New and improved instruments for energetic studying – Cyber Tech

We’re excited to introduce upgrades to 2 of Inoreader’s most beneficial options for energetic 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 whats up to spotlights (previously highlighters)

Spotlights are a wise solution to mechanically spotlight essential phrases and phrases whereas studying, serving to you scan and kind content material extra effectively. Now you can group associated key phrases underneath a single highlight and assign them a shared colour, supplying you with extra management and context at a look. When you’re a part of a Workforce, 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.

The best way to create and handle spotlights

To create a highlight:

1. Go to Automate > Spotlights and click on Create highlight.
2. Give your highlight a reputation and an elective description.
3. Select a spotlight colour and enter the phrases or phrases you’d like to trace.
4. Determine whether or not your phrases must be case-sensitive.
5. When you’re a Workforce admin, select whether or not to make the highlight seen to your Workforce.

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 Workforce, you may profit from shared spotlights created by Workforce admins. These can be found underneath Spotlights within the Workforce dashboard. Admins have full management over creating and managing them, whereas Workforce members can toggle between viewing solely private spotlights or each private and Workforce spotlights. If the identical time period seems in each a private and a Workforce highlight, the Workforce highlight takes priority. When a Workforce 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 cut up into highlights (simply the marked textual content) and notes (feedback on full articles or particular highlights). All of your highlights and notes nonetheless dwell 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 word, stays absolutely 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 characteristic.

A brand new textual content choice menu

While you spotlight textual content in an article, a smooth new menu provides you the next choices:

• Spotlight textual content solely
• Spotlight textual content and add a word
• Edit or delete highlights
• Add or edit notes later

When you’re a part of a Workforce, you’ll additionally see the choice to share highlights together with your Workforce, 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 Workforce.

Cell assist

The brand new and improved spotlights and highlights are additionally out there in our cell apps. To entry the newest options and enhancements, ensure you’ve up to date to model 7.9.1 or newer on each Android and iOS. Please word that older app variations aren’t appropriate with the backend modifications and received’t assist creating or modifying spotlights.

A better solution to set up your ideas

These updates are designed to make Inoreader extra intuitive for customers who learn actively, annotate purposefully, and wish 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 modifications enable you work smarter, not tougher.