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Store links to read later, organize tabs and windows
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# ReadLater: The Ultimate Tab Manager & Reading List
Lost a tab in another window again? We've all been there. With multiple projects and endless interesting articles, your browser quickly becomes a maze of tabs spread across different windows. Important work gets buried, your computer slows down, and your "read later" pile just keeps growing.
ReadLater is a powerful two-in-one solution to conquer browser chaos. It combines a simple, syncable reading list with a brand-new Tab Manager that gives you a complete overview of everything you have open right now.
# ✨ Meet Your New Command Center: The Open Tab Manager
This is the feature you've been waiting for. Our revolutionary new Tab Manager gives you a bird's-eye view of your entire browser session. Now you can:
See Everything in One Place: Get a clean, organized list of every single tab you have open across all your Chrome windows. No more hunting!
Find Tabs Instantly: Quickly search, sort, and filter your open tabs by title or URL to find the exact page you need in seconds.
Save with Precision: Add individual tabs to your reading list, or save an entire window's worth of links with a single click. It's the ultimate tool for session management and research.
And the Perfect Reading List for Later
Once you've organized your active tabs, ReadLater excels as your temporary inbox for things you want to read soon.
One-Click Saving: Instantly save any page to your reading list with a click of the icon or the handy keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+Y).
Declutter Your Browser: Close tabs confidently. Your reading list is a dedicated, clutter-free space for content, separate from your permanent bookmarks.
Syncs Everywhere: Your reading list is automatically synced across all your Chrome browsers. Pick up right where you left off, on any device.
# Getting Started
To get the full power of ReadLater, make sure you're logged into your Google account in Chrome and have extension syncing enabled. You can check your settings here: chrome://settings/syncSetup. This ensures your reading list and settings are always backed up and available.
Stop just saving links for later—take control of what's open right now. Install ReadLater today for a faster, more organized browsing experience!
# Change Log:
5.0.0
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Updated keyboard shortcut to "Ctrl + Shift + Y"
Added an "Open Tabs" section to the options page that lists tabs from all windows.
Features: search/filter, sortable columns (Title, URL, Window), per-tab "Add" button, "Add All Tabs" and "Refresh Tabs".
Window names are derived from each window's active tab title for easier identification.
UI/Files affected: src/tab.html, src/tab.js, src/tab.css.
Removed persistent identity permission from the manifest; identity is now requested on-demand (via runtime request) or surfaced as a CTA to open Chrome People/Sync settings.
Added a Permissions panel to the options page showing declared and granted permissions with short descriptions.
Added background service worker (background.js) to handle the keyboard command for adding the current page.
Changed suggested keyboard shortcut to Ctrl+Shift+Y (and platform equivalents) to avoid conflicts; remind users they can reassign under chrome://extensions/shortcuts.
Manifest now includes the "tabs" permission required for the new Open Tabs UI.
UI/Files affected: src/manifest.json, src/tab.html, src/tab.js, src/tab.css, src/background.js.
Fixed a small syntax bug in download JSON generation (missing parenthesis) that prevented the options script from executing.
Minor UX tweaks: "Clear saved links" button wired to the existing clear handler and the saved/tabs lists refresh after clearing.
Files: src/tab.js, src/core.js, src/tab.html.
4.0.3
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Allow backward compatibility with URL's not having timestamp.
4.0.2
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- Fix broken UI of 4.0.1
4.0.1
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1. Add URLs using keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+L
2. Cleaner API for managing storage.
3. Enhanced permissions.
4. Export URL's as JSON.
Thanks to Alexander Kashev for contributions.
3.0.1
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Added badge to the icon to show total stored links.
2.0.1
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New Slick UI thanks to Johny Jose
Icons and Shorter titles for links thanks FrelEsquif
1.0.1
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1. Support adding more than 31 links, max limit 512
2. Duplicate links not allowed
3. Data structure for saving links changed. Each link is saved as key value pair in the sync storage as opposed to the earlier version where all links were stored in an array.
