Tired of COPYing and PASTEing URL's in Outline.com website, I created an extension
This extension basically does a copy and paste of the current tab URL into the Outline.com API, returning the created page (if no error occurs, BTW).
Disclaimer: Outline.com does not support and/or told me to create and/or told me also not to create this extension in no way, I did it for fun! (And because I was tired of COPY and PASTE, to be honest)
~~ Version History ~~
[12/097/2019] Version 1.4.4:
1. 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 next block. :-) *Miss you grandma*.
[11/07/2019] Not A Version, But a Message:
1. Since yesterday, Outline.com, the real owner of the excellent service that this extension uses, has blocked access to its API except from their 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 decides 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.
[10/07/2019] Version (1.4.2 && 1.4.3):
1. You know when you wake up in the morning with a strange feeling that something isn't really good...? Well, today in fact it was all about an alarm that warned me the extension stopped working, due to an 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...
[17/06/2019] Version 1.4.1:
1. Just one more context-menu, this one for the page, not links. It's 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 Extesions API, found out this (different contexts for context-menu items) and I LIKED IT. Don't blame me, it's a like a child visiting a new toy store.
[17/06/2019] Version 1.4:
1. 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 (gray 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:
1. 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".
2. 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) K. P. R.: 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) Maria Rodrigues: Awesome!! Helped me a lot :) Great work. Keep up.
- (2021-09-01) DarkViolette: 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 Gad: 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.
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Rating
4.2115 (52 votes)
Last update / version
2024-03-03 / 3.3
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