Readstow

Guide

Your Library

The Library’s views, chips, sidebar counts, sorting, Jump to a date, the press-and-hold menu, swipes, and picking several articles at once.

Guide menuYour Library
  1. Getting started
  2. Saving
  3. Your Library
    1. The views
    2. Chips
    3. Sort, and jump to a date
    4. Press and hold an article
    5. Swipes
    6. Pick several at once
  4. Feeds
  5. Newsletters
  6. Reading
  7. Search
  8. Labels, folders, rules and Auto-archive / delete
  9. Bringing your library over
  10. Offline reading and storage
  11. Account and plans
  12. FAQ

The Library holds what you’ve saved and what you’ve chosen to keep. It’s the place for things you mean to read.

The views

Tap the R at the top left to open the sidebar. The first section lists your Library views.

The Library section of the sidebar: Inbox, Downloaded, Archived, Highlights, Notes, Newsletters and Deleted.
  • Inbox is what you’ve saved and not archived yet.
  • Downloaded is everything stored on this device, ready to read offline.
  • Archived is what you’ve finished with but want to keep.
  • Highlights is every article that has a highlight or a note.
  • Notes lists every note you’ve written. See Reading.
  • Newsletters is the issues that arrived by email.
  • Deleted is what you’ve removed. Items stay here for 30 days. Swipe right on one, or press and hold, to Recover it. Delete now clears it for good.

A number beside each view counts what’s in it. By default an Inbox shows "unread/total", for example 2/40. To change that, go to Settings → Lists → Sidebar counts and choose Unread of total, Unread only or Total only.

The Sidebar counts choice in Settings: Unread of total, Unread only, Total only.

Chips

Under the title there’s a row of chips. They narrow the list you’re in, in Library and Feeds alike. You start with three. All shows everything in the view. Unread shows what you haven’t started: articles you haven’t marked read and haven’t read any real part of. Pinned shows the articles you’ve pinned. Tap a chip again to see the whole list.

The chips are yours to choose. Press and hold any chip, or go to Settings → Lists → Filter buttons. You can have up to five, All included. Add Downloaded, Highlights, Long reads, Today, one of your labels or a saved search, drag to reorder, and tap the red minus to remove one.

Filter buttons: your chosen chips with a minus beside each, and the chips you can add.

Sort, and jump to a date

Tap the sort button (the up and down arrows) to choose an order.

The sort menu: Newest saved, Oldest saved, Recently read, Recently published, Longest, Shortest, and Jump to a date.

When the list is in date order (Newest saved, Oldest saved or Recently published), the menu ends with Jump to a date…. Pick a day on the calendar and tap Jump. The list scrolls to where that day starts. If nothing was saved that day, it lands on the nearest day.

The Jump to a date calendar.

Press and hold an article

Press and hold any article, in the Library or in Feeds, for its full menu.

The menu on an article: Select, Mark read, Reset read position, Pin, Labels, Folder, Archive, Open original, Share, Copy link and Remove.
  • Select starts picking several articles. See below.
  • Mark read or Mark unread. If you’ve read part of an article, Reset read position takes it back to the top.
  • Pin or Unpin.
  • Keep in Library appears on items from Feeds. It moves the item to your Library so it stays.
  • Labels… opens your labels so you can tick the ones that fit.
  • Folder… puts an article from your Library in one of your folders. Pick New folder… to make one on the spot, or No folder to take it out.
  • Archive or Unarchive.
  • Open original opens the page on the web. Share and Copy link do what they say.
  • Book… makes an EPUB of the article, or sends it to your Kindle (Pro). See Reading.
  • Remove moves it to Deleted.
The Folder submenu, listing New folder and your folders.

Swipes

Swipe a row to the left or right for quick actions. By default, swiping right in the Library pins, and swiping left archives or deletes. A short swipe shows both buttons. A long swipe runs the first one.

A row swiped to the left, showing Delete and Archive.

You can choose what each swipe does for the Library and for Feeds in Settings → Swipes.

The Swipes settings: a picture and two choices for each direction.

Pick several at once

  1. Tap ☰, then Select. (Or press and hold an article and tap Select.)
  2. Tap the articles you want. Select All picks everything in the view.
  3. Use the bar at the bottom: Archive, Labels, Mark read or Mark unread, Book (Pro), or Delete.
The bar at the bottom while picking: Archive, Labels, Mark read, Book and Delete.

Tap Done when you’ve finished.