apps as well. I wasn’t alone.
Last week, another user – Konstantin – wrote in with the suggestion of a clever work-around. And here it is – reading time estimates for articles, now in your Pocket phone and tablet apps!
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