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- [Don] Hi, this is Don McAllister
and welcome to another ScreenCastsOnline weekly tip video.
This week, I'll be taking a look
at an extremely useful feature within Safari,
both on the Mac and iOS, and that's the Reading List.
So if we tap on the Reading List icon.
Now the Reading List is for web pages
that you don't want to keep permanently,
they're really for bookmarks, but
for webpages that you see, don't read
at the time but want to read later.
And it does a really nice job now
of synchronising these between all your different devices,
creates an offline copy so that
if you haven't got an internet connection,
you can still read the webpage at a later time.
Very straight-forward to use.
In fact, let me go ahead and I'll just pick one
of my Reading List.
So we'll pick on the chicken here
and then if I just go to Business here,
I'm just gonna find another article.
So let's say I've read that news
about the chicken and I want to read
about this, Drivers Avoid Pay-by-Phone Parking
Bays, Say the AA.
Haven't got time to read it now,
so what I will do is tap on the Share button
and this time, I will say Add to Reading List.
And over in my Reading List, I now have
this new article, again synchronised with
all my devices, so whether I'm on my iPhone
or if I'm on my Mac, I can actually read this
and it will store an offline copy for me.
Now if I just want to see the unread items,
now I have had a look at the chicken,
so if I say Show Unread, the chicken should disappear,
yes it has done.
And then if I go ahead and, well let me just tap
on here as well, and now let's pretend
that I've read this.
You'll see that that has actually gone
from my Reading List now
because I've read it.
The items in your Reading List aren't
lost once you've read them.
You can get them back, if I just tap Show All
you can see now our chicken article down here
at the bottom has returned.
I can tap on here to read it.
Or if I want to mark it as unread, I can swipe across
so I can delete, or I can go ahead
and say Mark Unread.
Now if I Show Unread, it reappears back in the list.
And if I read it again, it's now removed
from the unread list.
Now obviously, I don't have to mark things
as unread, I could say Show All
and then open my Drivers Avoid Pay-by-Phone,
read that again, and then just Show Unread.
Now the Reading List has become so good now
that I'm actually starting to use
that more than things like Pocket, etc.
And you can get to the Reading List from the applications.
For instance, if I'm on say Facebook,
for example, if I go across to Facebook.
And it's a bit convoluted, but rather
than saving things in Facebook,
I like to save them in the Reading List.
If I just go to Facebook and if I look
at a trending article.
It's on the Guardian, so let's go over
to the Guardian website.
Now because this is Facebook's own browser,
I can't get to my Reading List from here,
but what I can do is tap on here,
tap on Open in Safari.
It takes me across to Safari,
then all I need to do is just hit
the Share button, say Add to Reading List,
and that's now stored for later,
again synced between all my devices.
One of the really nice features of using Reading List
on an iOS device is there is an automatic scroll feature
that allows you to mark it as read automatically.
So, if I'm actually reading this article,
as I scroll down and get towards the end.
Now this is quite a long article,
but as soon as you get down towards
the end, you'll see, here we go.
Up next, so far just flick up,
we get the next article in our Reading List.
Let's do that again.
Down to our Transfer News.
It is up next Transfer News, and there's
that article as well.
Okay, let's go and take a look
at the Reading List over on the Mac.
Now over on the Mac, I've opened up
the sidebar by tapping on the icon in the toolbar.
These are all my synced reading items in my Reading List.
I can view them if I drag down.
It's a little bit hidden, but I can see all
of my items or just the unread items
and then I can also swipe across
to remove them from here.
And I can select another item here
and then let me just close this popup.
As I scroll, it should take me to the next item.
Okay, there's the next item in my list.
If I want to add a new item, let's go
to this link here.
If I want to add this to my Reading List,
if I hover the URL bar, this little plus,
hit plus, and it will pop it into my Reading List for me.
Let me just do a quick search for iCloud.
Yup, there it is, that's the new item
that I've just copied over.
So as I say, a very very powerful way
of keeping a list of all the webpages
that you never seem to get around
to reading and read them offline if need be.