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Introducing Evernote Clearly: One Click for Distraction-Free Online Reading

Product updates | By Andrew Sinkov
 

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.

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  • 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!

  • http://www.shanegaherty.com 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.

  • http://www.ecommercers.net 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!!

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