extension ExtPose

Outliner | Improving your reading experience

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Description from extension meta

Tired of distractions on web pages, I created this extension that uses services that improve your reading experience.

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Description from store This extension redirects the active tab/link URL to a 3rd-party service. They then do their magic, remove the clutter and you get your page more readable. Comments? Suggestions? Wanna call the developer names? Open an issue at the extension repo: https://github.com/taxpayer/outliner-extension Disclaimer: This extension uses 3rd-party services that remove clutter from webpages. Currently, it uses the services from: - 12ft.io - Outline TTS - Print Friendly - Darkread I AM NOT THE OWNER/DEVELOPER OF ANY SERVICE/WEBSITE LISTED ABOVE! I JUST CREATED THIS TINY EXTENSION, THAT USES THEIR SERVICE, AND THAT'S ALL. YES, SOMETIMES I ALSO HAVE SOME COMPLAINTS ABOUT THEIR SERVICES, AS YOU DO, BUT THEN I HAVE TO CONTACT *THEM* BECAUSE, UNFORTUNATELY, THIS EXTENSION CAN'T IMPROVE OR UPDATE OR FIX ANYTHING ON THEIR SERVICES. The listed services do not support and/or told me to create and/or told me also not to create this extension in any way, I did it for fun! ~~ Version History ~~ ### Version 3.3 `[05-Jan-2024]` Hey folks, long time no see! It's 2024 already! 🎉 Although it's been a long time, the extension is still alive, and at the beginning of this year, I decided to fix some bugs, get some UI improvements and exercise my Chrome extension development. So, here are the changes to this version: - Added an Open Page button in options dialog. Some users expected the toolbar button to open the page immediately because this was how the extension used to work. The button tries to bring the functionality back. - Fix 12ft.io service call after it changed a bit the way it works - Fix Darkread CORS proxy call. In the past, I created a script in Heroku to overcome the CORS imposed by the Darkread service. But Heroku closed its slugs free-tier, so I created Cloudflare's worker with the same functionality. The extension now uses this solution. - Options dialog UI improvements ### Version 3.2 `[22-May-2022]` - Added Darkread reading service! Darkread was suggested at https://github.com/taxpayer/outliner-extension/issues/4 and had really good performance in some sites I use to visit. Hope ye like it too! - BTW, I'm a huge dark-themed things - Fixed more stuff related to options loading. (Sorry, blame it on me https://open.spotify.com/track/61BqwgSRTyWH9M4uPjsC3B?si=5bf69c5c286c483c) 🐛 ### Version 3.1 `[29-Apr-2022]` Let's go bullet points this time: - Added Print Friendly reading service! - A friend of mine, a Linux user, showed me a screenshot of the options dialog which didn't render correctly the Segoe UI font. So, as a tribute to him, I changed it to the Ubuntu font, loading it from Google Fonts. - Fixed options saving and loading. Async stuff always plays a trick on programmers. ### Version 3.0 `[15-Apr-2022]` Yes, a new version to celebrate a great improvement. From now on, this extension officially has: 1. A popup menu where you can... 2. Choose between reading services available (more to come)... 3. And if you want your page opened in the current tab or a new one... 4. In 4 different languages (more to come) Outline's shutdown showed how important it is to have options. This version brings the flexibility to add (and remove) reading services as needed. Now the users of this extension can choose between 12ft.io and OutlineTTS to read their pages. Do you have another service you'd like to see here? Email me! ### Version 2.0.1 `[11-Apr-2022]` There was a typo in the extension description. Yeah, it happens... 🤦🏻‍♂️ ### Version 2.0 `[10-Apr-2022]` "The king is dead, long live the king!" Well, after almost 5 years, the beloved service Outline.com has shut down. For good. It was gone so mysteriously as it was born. During all the time, I tried to communicate with them and never got an answer. Their website and available data were minimum, and even their Twitter account was abandoned. Anyway, it was a superb service. Somewhat in February, I got the first signs it was failing. I waited a bit. They have been offline for some time in the past but then returned. Not this time. And about 2 weeks ago, their website is redirected to a different offering their domain, bids starting at $150k 👀💸 So, it made no more sense to keep this extension forwarding to their website (especially because I don't have a spare $150k with me here). So... This extension is moving to a new house. I'll start using 12ft.io. It's pretty straightforward like Outline.com was. Some users suggested **[OutlineTTS.com](https://outlinetts.com)**. I'm still studying how it works and if it's worth implementing it. Some of their back-end services look pretty weird, honestly. Anyway, this extension now hits v2.0, and I intend to implement some other backup services so that it won't depend on only one service. But I decided to keep the Outline's icon as a form of gratitude and always remember why this ever