Read Later

The Internet is an infinite source of information and, as you navigate through pages in your browser, it is easy to lose interesting articles if they are not saved and organized. If you are like me, researching the web for a project only results in many pinned tabs that need to be read or organized later.

It felt like the developers of the Read Later extension created it for people like me, who don’t fancy using the browser’s bookmark system and want all pages within reach, pinned in the toolbar.

Read Later delivers a simple means of storing interesting articles that you find while browsing in Google Chrome. Pages are saved to a list that can be accessed with the click of a button, thus keeping the browser uncluttered with many opened tabs.

While rather similar to a browser’s bookmark manager, this add-on keeps things simple: it can save the selected tab or all the tabs with the click of a button, but it does not feature options to create categories or sort and filter bookmarked pages in any way.

Read Later is more like a stripped-down bookmark creator, allowing you to save articles for quickly accessing them later, when you need to read them. The advantage is that it helps you save interesting pages you stumble upon without pinning them in the browser.

You can also use a shortcut key (CTRL+ SHIFT + S) to save links faster. All the saved pages are shown in a list as you click on the extension’s button, along with the time they were saved.

Sometimes the simplest tools come in handy, and Read Later is one of them, as it can greatly help you conduct thorough online research. Being able to sort and categorize saved tabs would be an asset but it is more than clear that you can do that with the built-in bookmark manager in Chrome, so an extension with the same role would be redundant.