We’re excited to introduce upgrades to 2 of Inoreader’s most respected options for lively readers and researchers. Highlighters and annotations have been refreshed each in title and performance to make your expertise extra intuitive, versatile, and higher fitted to organizing insights. Learn on to find what’s new!
Say hi there to spotlights (previously highlighters)
Spotlights are a wise strategy to routinely spotlight vital phrases and phrases whereas studying, serving to you scan and type content material extra effectively. Now you can group associated key phrases underneath a single highlight and assign them a shared coloration, supplying you with extra management and context at a look. When you’re a part of a Crew, spotlights can now even be shared throughout members, making it simpler to floor shared priorities and collaborate extra successfully.
Spotlights can be found on all Inoreader plans, together with our Free plan.
How one can create and handle spotlights
To create a highlight:
- Go to Automate > Spotlights and click on Create highlight.
- Give your highlight a reputation and an elective description.
- Select a spotlight coloration and enter the phrases or phrases you’d like to trace.
- Resolve whether or not your phrases must be case-sensitive.
- When you’re a Crew admin, select whether or not to make the highlight seen to your Crew.
As soon as created, you’ll discover your spotlights underneath Automate, the place you may handle them individually or carry out bulk actions, like deactivating or deleting a number of spotlights without delay.
Spotlights for Groups
When you’re a part of a Crew, you may profit from shared spotlights created by Crew admins. These can be found underneath Spotlights within the Crew dashboard. Admins have full management over creating and managing them, whereas Crew members can toggle between viewing solely private spotlights or each private and Crew spotlights. If the identical time period seems in each a private and a Crew highlight, the Crew highlight takes priority. When a Crew highlight is deleted, it stays within the admin’s account as a private highlight.
Highlights and annotations: What’s modified?
What was beforehand referred to as “annotations” is now break up into highlights (simply the marked textual content) and notes (feedback on full articles or particular highlights). All of your highlights and notes nonetheless stay underneath Saved > Annotations, however the clearer naming helps distinguish between merely marking one thing and including extra context or commentary. Every thing you annotate, whether or not it’s a easy spotlight or a notice, stays totally searchable and safely saved in your account for future reference.
Notes can be found on all plans, together with the Free plan. Highlights are a Professional function.
A brand new textual content choice menu
Once you spotlight textual content in an article, a modern new menu offers you the next choices:
- Spotlight textual content solely
- Spotlight textual content and add a notice
- Edit or delete highlights
- Add or edit notes later
When you’re a part of a Crew, you’ll additionally see the choice to share highlights together with your Crew, making your insights seen to others. Every shared spotlight contains the creator’s title and profile picture for context. When leaving notes, both on full articles or particular highlights, you may select to maintain them non-public or share them together with your Crew.
Cell help
The brand new and improved spotlights and highlights are additionally accessible in our cell apps. To entry the most recent options and enhancements, be sure you’ve up to date to model 7.9.1 or newer on each Android and iOS. Please notice that older app variations are usually not appropriate with the backend adjustments and received’t help creating or enhancing spotlights.
A better strategy to arrange your ideas
These updates are designed to make Inoreader extra intuitive for customers who learn actively, annotate purposefully, and need to construct a searchable archive of their insights. Whether or not you’re utilizing spotlights to immediately floor what issues or highlights and notes to seize your ideas, we hope these adjustments allow you to work smarter, not tougher.
