I like getting comfortable when I read. I grab a cup of tea, sink into my favorite chair, put my feet up, and then crack open the book. Getting cozy and tuning out distractions helps me focus. Unfortunately, online reading doesn’t let you do that. Before you even finish the first paragraph, you’re clicking on links. Five minutes later, you’re buying a new tent and wondering how you ever got there.
There’s a better way. Introducing our new browser extension, Evernote Clearly. Available now for Google Chrome (other browsers are coming soon).
Get Evernote Clearly from the Chrome Store »
With one click, Clearly hides all distractions from blogs and articles, allowing you to read in peace.
How it works
Click on Clearly whenever you visit a blog post or article. Clearly slides in, showing an alternate view of the page without navigation, ads, or links to other content. When you’re done reading, click on the return arrow and Clearly slides out of the way, so you can continue browsing the site.
Multi-page articles
If you launch Clearly on a multi-page article, it will automatically turn it into a single page. No more clicking from one page to the next.
Save it for later
You don’t always have time to read everything in the moment. That’s why we built a web clipper right into Clearly. Click on the Evernote icon in the side bar, and the page will be saved into your Evernote account. You can even set tags to go along with all of your Clearly clips.
The auto-tag feature is a great way to easily create reading lists in Evernote that are accessible from any computer, phone or tablet you use.
Make it yours
Clearly offers three beautiful theme options:
- Newsprint: Like reading a newspaper
- Notable: Clean modern look
- Nightowl: Dark background, perfect for nighttime reading
Not a fan of the presets? You can make your own. Go into the extension preferences and create a custom theme. You can customize just about everything in Clearly from fonts to colors to alignments.
You can also customize keyboard shortcuts to launch Clearly and clip to Evernote.
All inside your browser
Clearly does all of its processing magic right inside the browser. It never sends any content to Evernote, or anywhere else, until you choose do to so.
A great web clipping companion
With Clearly, you now have two Evernote buttons for your browser bar. Our Web Clipper will help you capture anything you see online and Clearly will give you a clean reading experience. We hope you like it. We plan on bringing Clearly to more platforms and more languages soon. Let us know what you think.
171 Comments
Jef
Hi Evernote! Congratulations for Clearly, which is very easy on the eyes and yet powerful.
Unfortunately, the plugin does not work well at all with multipage articles. Is a fix coming?
For instance, Anandtech.com multipage articles only get the first page previewed.
Thanks!
Charlie
Ace extension – please add options to select workbook and tags on the fly, when you clip (like “clip to Evernote”). Thx.
macfixer
Would love Clearly for Safari 5!
Hugo
Yes, it´s even better than Reader (for Safari)
Tevya
It would be super nice, if when you clicked the clip button, you could at very least select the notebook you wanted it saved to.
Goran H
Ohh yeah. This is extremly important. Please add.
Thommango
Nice. I really like this. Would I pay for it? Maybe a buck or two, once.
Philipv
Great job Evernote. Can’t wait for the Firefox version!
Gary
Eagerly looking forward to availability on Internet Explorer. This is a Godsend for us with ADHD.
Dave
Just getting to know Clearly and it’s great, though it appears to share a problem I’ve noticed with Readability: when clipping from news articles, it frequently omits the author’s name and date.
Also, when I clip an article to Evernote Web, the Custom Theme settings are ignored and the online note is formatted in boring old Times New Roman!
Is it likely that either of these problems will be rectified?
Finally, are there any instructions on the use of Custom CSS in the Custom Theme?
Kind regards,
Dave
Dori
I love Evernote and can’t wait for Clearly for Firefox.
Nikhil
I love Clearly, I think it’s beautiful, but I would be even more delighted if it allowed me to tag and (especially) highlight text. Keep up the great work, but highlighting is major for me. Thanks!
Ray H Smith
Thanks, my mind is cluttered sufficiently with information overload; so it is most beneficial to be able to read the article of interest, rather than being bombarded with unrequested advertising information.
Leonardo
Well, make this app work on http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/18/2571255/starcraft-changed-my-life for example and you’ll overcome Safari’s Reader, the original attempt to make reading clean, by Apple. But then, with a layout like that it would be a shame to use this sort of extension
I liked what you did. Congratulations
Ignacio
Make this for Opera!!!! There isn’t any good extension like this on opera!
Shane
I noticed the confirm installation warning listed the following things Clearly can access: Your data on all websites, Your tabs and browsing activity, and Your list of installed apps extensions and themes.
That is a little bit concerning. Can someone from Evernote shed some light on the extent of access from this app?
Thanks!
Privacy Please
“…the confirm installation warning listed the following things Clearly can access: Your data on all websites, Your tabs and browsing activity, and Your list of installed apps extensions and themes….Can someone from Evernote shed some light on the extent of access from this app?”
This concerns me too. It is too ‘google-ish’ for me. It sounds like a useful application, but I’m not willing to give up privacy in order to use it.
Aerendir
Great extension. But i think it should be better if the page is in evidence. One example, as you tell, is more than 1000 words. So check this extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ppelffpjgkifjfgnbaaldcehkpajlmbc
It creates a page on the screen that is less weary than a full monocrome page with a single column.
My 2 cent, hoping so you’ll can improve your apps!
I love Evernote!
Derek
I would love this kind of view for Evernote on all platforms. I use Instapaper, but it seems that Evernote could easily perform this kind of display with the App (I use Mac) and mobile app (iphone/ipad). A simple reading version where I could scroll through notes like a book.
Rob
Great extension!
Will there be a possibility in the future to send an article to Kindle (like Readability can)?
Keep up the good work!
Amanda
I’ve tried all of the other extensions that strip out formatting, and this is the best tool yet for saving recipes to Evernote. They come out looking uncluttered and I don’t have to manually delete extraneous text from the note. Nice work!
andre luiz
Gostaria de saber se nao a uma versao em portugues. obrigado
CharlieB
Nice!!!! Please don’t forget Opera users, Thank You! Good App!!
Antonio
It is currently out of google chrome store. Something wrong on the extension?
keith bohanna
I am getting “Item not found. This item may have been removed by its author.” when I click on the Get Evernote Clearly from the Chrome Store Link. A search of the store finds nothing.
Is it me or……?
keith
Kasey Fleisher Hickey
We’re working on it!
pheski
Seems to have gone missing from the Chrome Extensions store?
Andrew Sinkov
We’re looking into it. Hope to have it back up very shortly.
Rich Tatum
It seems to fail on multipage articles at: ChristianityToday.com.
For example, I was just reading this: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/decemberweb-only/christopher-hitchens-obituary.html
Rich
Hizkiyah
I believe it works now. I’m viewing multi-pages from Ars Technica and its working via Evernote Clearly
Nacho
pleaseee make this for Opera! Web clipper is no good!! pleaseeee
Monique
I use Evernote with Firefox… when a version of Clearly for this browser?
Andrew Sinkov
Clearly for Firefox is now available: http://blog.evernote.com/2011/12/21/evernote-clearly-arrives-on-firefox/
peter d
Can’t download Clearly with Windows XP. Will it ever be available for us? I am a senior citizen and need more help
than Readability.
Cesar
Please make this for Safari 5!
Hizkiyah
Seconded for Safari 5!
Karina
AHhh every pmgrramreos first love.. basic I remember when I tried to be hardcore and learn assembly because all my friends learned basic after I showed them a few of my incredibly retarded “games.”
Tim
Really need to get Clearly released for Safari 5 users. Thanks.