I built a Chrome extension that puts your saved articles on your calendar

I built a Chrome extension that turns your read-later list into dedicated reading blocks on your calendar. Every

five articles you save, it books a 30-minute reading block on your Google calendar, links included. Let me show you how reading block works. Here I have a few pieces of long-form content open like this YouTube video. I'm interested,

but I don't have time to watch it now.

I'm going to click the reading block icon to save it. Let me do the same to this blog post, this X article, this article, and this product I want to try out later. So now that I have five

out later. So now that I have five articles saved, it will trigger the system to create an event on my Google calendar. Here it is, a reading block

calendar. Here it is, a reading block with every link to the content in the description. Now I have dedicated time

description. Now I have dedicated time to sit down and actually go through them one by one. When the block ends, I'll get a quick pop-up asking what I finished. Anything that I didn't finish

finished. Anything that I didn't finish gets rolled into the next batch, so nothing falls through the cracks. It

only picks slots that don't clash with my existing meetings. And if you right-click on the extension and go into settings, you can customize when you want to do your deep reading, like which days and what time. I picked weekdays

2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. You can also

2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. You can also customize the length of each calendar event, how many articles per block, etc. Here's the thinking behind it. Read

later usually means read never, but read Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. actually works

because it's a real time that you'll sit down and do it. When I save something, I'm really in the mood to read it. And

when I finally want to do deep work, my stuff is scattered everywhere and it's overwhelming. Reading block fixes that

overwhelming. Reading block fixes that mismatch. It attaches a time to the

mismatch. It attaches a time to the intention. You can use the same trick on

intention. You can use the same trick on your to-do list, too. It's open source on my GitHub. Download it, fork it, modify to fit your own workflow. No

account, no server, everything stays on your machine. Connecting it to Google

your machine. Connecting it to Google Calendar is one-time 5-minute setup.

Just a bit of clicking in Google Cloud Console with every step in the setup guide. Check out the link below.

guide. Check out the link below.