Google Chrome Extensions: Postponer

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Postponer is a pair of Chrome extensions to add to and manage your Read It Later reading list.

Postponer integrates RIL’s great bookmarklets with Chrome’s interface for a simple way to manage your reading list.

Postponer Adder adds an icon in the Chrome address bar for quickly adding items to your reading list. It also adds an icon next to every article Google Reader to add it to your reading list.

Postponer Manager adds an icon in the Chrome toolbar to open your reading list with all your unread items. From there, you can open items, mark as read, etc. It can also show the number of unread items in your list on an icon badge (go to the Options page to enable this).

The extensions were designed to be used together, but can also be used on their own. The reason why there are two extensions is because Chrome does not allow one extension to add icons to both the address bar and the toolbar.

Download

You can download both extensions from the Google Chrome Extensions Gallery.

Download Postponer Adder

Download Postponer Manager

License

Code open source under the GPL 2.0 and is available at http://code.google.com/p/chromepostponer/

Postponer is still under development and may be buggy. Please report any issue at http://code.google.com/p/chromepostponer/issues/entry

Screenshots

PostponerAdderScreen

Postponer Adder

PostponerManagerScreen

Postponer Manager

  • http://askolah.blogspot.com/ askolah

    thanx alot, i'm giving it a test

  • sehs

    thank you juliana …

    nice work …
    i will try it

  • http://patrickmiddleton.com Pmiddy

    Love the Chrome extension. Much more appeasing to the eyes than even the creator of RIL's!

    Thanks Juliana

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  • http://www.webanalyticsupdate.com lebendig

    I tried your extensions and they work really well, also on Google Chrome under Ubuntu Linux :) Thanks a lot! It's very useful.

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  • AA

    Can you add it to the official extensions directory?

  • http://julianapena.com Juliana Peña
  • leeiio

    Good job!I really like it!

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  • googly

    Nice work so far!

    Feature requests:
    - Hotkey for marking as read + closing tab, or if hotkey isn't feasible, make it possible to do it by right-clicking the address bar icon
    - A way to add links to the list, preferably like the Firefox extension's Alt+M mode

  • http://julianapena.com Juliana Peña

    I'm glad you like the extension! About your feature requests:

    - Actually, adding a hotkey is more feasible than right-clicking the address bar icon, as the latter is currently impossible with Chrome's extension API. I still haven't implemented marking as read as part of the extension, but I'll look into this.

    - Click-to-add mode is an interesting feature. I've filed a feature request for this (http://code.google.com/p/chromepostponer/issues…) and will implement it when I have the time. If you're into JavaScript coding, you can take a look at the code (http://code.google.com/p/chromepostponer/source…) and help if you want to.

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  • sbs90

    I'm a computer Engineering student at UF (Florida) and I use readitlater a lot. It's nice to see this for chrome, I love it! It's also nice to see you're a girl, it's hard to see girl developers. Oh, and you're Colombian, I am too:)

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=504736523 Brian B

    very nice, thanks!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=504736523 Brian B

    very nice, thanks.

  • shogun168

    Superb =] … although anyway to make the manager save things locally or make it load up faster? quite a noticeable lag when i click it ..

  • http://www.theurbanshogun.com Shogun168

    Superb =] … although anyway to make the manager save things locally or make it load up faster? quite a noticeable lag when i click it ..

  • http://inmyopinion-amonavis.blogspot.com Indulekha

    I’ve been using RIL on firefox and really wanted it on chrome too as I keep switching between the browsers and I have bookmarked a million pages. I totally love this chrome addon! Thank you so much for developing it. I really wish I could buy you a coffee :( maybe some day xoxo

  • http://openid-provider.appspot.com/gregor.rosenauer grexe

    great work, thanks a lot! Works fine so far – I guess I’m the last one to discover ReadItLater;) (well maybe I did not realize how handy it is compared to Google Bookmarks with tag “read” or leaving 1001 tabs open or using E-Mail;)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matt-Jackson/100000813128978 Matt Jackson

    Thanks!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matt-Jackson/100000813128978 Matt Jackson

    Awesome.Thanks!

  • df

    Love it in Firefox but don’t want to have to log in to use it in Chrome.

  • Cpthector23

    Muchas gracias, si que sabes programmar.