started. Keep reading! ### Version 1.5.3 `[06-Sep-2021]` - There was a small bug in the context menu item click the first time a page was loaded. This small update fixes that. (One bugfix a day keeps the 1-star away...) ### Version 1.5.2 `[01-Sep-2021]` - Okay, removing the "tabs" permission wasn't enough because the toolbar action requires the current tab URL. After removing that permission, that action stopped working. But....! Another permission named "activeTab" doesn't ask the user for approval (that weird dialog that frightened some users) and enables it to grab the current opened URL: precisely what we need here! So, I'm giving it another try to solve this problem definitely. (TBH, I'll wait on users feedback on this, as it worked flawlessly in my local machine). ### Version 1.5.1 `[27-Aug-2021]` - A user complained about Chrome requesting a new permission to enable version 1.5.0. I identified the "tabs" permission at the manifest was responsible for that. I also checked that the command I'm using to create a new tab doesn't need that permission. So, I removed it. Less permissions needed, more happy users! :-) ### Version 1.5 `[10-Aug-2021]` - Hey guys, long time no see! Since 2019 too many things have happened, the world has been through some real awkward-crazy times due to this terrific Covid pandemic, but I hope you're getting on, despite all the sadness and problems. - I removed a lot of unused code in this version, especially because Outline.com has changed their service since then and now this extension only opens their website with your link or page, depending on which context item you clicked, nothing else. - I also migrated the extension to Manifest V3, following Google's new recommendations, especially regarding permissions. - And I finally moved the source code to a public repo at GitHub. You can check it out at https://github.com/taxpayer/outliner-extension ### Version 1.4.4 `[12-Jul-2019]` - As my old grandmother used to say "The only thing that there's no way to revert is death. Everything else there's a way". So, the extension is back, breathing until the next block. :-) *Miss you grandma*. ### Not A Version, But a Message `[11-Jul-2019]` - Since yesterday, Outline.com, the real owner of the excellent service that this extension uses, has blocked access to its API except for its own site. It's like when you're a kid, you own a ball and just let the other kids you want play with it. So, for now, this extension stopped working because it depends on Outline.com to decide who can or can't use their service. If anything changes in this scenario, I'll let you know. Till there, it was good to help (and play!) with you people from 28 (!!) different countries in the world that installed this extension. ### Versions (1.4.2 && 1.4.3) `[10-Jul-2019]` - You know when you wake up in the morning with a strange feeling that something isn't really good...? Well, today it was actually all about an alarm that warned me the extension stopped working, due to Outline.com's API change. So, there goes an update on that. I hope everything is fine now. Now I can come back to sleep again... ### Version 1.4.1 `[17-Jun-2019]` - Just one more context menu, this one for the page, not the links. It's the same action as clicking the button in the toolbar. "If it's the same action, why did you create this?" Because I'm still studying the Chrome Extensions API, found out this (different contexts for context-menu items) and I LIKED IT. Don't blame me, it's like a child visiting a new toy store. ### Version 1.4 `[17-Jun-2019]` - You may have asked yourself what the heck is going on when you click the toolbar button or the context-menu item because you have no visual report of what is happening... ASK YOURSELF NO MORE! Now you have a fancy, non-intrusive, beautiful badge in the toolbar button indicating that the extension is querying the Outline.com website (grey with 3 little tiny dots, aka. ellipsis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis) or any annoying error happened (red with a big E on it, that "E" from error, in case you missed it). To those ones who know what a Chrome Console is, yes, I'm consoling the error messages, too. ### Version 1.3 - Corrected the context-menu creation procedure. Sometimes it wasn't showing up, and that wasn't good at all because it always makes me happy when I right-click, see the context-menu item and think "Oooh, I did that". - Now I save the Outline-created URLs locally to use it again (if you click that link again, of course) without querying the Outline.com website one more time. You know, to make things quicker. Ah, and also to save you some bytes from your expensive Internet broadband package. ### Version 1.2: - Now we have a fancy context menu to open the Outline.com link in a fresh new tab! You don't need to open a current page's link to turn that into an Outline link anymore! (You could already figure out that this extension tries to bring you (me?) the minimum browsing effort available, right?) ### Version 1."before 1.2": - Let's just say I created the extension because I just remembered to create a version history on version 1.2

