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How do I customize the sections in the left sidebar of the web app?
The sections in the left sidebar are just defaults and fully customizable, except for Home, Library, Feed, and Search (those are fixed). You can reorder the views by dragging and dropping, unpin the views from the sidebar by clicking the down caret at the top of the view, and pin new views from the Manage views page.
How do I customize the swipe actions in the Reader mobile app?
You can customize the swipe actions in the Reader mobile app by navigating to the Account tab in the bottom right and choosing Customize swipes.
Sometimes when I perform an action on a document such as Inboxing, Latering, or Archiving, it returns me to the document list rather than advancing to the next document. How do I perform an action and then advance to the next document?
By default, if you move a document while in its reading view, you'll be returned to previous document list. You can toggle this behavior to instead auto-advance by looking for "Toggle auto-advance" in the Command Palette on web or switching the setting in the Settings panel on mobile.
How do I find a list of keyboard shortcuts?
Reader on web is fully keyboard shortcut driven, including while reading documents. Most keyboard shortcuts are shown in hover tooltips in the user interface, but you can additionally open the Command Palette (Cmd/Ctrl + K) to reference shortcuts or use the ? shortcut to pull up a reference.
How can I customize the keyboard shortcuts?
You can edit the default keyboard shortcuts to your preference by navigating to Account settings > Preferences > Customize.
Some keyboard shortcuts are not working on my keyboard such as [ and ] to open or hide the side panels. How do I customize my keyboard shortcuts?
Some non-North American keyboard layouts (such as German, Swedish, Dutch, Norwegian, Catalonian, etc) may not be optimized for the default Reader shortcuts. You can customize these shortcuts to your preference by navigating to Account settings > Preferences > Customize.
How do I use keyboard shortcuts in the iPad app?
We haven't yet had an opportunity to optimize the iOS for iPad yet, but it's on our roadmap. In the meantime, if you use your iPad with a keyboard as a quasi-laptop, we recommed using Reader inside the browser web app (read.readwise.io) rather than the native app.
How do I dismiss the nudge to use the mobile app when using read.readwise.io in Safari on iPad?
Whenever you enable deeplinking into your iOS app, Apple will detect the link pattern in Safari and dropdown a header nudging you to use the native app rather than the web app. This is annoying and we've not yet found a way to disable this behavior, but we're working on it.
How do I change settings to keep the sidebars hidden at all times?
You can change the default sidebar setting upon entering the reading view by opening the Command Palette and searching for Hide side panels by default in reading view.
