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
Jared Pratt
LOVE IT!!!! I used it yesterday to re-clip a couple web pages that were very unfriendly in Evernote. Much better now!
Arvid
Would love to have the option of setting a specific “notebook” for Clearly which is different from Clippy.
Dennis Dinh
Great experience, I have been using it since last week
Chad Simpson
This is lovely! With teachers finding so many uses for Evernote, the Clearly extension makes a great addition. Sharing an article with your class later? There’s no reason to include your google ads from the sidebars. Students doing collaborative online research? This really clears up the resources they’ll document and work from. Great work on this!
Ninad Avasare
I joined evernote today only. First I was not sure about how to use evernote. But when I visited blog I find out many functionalities of evernote. Evernote’s clear tool seems amazing and something which I stumbled across for the first time. With the help of clipping we can remove unwanted part from the webpages.It just amazing.
Gideon
Wow!…I have always wondered if there wasnt a way of reducing the distractions that one cannot avoid when trying to read online. Thanks !
Gideon
Alexander
Don’t understand all the happiness about Clearly. Doesn’t work even slightly as good as competitors, such as Instapaper. The only advantage is: it works with Evernote. The idea is great, the app looks fine. But it simply doesn’t work and it will never. I’ll show you why.
The first time I tried Cleary it didn’t work at all. The whole content was cut off, instead it showed just the footage and the comments. This is a typical malfunction of extensions like this. You will never get it to work on every single website. But that’s what it is supposed to do: it should work. Nobody needs an extension that works 50% of the time.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but there seems to be no possibility to influence how the extension decides what is content and what is not. It would be so easy if you could just highlight the text and the extension would simply make this part more readable. But no, you think your algorithms will do it right. Instead, the extension even crashes if you try this on highlighted text. You don’t need to create magic, just a working extension.
Saurabh
Awesome app. Waiting for Firefox add-on for the same to be released.
Anon
If you add the ability to change the size of the margins and an autoscroll feature, it would be perfect.
Also, needs a firefox add-on ASAP
Etienne
Any ETA for the firefox add-on?
Thanks
Tom
Great, looking forward to the Firefox version.
Łukasz P
This is so… so great.
Don C
Please don’t add the kitchen sink, there are already apps to wash hands with. KISS!
Evernote, I LOVE YOU just the way you are
JackieD
Fantastic. Can’t wait for FF version (soon please).
Lars Tackmann
Nifty new feature, if you could integrate it with twitter, just like Instapaper’s “Read later” then it would be insanely great.
Travis Weaver
Love it. What would be great is you could add an option to clip with the same easy-to-read formatting that appears in clearly.
Daniel
Awesome! Been using now for a couple of days and recommended it to friends
Anthony DiSAnti
You guys should toss another link to the Chrome Web Store at the end of the article (always close with the CTA!). I had to go searching back through the article.
Lisbeth
every update just makes evernote better and better! Keep up the great work!
Denbo
Saved clippings lose their format. Meh… I love the regular Evernote Chrome extension. It is more customizable for me.
john
I want clearly, but it only works with chrome, which does NOT RUN on android phones.
jeremiah
Is there a way to do this on the android systems… more specifically tablets
Somit
This looks Awesome ! Waiting for Firefox add-on…
Junjie
Evernote is a excellent note softwares, I have been had him for 2 years, hope it much better!
Alexander
Looks very nice and worked well on the first test pages. Would love to have an option to view the text in more than one column!
runa
i love you, evernote!
Raebo
Now could you do something about the commercials on my TV?
or at least the higher volume they are run at ?
Evernote “clearly” rocks.
Everyone gets a hug.
Thanks.
Alida
Safari!!
Paul
Has worked well so far, any chance of a right click option like “Open Link in New Clearly Tab”
Germán
I would have loved to try this extension IF it didn’t require me to give it access to:
-My data on all websites
-My tabs and browsing activity
-My list of installed apps, extensions and themes
That is outrageous. Why would I want to install spyware?