Latest reviews

  • (2023-03-06) Vitor Talles: por que a extensão não funciona igual antes? agora tem que clicar abri o site copiar a url....
  • (2022-04-18) Leonardo Assis Cezar: Excelente!!! Essa nova atualização ajudou muito.
  • (2022-04-08) Anizio Silva: Rei morto, rei posto. Por favor Rodrigo, crie uma nova extensão para o 12ft.io!
  • (2022-03-23) Claudio Monteiro: should upgrade to outlinetts.com
  • (2022-03-23) Teresa Moreira: Rodrigo do you consider upgrade your plugin to Outlinetts.com because the original one did gone I found this https://outlinetts.com the best now! Thanks!
  • (2022-03-21) Thania Braz: Infelizmente não funciona mais. Acho que a culpa nem é dos desenvolvedores (talvez tenham sido forçados a isso), mas fica o aviso para quem for baixar.
  • (2022-03-05) leah_tard_: I loved this extension but now it doesn't work! Every time I click on it it sends me to a 404 "this site can't be reached"- what's the issue?
  • (2021-12-20) Luiz Carlos: Simplesmente genial. !!!
  • (2021-12-17) Jorge Ferreira: Very good, I didn't know this was a thing and now I'm so happy to use it!
  • (2021-11-27) Karen Pötter: Não funciona mais...
  • (2021-11-24) benjamin lee: not working for me does not work on rt.com sfgate.come
  • (2021-10-27) Rodrigo Menes: Nota 10!
  • (2021-09-17) Vítor Mourato: Used it once, worked as intended, I like it.
  • (2021-09-05) Malu Rodrigues: Awesome!! Helped me a lot :) Great work. Keep up.
  • (2021-09-01) NomdeGuerre: Stopped operating for me today--I have liked this app till now. I reloaded it, and still nothing, I don't know what changed.
  • (2021-08-30) Ricardo Brow: Parou de funcionar!!! Era bom, mas agora, não funciona mais.
  • (2021-08-28) Darius Kwiedorowicz: It was great until it stopped working a few days ago. Chrome 92.0.4515.159 on MacOS 10.15.7. Removed the extension and reinstalled, still no joy. Context menu does nothing, icon disappeared from the menu bar at top.
  • (2021-08-27) Luís Gustavo: Excelente! Muito prático!
  • (2021-08-27) Charles: I really liked this extension. But now, is requiring permission to read the web browsing history, why? I'll uninstall it.
  • (2021-05-20) Pedro Secchi: perfeito
  • (2021-05-12) Desmond Hawkins: I found this extension pretty much unusable. I opened a web page, clicked on the pinned Outliner icon, and it changed to show that it was loading (adding a few dots "…" in a gray box). After maybe 10 seconds without anything happening I just closed the tab and tried on another: same thing, no effect at all. I tried a third, and suddenly multiple tabs opened all at once to outlined versions of the pages I had tried it on. It was a good 30 seconds after the initial click and not *at all* what I expected, which was an immediate switch to outline (dot com) / current address. I'm going back to my basic user script which worked fine. As far as I'm concerned this doesn't work at all.
  • (2021-04-15) Eduardo Simioni: I really like it, I'm giving 4 stars because it could save us some work with an option (or default behavior) of opening in the same tab. Currently it opens in a different tab, then when I've finished reading I have to close the new tab, find the original tab and close it too.
  • (2021-03-21) Andrew Mendes: Excelente!
  • (2021-01-19) Fabrício Z. Pereira: True heroes wear no cape! Thanks for the updates, ma man!
  • (2020-12-23) Jefferson Lima: Era exatamente o que eu estava procurando. Ficar copiando e colando link no Outline é um saco. Agradeço à boa alma que teve essa ideia incrível.
  • (2020-12-13) Gustavo Ribeiro: Excelente extensão, não vejo a hora da funcionalidade de lista por regexp ser liberada, vai ajudar muito! Recomendo
  • (2020-11-18) Abdelrahman Gamil: I don't write reviews anywhere on the internet but this extension is really worth it! thanks to the guy who developed. I have been searching for something like this for years.
  • (2020-10-14) X W: Just loaded it up and it looks good but two immediate ideas: Maybe an option for the sites that we’ve sent over to Outline – the extension could remember the domain and automatically send it over next time we go to that domain? That way, I could click on certain links in my Google search and the messy website would automatically load into Outline. And another option to change the icon on the extension when on (popular) sites that do not work with outline at all? Like NYTimes.com and washingtonpost.com? I'm always forgetting which sites do/don't work with Outline and a visual reminder of the more better-known sites would be great.
  • (2020-07-15) Pedro Guedes: Funciona quase sempre, mas tenho problemas com encoding frequentemente, especialmente em artigos da Folha. Alguém sabe resolver?
  • (2020-06-26) Venator: Good.
  • (2020-03-11) Eduardo Welani: Cada vez mais, funciona menos...
  • (2020-02-22) Michel Reahc: Excelente aplicativo!
  • (2019-12-20) Led Dose: This is one of the best extensions I've downloaded. Thankyou so much for helping me. You deserved all five of those stars!
  • (2019-09-08) John John: Nice, useful, and just simply works.
  • (2019-09-05) Luis Fernando Anguiano: Hello Rodrigo! I have not been able to use "Outline.com" service for quite a long time. However I saw positive reviews from your plug-in an even comments from you as late as August 21st 2019 and thought hat I could have a chance. However, I have had no luck using it. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance!
  • (2019-08-12) Towfiq I: Great Extension. But Can you kindly add a shortcut feature so that I dont have to right click to open the link in a new tab? I ask becuase, you cannot use this on facebook.com which is actually most people get there news from. when you right click on an article (shared by a someone/page) facebook automatically encodes the link with their own domain eg: https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://medium.com/..... and this link doesnt work on outliner.com . I am not sure if its going to work on special click (ctr+shift+click). If not, you may have to add some code to get the original url of a the shared post on facebook. Please consider adding this, right now, the extension doesnt work on facebook. Thanks.
  • (2019-08-08) Mike Stezycki: Brilliant plugin, and even greater service! One click to remove ads, clutter, autoplaying junk. I wish the feature was built into Chrome.
  • (2019-07-12) Farshad Zolfaghari: Doesn't work
  • (2019-07-05) Blake Sterzinger: Very easy to use, and allows you to see content uncluttered by popovers/other nuisances.

