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AaronMcHale
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Dec 19, 2019

Re: Reading List - Discussion

I think bringing over the reading list feature would be useful, yes you can technically use favourites to accomplish the same task, but it feels a little clunky since it's not designed to be used for rapid adding and removing.

 

Collections could be a good alternative, I haven't tried collections too much yet, but for Collections to be a useful alternative it would have to be available on the mobile app, since my main use for using a reading list like feature is when I'm on my iPhone and find a article I want to read I need a way to easily add that to a list for reading later on my desktop.

 

So whatever comes of Reading List, for me the priority is that it solves that use case and does it in a way where it's very easy to add items and then remove them once done.  YouTube kind of manages to accomplish this with their Watch Later feature, which is just a personal playlist but with quick context menu actions to allow easy adding and removing from that particular playlist.

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  • Rahsna Asurac's avatar
    Rahsna Asurac
    Iron Contributor

    AaronMcHale 

    I whole heartedly agree with this. It explains everything I expect from a basic reading list experience. Of course more functionality can be added, but as long as these basic scenarios are covered, I am satisfied.

  • HotCakeX's avatar
    HotCakeX
    MVP

    AaronMcHale 


    AaronMcHale wrote:

    I think bringing over the reading list feature would be useful, yes you can technically use favourites to accomplish the same task, but it feels a little clunky since it's not designed to be used for rapid adding and removing.

    It literally takes 2 clicks to add something to favorites, you can do it in 2 seconds.

    1. click on the star button on the address bar (omnibox)
    2. click "done"

     

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