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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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  • Antonio

    It is currently out of google chrome store. Something wrong on the extension?

  • http://www.lifetimevalue.ie 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!

  • http://petereliasmd.com 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.

  • http://tatumweb.com/blog/ 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

  • http://blog.webatou.info/ Monique

    I use Evernote with Firefox… when a version of Clearly for this browser?

  • 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!

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003405400801 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.

  • Daniel

    Could someone tell me how to customize the page transformed? I want my clip a little bit wider.

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