I read books on Wechat

demand

I am an avid reader, and most of my reading is done on Wechat Reading. However, I have some needs that wechat reading cannot meet at present:

1. It is not easy to export reading notes in Markdown format.

I often make notes while reading. In many cases, my thoughts collide and I record a lot of good thoughts immediately. However, it is not easy to find the notes when WRITING articles or summarizing, and I cannot easily upload them to the PC for sorting.

2. Notes cannot be synchronized to the third-party note-taking software in real time.

I prefer to take notes with flying book documents. Recently, I also found that Flomo, a note-taking software based on notes, is also suitable for taking notes on books and books, and I can also check daily submissions and records just like GitHub. It is very hoped that wechat reading can support the configuration of the hook of marking and taking notes, so that you can generate notes in the third party in real time when reading.

3. Shared bookmark pictures are not beautiful enough.

At present, bookmarks generated by wechat reading only have one or two solid color backgrounds, which do not give me a particularly beautiful feeling. I hope I can have some pictures to express my current mood, especially those similar to poems. Of course, I would like to customize some text and comments for specific situations.

function

Based on the above requirement analysis, the most ideal state is that both mobile phone (Android /iOS) end and PC end can achieve the above requirements. Android correct in the survey, feel not quite good to achieve, need to seek big boss to consult. But in THE PC side, based on Chrome plug-in to achieve, the function is no problem.

After a weekend of development and a review in the Chrome Store, the beta is now available just in time for Chinese New Year. It is a small gift for myself and friends who like reading, and I hope friends who love reading can experience it together.

Has supported

1. Immersive plug-in experience, fully integrated with wechat reading UI, except that there is a menu button on the side and a bookmark button when marking.

2. Export the lines and notes of the book with one click.

3. After filling in the FLOMO API, the underline will be automatically synchronized to flOMO and classified according to the title of the book.

Flomo:flomoapp.com/register2/?…

4. One key to generate picture bookmarks, bookmarks can be edited and downloaded.

5. The picture in the text support to display the right menu, you can copy the URL and picture, use other plug-ins, etc.

6. Modify the background theme and the background paper material.

7. Go to the Chrome App Store.

Plans to support

  1. The Markdown format is configurable.
  2. Border-code: python; border-code: python; border-code: python; border-code: python; border-code: python
  3. Comment notes can be synchronized with third parties and bookmarks can be generated.
  4. Supports font modification.
  5. Support eye color. (Checked some information, still not sure whether the eye color is really useful, hope to understand the friend give advice)

The installation

To install the plugin, search for “I Read on wechat” in the Chrome App Store

If you cannot access Google, you can download and install it manually by visiting the official website.

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The iteration

Before I started coding, I searched for similar browser plugins, but they didn’t quite meet my needs. There were two things that made me decide to do it myself:

  1. I like reading books, so I should be able to keep doing this.
  2. I can do it better than anyone else. (Read a point of view before, not every requirement needs innovation, more often, just do better than others is enough)

Based on the above two factors, I will continue to iterate on this plug-in. I hope friends who like reading can actively raise demands for me, and reasonable demands will be supported.

The Spring Festival holiday is just around the corner, so you can take a day or two to iterate again.

The last

Set up a simple official website, and then slowly improve, experience the plug-in friends, if you feel good, you can help to point a five-star praise in the app store, just put on the plug-in needs some popularity ha ha ha, thank you ~

Want to follow up the follow-up friends can also pay attention to my public account “Xichang push”, the dynamic will be synchronized above. The official website is hosted on the 2-core 4G 74/year Tencent cloud server.

Wish everyone a happy Spring Festival in advance ~