Capture and organize your thoughts while reading with a powerful annotation system that lets you highlight text, add notes, and view all your insights in one place.

✨ Highlighting Made Easy

• Select and highlight: Choose any text passage and press 'A' or click the highlight button to save it with notes and tags
• Four vibrant colors: Color-code your highlights with yellow, green, blue, or pink to organize by importance or topic
• Add context: Attach personal notes and searchable tags to remember why passages resonated with you
• Unobtrusive interface: Small floating button appears only when text is selected—never interferes with normal reading or copying

🎯 All Your Insights in One Place

• "My Highlights" view: Browse all your annotations across every article in a dedicated section in the Reader sidebar
• Powerful search: Find highlights instantly by searching the highlighted text, your notes, tags, or article titles
• Flexible sorting: Organize by newest, oldest, article, or color to find exactly what you need
• Jump to context: Click any highlight to open the article and automatically scroll to the exact passage with a helpful glow effect
• Manage everywhere: Edit or delete highlights from either the article or the aggregated view

💡 Smart Features

• Three ways to highlight: Floating button near selection, action bar button at top, or press 'A' key—choose what works for you
• Inline summary: See all your highlights at the end of each article with notes and tags intact
• Persistent annotations: Your highlights stay saved across sessions in your browser

Note: Annotations are currently stored in your browser. Cross-device sync coming in a future update.

Make smarter reading choices with visual indicators that show you which articles are paywalled and which feeds have stopped posting.

• Paywall awareness: Subtle coin icons help you identify paywalled content before clicking
• Inactive feed detection: Know when feeds haven't posted in 3+ months with clear visual indicators showing exactly how long they've been silent
• Everywhere you need it: Both indicators appear consistently across the Reader, feed pages, discover section, and admin panel

Also: Experimental WebSub protocol detection now available in the admin panel for identifying feeds that support real-time push notifications.

Save any web article to read later with automatic content extraction, transforming links into a personal reading library integrated with your bookmarks. This Reader feature is available exclusively for logged-in users.

• Save & read any link: Paste URLs to save articles with full content extraction, no ads or distractions
• Unified bookmarks: Saved links appear alongside feed bookmarks with 🔗 icons and support AI summaries

Email newsletters now display beautifully inline with optimized formatting, and all articles benefit from an enhanced "Links in this article" section with favicons and instant copy functionality. Note: These features require you to be logged in to your account.

📧 Better Email Newsletter Reading

• Read newsletters directly in Postreads: Email content now displays inline—no more broken links or error messages
• Cleaner, more readable formatting: Enjoy properly spaced text and tables that look great on any device
• Perfect contrast in all themes: Newsletter content always displays with optimal readability, even in dark mode
• Private and secure: Your email newsletters are only visible when you're logged in

🔗 Smarter Links Display

• Instant website recognition: Every link shows its website's favicon so you know where it leads
• See domains at a glance: Quickly identify whether a link goes to Wikipedia, YouTube, or any other site
• One-click sharing: Copy any link instantly with the new copy button—perfect for sharing with friends
• Smart link organization: Long articles with many links show the first 5, with an option to expand and see all

Discover a topic you love? Now you can subscribe to all feeds in a category with one click from the Discover page.

✨ Key Features

• Smart subscription button: Shows exactly how many NEW feeds will be added before you click
• One-click bulk subscribe: Subscribe to all feeds in a category at once, perfect for exploring new topics
• Smart organization: Automatically creates a folder named after the category to keep your new subscriptions organized
• Respects your organization: Already subscribed to some feeds? They stay in their current folders while only new feeds are added
• Intelligent merging: If you already have a folder with the same name, new feeds are seamlessly merged into it
• Clear feedback: Know exactly how many feeds were added and whether you already had subscriptions from that category
• Already subscribed? The button changes to "Already Subscribed to All" when you have all feeds in the category

🎯 How It Works

• Browse categories on the Discover page and find topics that interest you
• See exactly how many new feeds you'll be adding (e.g., "Subscribe to 12 New Feeds")
• Click the button to instantly follow all new feeds in that category
• Your new subscriptions appear in a dedicated folder in the Reader
• Manage the folder just like any other—rename, reorganize, or delete as you prefer

💡 Smart Behavior

• Only subscribes to feeds you don't already follow (no duplicates)
• Preserves your existing feed organization (feeds you already follow stay where they are)
• This is a one-time convenience action—you maintain full control over your subscriptions

Browse articles your way with new viewing options and find exactly what you need with powerful search capabilities in the Reader app.

🎨 View Options

• Cards view: Visual grid layout with article thumbnails for easier scanning
• Magazine view: Larger previews with extended excerpts for comfortable reading
• Mobile-friendly: All views now display article titles prominently on smaller screens
• Elegant placeholders: Beautiful Lucide icons and gradient backgrounds when articles lack images
• Cleaner header: Streamlined action buttons with consistent sizing across all devices

🔍 Advanced Search

• Instant highlighting: Search terms appear in yellow background across all results for quick identification
• Smart company filtering: Filter articles by mentioned companies with visual badges and auto-extracted suggestions from your content
• Date range filters: Find articles from the last 24 hours, week, month, 3 months, or all time
• Relevance sorting: Results prioritize title matches over content, with newest/oldest options available
• Progressive loading: Load 200 articles at a time with "Load More" button—search thousands of articles without performance issues
• Recent searches: Your last 10 searches are automatically saved for quick access

Your reading progress now stays in sync across all your devices. When you mark an article as read on your phone, it instantly updates on your desktop—and vice versa.

