Your Library

Everything you save lands in your library. This chapter covers how the library looks, how to sort and filter it, what a link's details hold, and every action you can take on a link, from starring it to deleting it.

Rows and Grid

The library shows your links one of three ways:

Each device remembers its own layout. A new install starts with Rows on iPhone and Grid on iPad and the Mac.

Where to change it: iPhone and iPad: the layout button in the library's toolbar, which lists Rows, Compact, and Grid. Mac: the Rows, Compact, and Grid switch in the toolbar. "Compact rows" in Appearance turns Compact on and off too.

The grid packs cards of different heights into tidy columns. More room gives more columns, and larger text gives fewer, wider ones. iPad: The grid has at most three columns, and the cards widen to fill. Mac: The grid has at most four columns, each about as wide as an iPad card, so a wide window gets wider cards rather than more of them.

Open Buttons

Every row and card has small round buttons to open a link straight away:

• Read Offline (a book), shown when there is an offline copy. For a video it is Watch Video (a play mark).
• Open Website (a compass), which opens the page in your browser.
• Up Next, which adds the link to your queue or takes it out. It fills in while the link is queued.

On a row they sit at the end of the byline, under the picture. On a card they sit along its foot, after the unread dot. Compact rows have none; use the row's swipe actions or menu.

iPhone and iPad: When Settings > Appearance > Tapping a link is set to Opens Reader, the first button is Show Details (an i in a circle) in place of Read Offline, since a tap already opens the link. See Appearance.

Unread and Other Marks

A small dot in the margin beside a link's title (or at the foot of a card) means it is unread. A thin red line along the bottom of a row or card shows how far you have read. A star means it is starred. A bell shows its next reminder time; on a card the star and bell sit in the top corner. A down arrow means it has an offline copy on this device. A highlighter shows how many highlights it has.

Where a reading time would be, a link you have started shows how far you got, such as "40% read", or "Finished".

Tags

A row shows its first tag, or, with no room for it, a tag mark and how many tags there are. Cards show no tags; a link's details list them all.

Grouping by Day

The library is grouped under headings that follow the sort, in Rows and in the Grid. With Newest Saved or Oldest Saved, the headings are Today, Yesterday, Earlier this week, and Earlier. Other sorts have their own groups, listed below. In the grid, each heading runs across the columns and its cards start again under it. Search results and Reminders keep their own order in the grid, with no headings.

Sorting

Choose Sort (the up and down arrows) in the library's toolbar, and pick an order. A checkmark shows the current one. Each device keeps its own.

A link with nothing to sort by, such as no offline copy for the reading orders, goes last. Search results stay in best-match order, Reminders stay in the order they come due, and Up Next stays in queue order, so those lists have no Sort button. Nearby keeps a sort of its own, Nearest at first.

Filtering

Which links show:

Where to find it: iPhone: the bar at the top of the Links tab. On iPad and the Mac, the sidebar: Links is All, and the others are under Library. With a keyboard, Command-1 is All Links, Command-2 Unread, Command-3 Starred, Command-4 Archived, and Command-7 Up Next.

To see the links with one tag, tap the tag in a link's details, or choose it in the sidebar. iPhone: A chip with the tag's name shows above the list; tap it to show all tags again.

When a filter, tag, or search is showing, the Add (+) menu has Save as Collection, under the filter's name. It makes a collection that keeps showing those links. See Organizing.

Keeping Up to Date

Pull the list down to sync with your nearby devices now. Mac: Library > Sync Now, or Command-R. A note says how it went, such as "Synced with Mac" or "No devices in reach" (see Sync Now and Restart Sync).

While Bindle syncs or saves pages for offline reading, a small note floats over the library, such as "Syncing with Mac" or "Saving 3 for offline". While pages are waiting to save, tap the note to see Downloads. See Offline and Storage.

A Link's Details

Tap a link to see everything about it.

iPhone and iPad: You can make a tap open the link instead: in Settings > Appearance, set Tapping a link to Opens Reader. Details are then the first button on each row and card, and Show Details is in the long-press menu. Mac: On the Mac, clicking a link selects it and shows its details, and double-clicking opens it.

• iPhone: Details slide in over the list. Back returns you to it.
• On iPad and the Mac, details open in an inspector beside the list, and the list keeps the link selected. Show Details and Hide Details are in the toolbar, and in View on the Mac (Control-Command-I). The inspector's own bar has Previous Link, Next Link, and Close Details (Esc).

