Add a "Read later" bookmarklet

[nodiscc]

Reported by @sebsauvage at https://github.com/sebsauvage/Shaarli/issues/7:

This button would:

Immediately record the current page link in Shaarli (no dialog). The link would be private. This link would bear a special tag (such as TLDR).

This way, you could keep link to read later at the single click of a button.

Does this button require a visual feedback ? (like an in-page CSS popup ?)

[e2jk]

Yeah, I would gladly stop using readability.com for my own self-hosted solution! (although it wouldn't do the "keep only the content" part that is also pretty nice...)

[kalvn]

I think it would require indeed a visual feedback (like a gray or semi-transparent background to show that it hasn't been reviewed yet). But most of all it would require a specific page to show all "to-read-later" links. And maybe a way to quickly review them so they are added with regular links.

[nodiscc]

In the first time I think we can:

• Add a bookmarklet ✚Read later to the tools page.
• When clicked, this bookmarklet opens a small Shaarli window, saves the link as private with a specific tag (let's hardcode readlater first), displays Link saved in your read later list!, and autocloses after 2s.
• Explain how to access the readlater list in the tools page (basically just a link to ?searchtags=readlater)

Sounds good?

Edit: and for what @e2jk suggested, you can already self-host wallabag which is a read-it-later service with improved readability features. It can fetch RSS feeds items automatically, just point it at https://my.shaarly.url/?do=rss&searchtags=readlater

[nodiscc]

The pull request https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/issues/192 works but I'd like to move this to a plugin. See https://github.com/nodiscc/Shaarli/blob/readlater-bookmarklet/tpl/TODO.md. Blocked by https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/issues/14

[nodiscc]

Feedback needed :)

• Should we add a "Read Later" bookmarklet by default on the tools page (saves a link as private, tagged readlater)? I don't mind if there is a confirmation dialog. In this case there needs to be a button somewhere to quickly access links tagged readlater.
• Should we go the "plugin" way I suggested (see https://github.com/nodiscc/Shaarli/blob/readlater-bookmarklet/tpl/TODO.md#the-plugin-itself)? This may be over engineered, but it allows creating multiple lists with different roles+quick access buttons.

[nodiscc]

Note that a "true" read-it-later solution would be available with the proposed wallabag plugin

[nicolasdanelon]

Please add as plugin.. There's a lot of php apps for read it later :) its a nice plugin for shaarli

[ArthurHoaro]

It can be a plugin. If it's only another bookmarklet, might not be necessary though.

[nicolasdanelon]

I think that too. it might not be necessary

[virtualtam]

+1 for having bookmarklets as plugins :)

[Quentin-ctrL]

In the plugin list, I can't find a "Read later" plugin. https://shaarli.readthedocs.io/en/master/Community-&-Related-software/ Is there something new ?

[ArthurHoaro]

This issue is still open, so it does not exists yet.

[ArthurHoaro]

I have thought about this, and I think that we should add a full featured core plugin « Read it later ». A bunch of bookmark manager or related software have this, as a flag visible in the UI. I have started to work on a proof of concept. So the idea would be:

• add the bookmarklet as mentioned by this issue
• add a button on linklist to mark as read/unread
• add a visual helper to easily see unread links
• add two filter to display read and unread bookmarks

PoC UI idea (subject to change):

Any feedback is welcome.

[nodiscc]

Where would you store the read/unread status? Another field in the datastore entry? Special unread tag?

[ArthurHoaro]

I recently added an additionalContent field in bookmarks. I plan to store the flag in this field, and pass it through formatters (so yes, in the datastore).