Saving is a decision
Opening an article does not save it. Saving is something you do — from the reader, from the browser extension’s toolbar, from the Import page, or by connecting a read-later service you already use. What gets kept is the clean text along with the title, byline, site and date. Your copy stays readable after the original page changes or disappears.Three states and a star
Every saved item holds one status.
A fourth value,
skip, exists for items routed automatically rather than by
you.
Starred is not a status. It is a separate flag that survives triage, so an
archived item can still be starred. The dashboard gives Later, Starred,
Archive and History their own views, which is why an item can appear in two
places at once without being two things.
Read progress is stored per item as well, so the thing you started and
abandoned is a thing the library knows about.
Tags, and what Collections actually are
Tags are the vocabulary you search by. You can set them when you save, edit them any time, and set defaults that apply to every save in Settings → Library. smry also tags for you. After an article finishes extracting, auto-tagging runs in the background and merges its suggestions in. It never overwrites a tag you wrote yourself. You can go further and define a tag as a key plus a plain-English rule — “anything about hiring engineers” — and let new items sort themselves into it. There is a cap on how many such definitions one account holds.Collections are feed folders, not library folders. If you are looking for
somewhere to file saved articles, that is tags, stars and status. Collections
group the sources you follow.
History is a different thing
The library is what you filed. History is what you opened. A row is written the first time you open an article in the reader — no dwell timer, no scroll threshold, no click required. That makes History the honest record and the library list the curated one. Three details follow from how it is stored:- One row per link. The timestamp is the first time you read it. Opening it again refreshes the title, not the date.
- It works signed out. Guest history is kept locally and claimed into your account when you sign in, so nothing you read before signing up is lost.
- Synced references land in History and Archive, never Later. X bookmarks and GitHub stars you sync in are things you already dealt with, so they do not pile into your queue.
What it costs to keep
Library storage is 100 MB on Free, 10 GB on Patron and 100 GB on Pro. Separately, article bodies retained from ordinary reading are capped — 50 on Free, 10,000 on Patron. Items you deliberately save do not count against that, so saving something is the way to be sure the text stays.Questions
Does opening an article save it?
Does opening an article save it?
No. Opening writes a History row. Saving files a library item. They are
separate records, which is why your queue stays something you chose rather
than everything you clicked.
Does my library sync across devices?
Does my library sync across devices?
Yes, once you are signed in. Saved items, highlights, notes and History all
sync. Reader preferences such as font and width stay on the device.
Can I get everything out?
Can I get everything out?
Yes. Settings → Export builds the whole thing in your browser — a zip with
your articles and highlights as Markdown, your notes, your original
uploaded files, and JSON of the underlying data. No account required, and
nothing is uploaded to build it.
What happens when I delete an item?
What happens when I delete an item?
The item goes and an uploaded original is deleted from storage. Highlights
and notes you made against it are kept.
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Finding things again
One box across saved items, History, highlights and notes.
Capture it from anywhere
Extension, shortcut, bookmarklet, Import page, files.
Highlights and notes
The other half of what a library holds.
Ask your library
Put a question to everything you have saved.