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  • http://twitter.com/arielfmdp_foto ariel fernández

    Hola Juliana, un gusto conocerte. Realmente me has sorprendido gratamente con tu currículum ! :-)
    Instalé la extensión Postponer para Chrome, y es verdaderamente útil y funcional.
    Ojalá se pudiera hacer también para Opera Mobile…yo lo uso en mi Nokia 5530 que tiene Symbian, pero bueno…todo no se puede…
    Te felicito por todos tus trabajos, proyectos (terminados y futuros) y también por la pasión que le ponés a lo que hacés.
    Saludos desde Argentina.
    Ariel

  • http://julianapena.com Juliana Peña

    Hola Ariel, gracias por usar Postponer! Creo que no es posible en estos momentos hacer extensiones para Opera Mini, pero podrías hecharle un vistazo a los bookmarklets de Read it Later a ver si eso te puede servir :)

  • Splenderanno

    Wow, llevo ya varios meses usando las extensiones regularmente y leyendo tu blog veo que fueron creadas por alguien también del CEM, muchísimas felicidades! Fue una gran sorpresa. En verdad hacen una diferencia a la experiencia de navegación pero sobretodo es grato saber que la comunidad cercana es productiva y destaca con ideas tan bien ejecutadas como ésta.

  • Anonymous

    Started using Chrome for a project (out of necessity). Installed your Postponer Adder extension. Must have missed something. What username and password am I to sign in with? How do I sign up?

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  • Alasdairkcumming

    Like the idea of this app the add icon disappears on certain sites. Is there a reason for this?

  • bibu

    Hi!
    I like your extension but I wish it had one more feature to Adder. I’d like to add a link to Read It Later List on a right-click menu (if it work on a images-links it will be really great).
    E.g. I click on a “Download Postponer Adder” with RMB, then I choose “Add to Read It Later” and voila :).

  • maki

    Thanks from Hungary.
    Good Work!

  • http://twitter.com/jelmuhr Jelmer Borst

    Your Read it Later account

  • Sylvain

    Great extension! It just work as well as the the “official” one for Firefox from RIL. I just bought you a couple of coffees to say thanks ;-)

    Cheers from Montréal, Québec (Canada)

    Sylvain
    sylvainm.com

  • Sean

    Thank you for the extension! Couple changes/additions I’d like to see:

    - Tag suggest: as you type, it suggests tags already used in your account. 
    - Tag field gets focus when you click the icon. Currently, the path is [click icon] – [click tag field] – [type tags] – [press Enter]. Would like it to be [click icon] – [type tags] – [press Enter].
    - Change the icon to a checkmark icon that indicates if the page is already added to your unread list.
    - A keypress to initiate an add.

  • Invitado

    Excelente aplicación! Y muy práctica para el Chrome. Igual a la de Firefox! Gracias!

  • Franz

    Hi there. Thanks a lot for this tool, really helpful and sleek.

    Best regards
    Franz (Germany)

  • Atharva Patel

    Good plugin Juliana ! Very useful one and  well implemented : ) 

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  • Dimitris Mousadakos

    Great job, congrats!

    installed and keep em both.. :)

  • Diana Avila

    Gracias por la extensión, saludos de una Mexicana desde Toronto

  • Stravinskii

    Nice, I’ll try it later since my other extension dissapeared.
    Cheers.PS. Saw you are a Computer Scientist studying in México, great to hear that. Me too. Im in UNAM. Hope you are too.:)

  • Lex Sijtsma

    Great tool. Thank you very much! I can do without the Saved! window though.  Just the nice clean save-window is enough.

  • http://twitter.com/ahmetalpbalkan Ahmet Alp Balkan

    I was also in Redmond as SDET intern this summer and that’s a great plugin and you know what I have visited your website before. You’re doing good, keep up working, nice to know you! :)

  • Djdieben

    Great extension! Maybe clicking the postponer icon a second time should close the window though, rather than showing it again after a blink. Confused me at first, is what I’m saying. 

  • Jobran

    thanks ! 

  • SolidZORO

    这真是非常好用的一个软件啊。

  • Simonblackley

    Brilliant! Thanks. “They already are in the official gallery”. Yes, they are, but the link on Read It Later’s own Chrome Apps page leads to your page and not to the official gallery. This could be off-putting for some people. I think you’ll get more downloads if you can change it.

  • Tolga BALCI

    Juliana, that’s a great extension. Thank you!

    Cheers from Istanbul, Turkey

  • Anonymous

    awesome extension!

  • Iván Leis

    Gracias, funciona perfecto bajo Mac OS X 10.6.8, buen trabajo, saludos desde España.

  • Efrenlopezfernandez

    Gracias desde el otro lado del Atlántico, en Vigo.
    Funcionan muy bien las dos extensiones, salvo la parte del icono en cada noticia de Google Reader.
    Lo dicho, muchas gracias.

  • Efrenlopezfernandez

    Funciona bien. Solamente había que reiniciar Chrome. :-)

  • Yuval Shafir

    Muchas gracias hermosa, me sirves buenisimo.
    Yuval de Israel

  • Winfried Terhalle

    Hello Juliana!
    Why isn’t it possible to save in google reader with one click? Now I have to click three times (including closing the little window) to mark one article.

    Sorry for my english. Greetings from Berlin, Germany