Previous Link and Next Link (Option-Command-Up Arrow and Option-Command-Down Arrow) step through the list in the order it shows. iPhone: They are in the toolbar.

From top to bottom, details hold:

1. The picture, full width, with the title over it in serif, the site in small caps, and how long it takes and when you saved it ("16 min read · Saved yesterday"). Tap the picture to open the link. Tap the title to change it.
2. A summary: a few lines from the article in italic, leaving out a note about the page itself such as "redirects here".
3. The address, with a button to copy it, and Cleaned when Bindle tidied the address (tap it to see what changed; see Saving Links).
4. Why it's dead, for a link in Dead Links, with Wayback, Check Again, and Not Dead (see Dead Links).
5. Two big buttons: Read Offline and Listen, or Read Offline and Open Website when the copy can't be read aloud. With no offline copy yet, they are Open Website and Save Offline (Saving... while it saves).
6. A row of actions, each a symbol over its name: Website (or Listen), Up Next, Star, Archive, Remind, and More. Filled symbols show the state: a filled star for a starred link, and so on. More holds Mark as Read or Mark as Unread, Share, Open Website, Copy Link, Share Nearby, Ask, Send To, Add to Collection, Up Next, the offline and snapshot actions, Refresh, and Delete.
7. A sign-in offer, when the saved copy may be only a preview of a page that needs an account. See Offline and Storage.
8. Note: tap "Add a note" and type. It saves as you go.
9. Summary, a few lines about the article written on your device, where Apple Intelligence runs and summaries are on. See Search and Ask.
10. Highlights you made while reading. See Highlights and Notes.
11. Tags, as chips. Tap one to see every link with it. Tap its x to remove it. Choose Add Tag to type a new one, with suggestions from tags you already use. Suggested tags from Apple Intelligence show here too: tap one to add it.
12. Places, which put the link in Nearby. See Places and Nearby.
13. Colophon: the reading time and word count, how far you have read, the offline copy and its size, the page snapshot, any reminders, the collections it is in (tap one to open it), when it was saved, and which device saved it, each joined to its value by a dotted line. Once you have paired devices, Sync says whether the link is on all your devices yet: "On all devices" or "Not yet on all devices".
14. Related links: More from the same site, and Also tagged, links that share a tag, numbered. Tap one to see its details.

Everything You Can Do With a Link

The same actions appear in a link's details, its context menu, its swipe actions, the reader, and keyboard shortcuts, always with the same names. Toggles name what they will do: a starred link offers Unstar.

Send To shows only while one of your devices is in range. Listen shows for links that can be read aloud.

Swipe Actions

iPhone and iPad: Swipe a row to act on it without opening it.

A full swipe does the first action. So a full swipe to the right marks a link read or unread, and a full swipe to the left deletes it, with Undo. For a dead link, Archive and Website give way to Not Dead and Wayback. In the Up Next list, a full swipe to the left takes the link out of the queue instead of deleting it.

Menus and Hover

Context menu. iPhone and iPad: Touch and hold a row or card. Mac: Right-click it, or Control-click.

iPhone and iPad: The menu starts with a row of icons: Mark as Read, Star, Archive, and Share. Then Read Offline, Listen, Open Website, and Show Details; a row with Queue Next and Queue Last (or Remove from Up Next); Remind Me; Add to Collection; Send To; and More, which holds the dead-link actions, the offline and snapshot actions, Copy Link, and Share Nearby. Delete is last.

Mac: The menu lists everything in one column, with Star and Archive near the end and Delete last.

Hover. With a pointer, on the Mac or an iPad with a trackpad or mouse, hovering over a card shows Star, Mark as Read, and Archive as small buttons in its corner.

On the Mac, clicking a link selects it and shows its details in the inspector. Double-click it to open it: in the reader, which fetches an offline copy if there isn't one yet, or in your browser when the page can't be saved.

Drag a Link Out

Drag a row or card into another app, such as Safari, Notes, or Mail, to drop its link there. In the Up Next list a drag changes the order instead. See Saving Links for dragging links in.

Keys in the List

With a keyboard, the list and details answer to single keys:

iPhone: With a keyboard, the link J and K move to is highlighted. On iPad and the Mac the selection moves instead. See Keyboard Shortcuts for the rest.

