RelaxedReader — A Firefox Addon to Fight Reading Anxiety

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.

Comments

[Fran González]

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!

[Andreas Tiefenthaler]

This is great! Thank you for building it.

[Jess Lee (she/her)]

Ooh, I like this!

[Alaeddine Messadi]

Awesome! Thank you

[Anton]

What is FIFO and FOMO?

[Michael Kohl]

• First In First Out
• Fear Of Missing Out

[Anton]

Thanks. I guess this is a common thing I didn't know. Live and learn everyday : )

[Michael Kohl]

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 ;-)