• Real-time synchronization: Changes appear within seconds across all logged-in devices
• Seamless experience: No manual refresh needed—just pick up where you left off

Your feeds now load dramatically faster and bookmarking articles is nearly instant. We've optimized how Postreads handles your reading data, resulting in pages that load up to 80% faster and much snappier interactions throughout the site, especially noticeable when browsing popular feeds or managing your bookmarks.

A single settings cog now groups "Stack feeds" and "Show images" into a compact, mobile‑friendly menu. Guests see images by default and can toggle visibility without an account.

• Unified menu: Clean settings cog with toggles for Stack feeds (auth) and Show images (auth + guest)
• Guest control: Images default ON; preference saved in localStorage and applied instantly
• Consistency: Auth image preference persistence fixed to reflect immediately after toggling

Take control of your reading experience with new muting capabilities and streamlined feed management directly in the Reader.

• Mute spammy feeds: Temporarily silence noisy feeds without unsubscribing—unmute anytime when you want them back
• Reader feed controls: Unsubscribe and mute feeds directly from the Reader app without jumping to settings
• Smarter feed discovery: Enhanced similarity matching with AI assistance helps you discover feeds you'll actually enjoy

Enhanced mobile experience with cleaner navigation and improved button layouts for easier browsing on smaller screens.

• Streamlined navigation with dropdown menu for Explore/Popular/Your Feed views
• Simplified pagination showing fewer page numbers on mobile to prevent wrapping
• Fixed button layouts in Welcome section to stack properly on mobile devices

Articles now display all external links in a convenient block at the end for quick reference and easy navigation.

• Automatic extraction of all HTTP/HTTPS links from article content
• Compact display with raw URLs for easy identification
• Available across all content types (regular articles, YouTube videos, Bluesky posts)

Get instant understanding of any article with AI-powered summaries that extract key insights and main points for faster reading.

• On-demand article summarization with a single click
• Key points extraction highlighting 3-5 main insights per article
• Powered by advanced AI for accurate content analysis

Navigate through all your articles seamlessly with improved progress tracking and reorganized action buttons for better usability.

• Progress bar now shows your position across all available articles, not just the currently loaded batch
• Navigation automatically loads more articles when reaching the end of a page
• Reorganized actions bar with logical grouping: navigation, article actions, and meta controls

Postreads now shows feeds and articles in your preferred languages (for logged‑in users), and UI language lives in Settings with smoother switching.

Postreads now automatically shares selected articles to X (Twitter) with clear titles, helpful hashtags, and clean links.

Small improvements to the home page layout and behind-the-scenes optimizations.

Removed redundant action buttons from the article view, centralizing all controls into the main reader actions bar. This provides a cleaner and more consistent user interface.

Completely redesigned the Hidden Posts section in user settings with modern card layout and improved user experience. Many under-the-hood improvements for better performance and maintainability.

Fixed critical issues with Bluesky syndication that were causing hashtags to appear split and URLs to be inconsistently clickable.

• Proper hashtag facets: Company hashtags now appear as single, clickable links instead of being split into multiple tags
• Consistent URL generation: "Read more" links are now reliably clickable across all syndicated posts
• Byte-accurate positioning: Fixed UTF-8 character handling for proper facet positioning in social media posts

Enhanced the Reader experience with smarter mark-as-read functionality, improved visual feedback, and innovative reading enhancement features.

• Bionic Reading: New optional reading mode that bolds the first letters of each word to help guide your eye and improve reading speed and comprehension (toggle with button or press 'T')
• Time-based marking: Mark articles as read by age - older than 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, 1 week, or 2 weeks
• Improved hover effects: Better visual feedback with blue outline effects that work consistently in light and dark modes
• Smoother interactions: Fixed visual flickering when marking articles as read with optimized update handling
• SEO improvements: Blocked Google from indexing millions of tag combination URLs to improve crawl efficiency

Added smart article footer buttons and redesigned the keyboard shortcuts modal for a more complete reading experience.

• Read Full Article button: Smart content-aware buttons appear at the end of articles - "Read Full Article on [domain]" for regular content, "Watch on YouTube" for videos
• Enhanced keyboard shortcuts modal: Modern 3D keyboard key styling with improved layout and visual hierarchy
• Improved navigation: Fixed YouTube video navigation and auto-marking articles as read with keyboard shortcuts

Conducted a major refactor of the application's layout architecture, fixing various scrolling, footer, and theme-related bugs for a more stable and consistent user experience.

Significantly improved the responsiveness and reliability of the Reader interface with optimized unread count synchronization and reduced console overhead.

• Faster article interactions: Removed performance-heavy logging for snappier read/unread toggles
• Reliable unread counts: Enhanced synchronization ensures accurate totals across all feeds
• Improved error handling: Better resilience when network issues occur
• Optimized memory usage: Reduced browser overhead for smoother scrolling and navigation

Completely redesigned the Reader component for mobile devices, transforming it from a desktop-only experience into a responsive, touch-friendly interface.

• Collapsible sidebar: Smooth slide-out navigation on mobile
• Hamburger menu: Easy sidebar access on small screens
• Touch-friendly buttons: Larger tap targets for mobile interaction
• Backdrop overlay: Close sidebar with intuitive tap-outside gesture
• Responsive article list: Optimized column visibility for mobile
• Mobile actions menu: "Mark All Read" and "Refresh" functions

You can now see how many unread articles you have across all your subscribed feeds, displayed prominently in the sidebar and browser tab title when logged in.

• Always visible: Unread count appears immediately after login on every page
• Real-time updates: Count automatically syncs when you read or mark articles

Improved feed URLs to use readable slugs and optimized feed listing pages to use significantly less memory, fixing performance issues when sorting feeds.