Steph W
This is exactly why I won’t be using it. I’m already tired of so many of my Android apps requiring access to my personal data which shouldn’t be necessary for the running of the app.
Mulyadi Oey
This is very similar to the Reader feature on iPad’s Safari… which I love! Thanks for keep improving Evernote; love it more everyday.
David Barnes
I had bad luck with the first page I tried. It turned this:
http://grab.by/bknD (article with lots of distractions)
Into this:
http://grab.by/bknE (nothing at all to distract me from the sponsored links — even the article was gone!)
Mhrdad
I can take notes during a meeting on my iPhone and know that they will be ready to go on my laptop the next day when I open the app on my laptop. Those notes can then be easily emailed right from the app without having to open any other email application. Easy, quick and thorough best describe Evernote.
Gorka
Guys, this add on is amazing!
PeterB
First time I tested the new Clearly extension for Chrome, it looked great on screen for the item tested – just as I would have liked it to be, hiding all the html side clutter, headers and footers – but when I tried the print command, only the text printed. All the images were reduced to just little title boxes only.
If I tried the Chrome print tool, the preview showed a single page only, with the multi-page text overlayed on top of the first page info, with no images at all. Just unreadable.
That’s a real pity, as keeping the full ‘clean’ pages as print or .pdf copies would be of huge benefit.
So, while this is nice step forward, hopefully further updates will prove to be even better. But congratulations for this first step, nevertheless.
Lisa Fulkerson
Hi
Love it but the new stuff isnt going to make my screen shrink is it?
Also because I work in medcine my phone shuts off every now and then cause some ones trying to get files or locations from my phone to run there program . And the place I work for dont like that and cuts me off. Do you have something in your program for that?
Thank you for takeing the time to read this I know thousands of people with this problim who would like to use everynote but strugle with this.
Lisa Fulkerson
Kenneth
I was excited about Clearly until I looked at the permissions. It can read every page that I visit; web email, Facebook, and even the bank. This level could also use your credentials (cookies) to request or modify your data from websites. Yikes.
edge
It would be nice to have a (possibly customizable) tag included when the page is clipped. Searching would be a breeze.
Joe
Would love to see this for Android Tablets
FredPlush
Simply brilliant!
Terry
Very cool functionality. But I don’t use Chrome. I would love to see this capability in the Safari plug-in. Thanks for all the work. Love Evernote!
Adonna
When you consume alot of blog content, like I do, having a tool like this will be a Godsend. Surfing distraction is probably the numbrer one time and productivity killer. The question is… what will I ever do with all of those reclaimed work hours?!
Thanks for creating such a thoughtful product.
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Erick
Please port this to mobile devices like Android/iOS phones & tablets!
mimi mcmahon
I don’t think I have google chrome–I use safari and firefox–will this work for me?
Kasey Fleisher Hickey
Right now, Clearly is only available for Chrome.
hussain
i impressed
hussain
with hope and love
Elisabeth Robson
LOVE IT!!! Cannot wait until it comes to Safari. THANK YOU!
Louis Brown
Not so fast! The Chrome website where “Clearly” is downloaded clearly states that:
“This extension can access:
Your data on all websites
Your tabs and browsing activity
Your list of installed apps, extensions, and themes”
If you are o.k. with that kind of intrusion, then go ahead and download Clearly. I won’t. P.S. Nothing is ever really “free”.
John M
Absolutely love it! Excellent idea! Very innovative, yet exquisitely simple… Perfect!
Thanks guys!
Dave
Will this be coming to Safari?
Michael
You guys have done it again… love the feature!!! Now if we could just clip from clearly once we had things the way we wanted it it would be great.
Ken
Fabulous. Gives my tired eyes a rest from all the Flash and other distractions. Doesn’t work on all pages but so far I highly recommend it. Is there a way to make clearly the default or to access it without having to mouse up to the button?