Latest issues

  • (2022-03-31, v:1.5.3) Mike Weber: outline.com no longer seems to exist :-(
    I noticed this extension stopped working about a week ago ago and now the site domain is up for sale now. :-( Any suggestions for an alternative extension?
  • (2021-03-19, v:1.4.4) Natália Coelho: Não funciona mais
    Olá! Antes a extensão funcionava perfeitamente, mas agora parou. Diz que tem um erro e não sai mais daquela página. Tem algum problema com ela?
  • (2020-12-08, v:1.4.4) Gustavo Ribeiro: Sugestão
    Rodrigo, bom dia! Gostaria de sugerir a adição de uma list de regexp - ao acessar qualquer página dentro de um domínio/site que batesse numa regexp, a extensão automaticamente faz o Outline. É possível? Exemplo: Página: https://revistamarieclaire.globo.com/Noticias/noticia/2020/12/dani-ocampo-se-defende-em-caso-melhem-jamais-acobertaria-violencia-contra-mulher.html Regexp: /https:\/\/revistamarieclaire.globo.com\/Noticias\/noticia\/[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\/[0-9][0-9]\/[\s\S]*/g
  • (2020-07-25, v:1.4.4) lawrence d'Aniello: Create a link to a not linkable page
    Hello I have this institutional page: https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/atto/serie_generale/caricaDettaglioAtto/originario?atto.dataPubblicazioneGazzetta=2020-04-04&atto.codiceRedazionale=20A02005&elenco30giorni=true I click on "complete act" then on "view", bur the url does not work outside (Status: 500 Page not found). Is it possible to obtain a linkable page to the complete act? Thanks very much!
  • (2020-05-03, v:1.4.4) Marc Campabadal: Font and Background
    Hi, would it be possible to add a font and background colour adjustment (similar to Mercury Reader)?
  • (2020-03-22, v:1.4.4) Edward Clifton: never works
    Something went wrong We're sorry. This page failed to Outline. Report a problem
  • (2019-08-20, v:1.4.4) Mike Weber: Outliner Extension doesn't seem to be working
    I loved this extension but it stopped working a couple months ago b/c of Chrome Store issues. I replaced my old extension with the new one but it still doesn't seem to work. :-( I'm still getting the "Something went wrong. We're sorry. This page failed to Outline." message.

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Rating
4.2115 (52 votes)
Last update / version
2024-03-03 / 3.3
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