4. UI bug regarding Message box changed.
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This is a google chrome extension for saving links for later reading.
All the links are synced across all the google chrome browsers you are logged into.
Download at: https://github.com/downloads/napsternxg/ReadLater/ReadLater.zip
Source Code at: https://github.com/napsternxg/ReadLater
FAQ at: http://smexyyweby.wordpress.com/readlater/
Latest reviews
- (2025-08-08) Abdullah Azmat: Tf is wrong with Google. Every update takes down a useful extension. First Ublock origin and now this
- (2025-07-12) Pierre Pandelé: Please please update this extension in order for it to be authorized again by Chrome, because it's so great !
- (2024-12-21) Igor Dugonjic: Thank you for everytihing, I have used this extension for a long time, because of the Chrome policy I had to bookmark all the links I had in the Read later, also because of this after so much time I am abandoning the Chrome, I just dont support the Google and Chrome policy like this. Thank you and best wishes!
- (2023-09-07) Samuele gg: Assente la funzione "Seleziona tutto" e non si possono aprire tutti i link, ma solo uno alla volta. The "Select all" function is absent, you cannot open all the links, but only one at a time.
- (2020-08-10) Chandan Gupta: Does it read Chrome user data like other apps?
- (2020-08-10) Chandan Gupta: Does it read Chrome user data like other apps?
- (2020-07-11) Alex Beyond: Simple, does what it's supposed to do.
- (2020-07-11) Alex Beyond: Simple, does what it's supposed to do.
- (2020-07-01) Greenview Publishing: Thank youshubhanshu.com Excellent extension. It has all what is needed. users should know that the list can be converted from json to excel spread sheet at http://www.convertjson.com/ you can convert the time stamp using this formula. INT(((COLUMN_ID_HERE/60)/60)/24/1000)+DATE(1970;1;1)
- (2020-07-01) Greenview Publishing: Thank youshubhanshu.com Excellent extension. It has all what is needed. users should know that the list can be converted from json to excel spread sheet at http://www.convertjson.com/ you can convert the time stamp using this formula. INT(((COLUMN_ID_HERE/60)/60)/24/1000)+DATE(1970;1;1)
- (2020-04-10) Bandar Abdulrahman: Great, but we need history for pages, because sometime we delete page by mistake.
- (2020-04-10) Bandar Abdulrahman: Great, but we need history for pages, because sometime we delete page by mistake.
- (2019-10-22) Andy R.: excellent tool. Simple & serves its purpose very well. you can export the *.json file it generates into a spreadsheet listing date you listed the webpage, page title and website address. thanks to the author, your work is very much appreciated.
- (2019-10-22) Andy R.: excellent tool. Simple & serves its purpose very well. you can export the *.json file it generates into a spreadsheet listing date you listed the webpage, page title and website address. thanks to the author, your work is very much appreciated.
- (2019-05-30) M. A.: Excellent for what it is for. A few options and additional functionality could be helpful, like option to close the page that was saved and more formats to export as, like HTML or plaintext. I've learned that this extension has hard limit of 512 links stored since and refuses to store more despite claiming success. This is rather unexpected and unfortunate limitation. Tho I think I'm in need of a different kind of extension for my needs.
- (2019-05-30) M. A.: Excellent for what it is for. A few options and additional functionality could be helpful, like option to close the page that was saved and more formats to export as, like HTML or plaintext. I've learned that this extension has hard limit of 512 links stored since and refuses to store more despite claiming success. This is rather unexpected and unfortunate limitation. Tho I think I'm in need of a different kind of extension for my needs.
- (2019-05-15) Per Aday: Perfect. Exactly my thinking on what extensions should be doing. Thanks.
- (2019-05-15) Per Aday: Perfect. Exactly my thinking on what extensions should be doing. Thanks.
- (2018-09-16) Victor Gascon: I like the simplicity of this extension. Just a basic place to store temporary bookmarks for future reference. Easy to add items, easy to remove them. Could it use additional functionality? Sure! But then it may get too complicated. Thanks to the author for a great application!
