RelaxedReader — A Firefox Addon to Fight Reading Anxiety
Michael Kohl
Originally published at
citizen428.net
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Over the last few days I used Vue.js to build a small Firefox extension called RelaxedReader.
It's your typical reading list/bookmarking tool, with a few important differences:
- You can store a maximum of 10 articles. If you add more, the oldest will get pushed out (FIFO).
- Items automatically expire after 30 days.
- No notifications, badges, unread counts or anything else that prompts anxiety and/or FOMO.
- No tracking, third party servers or API calls. All data is stored in extension storage.
- Uses
storage.sync, so the reading list is synced across all instances of the browser that the user is logged into, across different devices.
It's simple. not particularly pretty, but does exactly what I need. Source code available here.
Posted on Feb 10 '19 by:
Michael Kohl
I dev @ DEV. Your friendly neighborhood anarcho-cynicalist. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻) are my two natural states. Tag mod for #ruby, #fsharp, #ocaml
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Discussion
This is actually a great idea. I've lost track of how many articles I have on my to-read list that actually go back to a couple years ago but I never really got into them. This would definitely help knowing that they'll disappear!
Ooh, I like this!
Awesome! Thank you
What is FIFO and FOMO?
Thanks. I guess this is a common thing I didn't know. Live and learn everyday : )
No worries :-) FIFO is a somewhat common term in computing, FOMO is definitely not someone you need to know unless you spend too much time on social media ;-)
This is great! Thank you for building it.