Open in Instapaper Text

Open pages in Instapaper Text via the toolbar icon, keyboard shortcut, or right clicking links.

What is Open in Instapaper Text?

The 'Open in Instapaper Text' is a Chrome extension aimed at enhancing your online reading experience. It replaces the usual 'Instapaper Text' bookmarklet with a toolbar icon in Chrome. Additional functionalities include fast opening of links in simplified text format through right-click, customization of keyboard shortcuts, and optional hiding of the toolbar icon. Take note, all pages viewed in 'Instapaper Text' are not automatically saved in your Instapaper account. Once loaded, however, you have the explicit option to save the text-focused version to your account, gain access to your account, and tweak text formatting settings. Compatibility with 'Instapaper Text' varies among websites.

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By: rawbytz

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Users: 2,000+ ▼ -1,000

Rating: 4.70 (10)

Version: 2.2 (Last updated: 2017-08-31)

Creation date: 2017-08-31

Risk impact: Very low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

contextMenus
activeTab

Size: 23.51K

Email: ra*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 20031 ▼ 2851

Other rankings

#3960 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 7 #261 in toolbar keyword 21 ▼ 5 #278 in format keyword 14 ▼ 5

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Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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Replaces the "Instapaper Text" bookmarklet with an icon in the Chrome toolbar, PLUS:

• Right click links to open them faster in Instapaper Text without loading the original page first. • Assign a keyboard shortcut, and hide the toolbar icon if desired.

Important Notes • "Instapaper Text" does not add pages to your Instapaper account automatically, it only opens them in a clean, easy to read format. • Once loaded, you can "Save to Instapaper", go to your account, and adjust text formatting options.
• Not all websites are Instapaper Text compatible.

Ver 2.2: Updated to handle new facebook link format on right click.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Fixes issues with the original Instapaper Chrome extension
Great layout and user experience
Provides a distraction-free reading mode
Functions as a web clipper
Suitable for minimalism in browsing

Cons

Lacks an easily customizable keyboard shortcut
Requires multiple clicks to use effectively without a shortcut

Most mentioned

Desire for a keyboard shortcut
Possibility to open links directly
User-friendly reading experience

Recent reviews

Fixes instapaper's broken chrome extension, but I can't figure out for the life of me how to add a keyboard shortcut...

Christopher, 2022-09-27

This is the Reader I've been hoping for! (and I have tried a lot of readers).. Opens from link! Fantastic! And great layout.. What's more.. as an added bonus it saves like a Web Clipper too! It did require a login, but they don't fuss about requiring big name emails. I have seen a few Readers that let you set things to automatic Reader mode, and that can be good too, but you learn that some pages don't work well with all readers, and the link click method seems to be less struggle.

Pat MySecret, 2022-03-19

Perfect. Filled the role of exactly what I was looking for: a quick keyboard shortcut to instapaperize an article that I want to read without distraction.