Archive and Delete, With Undo

Archiving is something you can see. An archive box pops up, its lid hops off, the link is tossed in, the lid goes back on, and the box drops away. Then "Archived" with Undo shows for a few seconds. Undo plays it all in reverse and puts the link back in its place. From details or the reader, the page closes first and the box plays over the list. Unarchiving is a plain toggle.

Deleting is just as clear. A wire wastebasket pops up, the link crumples into it, and "Deleted" with Undo shows for a few seconds. Deleting several dead links at once sends them in together, as "Deleted 3 Links".

Some things to know about deleting:

• Delete removes the link from all your devices, with its notes, tags, highlights, and reminders.
• Undo works until the note goes away, or until you delete something else. Only the latest delete can be undone.
• From details, Bindle asks first: "Delete this link on all devices?". From swipes and menus it asks nothing, because Undo is right there.
• With Reduce Motion on, there is no box or basket. You still get the note, Undo, and a tap you can feel.

Notes When Something Finishes

When something you started takes a moment, a short note at the bottom of the window says how it ended, such as "Snapshot saved", "Sent to Mac", or "Title and preview refreshed".

• A check mark means it worked. A circle means nothing went wrong but nothing happened either. A triangle means it failed, with the reason in a second line.
• A note shows for about 3 seconds, or 4 when it has a button such as View. Choose the note to run its button, or to put it away.
• When several things finish together, their notes show one after another.
• Notes also show over the reader. With the hidden theme's reader on, you feel the tap and VoiceOver reads the note, but no note is drawn.
• With VoiceOver on, Bindle reads each note aloud and leaves it up for 12 seconds.
• An "Archived" or "Deleted" note with Undo comes first; other notes wait for it.

While something you started is still working, such as checking links, reading a file to import, or adding books, the small capsule at the bottom says so: "Checking 3 of 12 links". It shows only when the work takes more than a moment.

Dead Links

Pages disappear. Bindle checks your links now and then, and when a page is gone for good, the link moves into Dead Links, a list of its own.

Where to find it: iPhone: the Collections tab. On iPad and the Mac, the sidebar under Library, or Library > Dead Links (Command-6). It shows only while there are dead links.

A link counts as dead only when its page is truly gone: "Not found (404)", "Gone (410)", "No such host", or a certificate problem, found twice, at least 20 hours apart. A slow or busy server, a sign-in page, or a paywall never makes a link dead. In every list, a dead link shows the reason in place of its excerpt, with the date it was found, or "Found dead on another device".

For each dead link you can:

• Read Offline, if you saved a copy before the page died.
• Open in Wayback Machine, to find an old copy at the Internet Archive. Bindle opens it only when you ask.
• Check Again, to check now.
• Not Dead, to take it out of Dead Links. Bindle stops checking it automatically.

The Dead Links menu in the toolbar has Check All Again, and Delete All Dead Links, which asks first.

While links are checked, the capsule at the bottom counts them. Then a note says how it went: "The link works again", "Still unreachable" with the reason, or for many, "3 work again, 5 still unreachable". "Couldn't tell" means the site was slow or you were offline, so nothing changed; try again later.

Checks are quiet and light. Your devices split the work between them, a device on power does more, and checks follow your offline network settings (cellular only if you allow it, never in Low Data Mode or Low Power Mode). The verdict syncs, so every device shows the same list.

Duplicates Merge on Their Own

Each page is one link. If you saved the same page on two devices before they met, or saved a short link that turns out to lead to a page you already have, Bindle merges them into one link when it finds out, on every device alike. The merged link keeps the oldest one's address, the newest title and note, all the tags, and every highlight and reminder. There is nothing to confirm.

Last Opened

The Last Opened button (a book with pages) in the library's toolbar opens the link you opened most recently, on any of your devices: in the reader at your place, or in your browser when there is no offline copy. Mac: Library > Last Opened.

When an offer to continue reading goes away, it flies into this button, so you know where to find it again. See Reading.

More Than One Window

Mac: File > New Window (Option-Command-N) opens another library window. Each window has its own list, filter, selection, and details, so you can keep Unread in one and a collection in another.

Tilting Pictures

iPhone and iPad: Pictures in the grid can shift as you tilt your device, as if you were looking through a window. Turn on "Tilt pictures as you move your phone" in Settings > Appearance. It is off at first.

It uses the motion sensor only while the grid is on screen, and pauses in Low Power Mode and when the phone is hot. With Reduce Motion on, it stays off.