- (2018-09-16) Victor Gascon: I like the simplicity of this extension. Just a basic place to store temporary bookmarks for future reference. Easy to add items, easy to remove them. Could it use additional functionality? Sure! But then it may get too complicated. Thanks to the author for a great application!
- (2018-08-20) Eddie Murphy: I use this extension on multiple browsers. It's great. Easy to organize for the most important pages.
- (2018-08-20) Eddie Murphy: I use this extension on multiple browsers. It's great. Easy to organize for the most important pages.
- (2018-06-12) sundar rajan: good app
- (2018-06-12) sundar rajan: good app
- (2018-06-03) Alex Pakh: The only extension that allows you to export list (as JSON in this case). Very handy in many situations.
- (2018-06-03) Alex Pakh: The only extension that allows you to export list (as JSON in this case). Very handy in many situations.
- (2018-06-01) Bahadir Cagri BAYRAM: So simple and good. just as needed.
- (2018-06-01) Cagri BAYRAM: So simple and good. just as needed.
- (2018-05-29) MA Hye: Used to be excellent, but appears to be broken now. Clicking the Read Later button doesn't expand the window that showed all the items saved any more. Would be happy to change the rating if the developer could provide an update/solution.
- (2018-05-29) MA Hye: Used to be excellent, but appears to be broken now. Clicking the Read Later button doesn't expand the window that showed all the items saved any more. Would be happy to change the rating if the developer could provide an update/solution.
- (2018-04-24) Tanmay Joshi: Only thing needed in my life. <3 Loved the product! This thing should be viral.
- (2018-04-24) Tanmay Joshi: Only thing needed in my life. <3 Loved the product! This thing should be viral.
- (2018-01-10) Antonio Limori: Very good. My only pet peeve is that you can't change the title of the items and sometimes you end up with several links to the same website that all look the same.
- (2018-01-10) Antonio Limori: Very good. My only pet peeve is that you can't change the title of the items and sometimes you end up with several links to the same website that all look the same.
- (2017-11-11) Russ Humphrey: Nice and simple and just works
- (2017-11-11) Russ Humphrey: Nice and simple and just works
- (2017-10-07) LORDE 2729: Really needed this . thanks
- (2017-10-07) LORDE 2729: Really needed this . thanks
- (2017-09-17) jake erlich: I am unable to access the links I had saved... can you find them?
- (2017-09-17) jake erlich: I am unable to access the links I had saved... can you find them?
- (2017-09-09) Samuli Riekki: Worked well but latest update broke it. Cant see my stored links ! EDIT: Now works!! Thanks for super fast fix!!
- (2017-09-09) Samuli Riekki: Worked well but latest update broke it. Cant see my stored links ! EDIT: Now works!! Thanks for super fast fix!!
- (2017-04-06) John Lockard: Works well. Things I see as missing... 1. Context menu selection for "Add to Read Later". 2. Ability to re-organize the links in the list. 3. Add all open tabs to Read Later. 4. Open all tabs.
- (2017-04-06) John Lockard: Works well. Things I see as missing... 1. Context menu selection for "Add to Read Later". 2. Ability to re-organize the links in the list. 3. Add all open tabs to Read Later. 4. Open all tabs.
- (2017-02-08) nayma ge: Had to reset chrome, redownload this extension and my list is now gone. It should require an account.
- (2017-02-08) nayma ge: Had to reset chrome, redownload this extension and my list is now gone. It should require an account.
- (2016-11-08) Виктор Колбасов: ОТЛИЧНО!
- (2016-08-10) Dennis Long: excellent extension! one thing that would be helpful would be to have it update the number automatically on the icon on launching chrome. thx :)
- (2016-08-10) Dennis Long: excellent extension! one thing that would be helpful would be to have it update the number automatically on the icon on launching chrome. thx :)
- (2016-07-19) long night: Very helpful tools! And it can synced with all your browsers in the same g account! Thanks !