# Getting Started with Omnivore

Omnivore is a **read-it-later app** that lets you save and organize everything you read online.

This guide will show you how to use Omnivore’s basic functions and advanced features, divided into four main activities:

- Saving
- Reading
- Organizing
- Integrations

The **Library** is the center of your Omnivore experience, where you can quickly access any links you have saved. Saved links remain in your Library forever unless you delete them.

## Saving

There are five main ways to save links to pages or articles that you wish to read later:

- Saving from Your Omnivore Library
- Saving from a Browser
- Saving from a Phone or Tablet (iOS or Android)
- Newsletter Subscriptions via Email
- Saving PDFs from a Mac

### Saving from Your Omnivore Library

1. In the upper right corner of your Library, tap the **Add Link** button.
2. Enter the URL you wish to save and tap **Add Link**.
3. The link will appear in your Library the next time you refresh it.

### Saving from a Browser

1. Download and install the Omnivore extension for your browser:

- [Chrome ](https://omnivore.app/install/chrome)
- [Edge](https://omnivore.app/install/edge)
- [Firefox](https://omnivore.app/install/firefox)
- [Safari](https://omnivore.app/install/safari)

2. Navigate to the page you wish to save and tap the Omnivore button in your browser’s toolbar or Extensions menu.
3. Alternatively, you can right-click (command+click on Mac) on any hyperlink and select **Save to Omnivore** from the menu.
4. The link will appear in your Library the next time you refresh it.

### Saving from a Phone or Tablet

The best way to save links from your mobile device is via the Omnivore app. You can download the app here:

- [iOS (iPhone or iPad)](https://omnivore.app/install/ios)
- Android

Once the mobile app is installed:

1. In your browser, navigate to the page you wish to save and tap the **Share** button.
2. Tap the **Omnivore** icon in the Share menu.
3. The link will appear in your Library the next time you refresh it.

### Newsletter Subscriptions via Email

1. On the Omnivore website or app, tap your photo, initial, or avatar in the top right corner to access the profile menu. Select **Emails** from the menu.
2. Tap **Create a New Email Address** to add a new email address (ex: username-123_abc@inbox.omnivore.app) to the list.
3. Click the Copy icon next to the email address.
4. Navigate to the signup page for the newsletter you wish to subscribe to. \
5. Paste the Omnivore email address into the signup form.
6. New newsletters will be automatically delivered to your Omnivore inbox.

### Saving PDFs from a Mac

1. Install the [Mac App](https://omnivore.app/install/mac).
2. On your Mac, locate the PDF you wish to save and right-click or ctrl+click on the file name.
3. Select **Share** from the menu and choose **Omnivore**.
4. The link will appear in your Library the next time you refresh it.

## Reading

Click any link saved in your Library to enter the Reader view.

Omnivore formats pages for easy reading and highlighting, removing ads and clutter for distraction-free reading. The text-focused view also makes articles smaller and quicker to load.

While reading, you can:

- <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Change Formatting</span>
- <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Highlight Text</span>
- <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Add Notes</span>
- <span style="text-decoration:underline;">View All Saved Highlights and Notes</span>
- <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Track Reading Progress</span>

### Change Formatting

1. **_Theme:_** Tap your photo, initial, or avatar in the top right corner to access the profile menu. Select the white or black thumbnail to choose the Light or Dark theme.
2. **_Text Formatting:_** Tap the Aa icon to adjust the text size, font, margins, and line spacing.

### Highlight Text

1. Select the text you wish to highlight.
2. Tap the **Highlight **button.
3. The text will appear highlighted next time you view the article.

### Add Notes

1. Highlight a section of text where you wish to add a note.
2. Tap the **Note** button, type your note, and tap **Save**.
3. The Note icon will appear next time you view this article.

### View All Saved Highlights and Notes

1. Tap the Highlight/Note icon to see a list of all the highlighted text and notes you have added to this page.
2. To remove a note or highlight, select it from the list and tap the Trash icon.

### Track Reading Progress

Omnivore automatically keeps track of your reading progress across your different devices so you can easily pick up where you left off. A progress bar will appear at the top of each link in your Library after you have started reading.

## Organizing

By default, the Library inbox displays all links you have saved. To manage your list and keep your reading organized, Omnivore provides the following actions:

- <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Archiving</span>
- <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Labels</span>
- <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Search</span>
- <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Filters</span>

### Archiving

1. Tap the Menu icon next to the link you wish to archive (on the mobile app, long press the link to open the menu).
2. Select **Archive**.
3. The link will disappear from the default Library view, but will show up if you select the Archived filter (see <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Filters </span>below).

### Labels

1. Tap the Menu icon next to any link and select **Set Label**s.
2. Select an existing label from the list or tap **Edit Labels** to create a new one.
3. The label will appear next to the link in your Library. Tap it to view all links with the same label.
4. _Omnivore mobile app only_: tap **Labels **to see a complete list of all labels you have used; tap one to view all links with the same label
5. Note: Omnivore will automatically assign some labels, such as “Newsletters.”

### Search

1. To search through all your saved links, enter a keyword or phrase in the search bar.
2. You can combine keywords with labels and filters to focus your search even further. [Learn more about advanced search](https://docs.omnivore.app/using/search.html).

### Filters

1. Use the **Filters **menu to refine your Library view (some filters may be visible by default).
2. Select **Read Later** to view a list of all your non-archived links except Newsletters.
3. Select **Highlights** to view the text selections you have highlighted in all your saved pages.
4. Select **Today** to view a list of links you saved today.
5. Select **Newsletters** to view links saved via your newsletter subscriptions.

## Integrations

Omnivore allows integrations with knowledge bases and note-taking apps including:

- Logseq
- Webhooks

### Logseq

With Omnivore's Logseq plugin you can sync all your saved articles, highlights, and notes into Logseq, a popular knowledge base. For information on setting up and using the Logseq plugin, please refer to this helpful [Omnivore for Logseq Plugin Guide](https://briansunter.com/graph/#/page/omnivore-logseq-guide).

### Webhooks

Omnivore can trigger webhooks when you save a link or add highlights to a page you are reading. <span style="text-decoration:underline;">This example</span> shows webhooks being used to write all saved links to a Google Sheets spreadsheet stored on a Google Drive.