Reader Tools
Highlights, notes, reading ruler, focus mode, reading list, reading settings, download, citations, notes page, and reader panel.
Reader tools overview
A summary of the reader-experience features that ship with Project Broadsheet by default. These are the tools that accompany every article without configuration.
Highlights and notes
Six-color highlighting plus rich-text notes, stored locally in the reader's browser. No accounts, no sync servers, no data leaves the device.
Display settings
Typography, theme, line width, word spacing, background presets, paragraph numbering, auto-scroll, and the reading ruler — all consolidated into a single panel. Everything persists in localStorage.
Customize the font picker
The reader-facing font picker ships with nine web fonts plus the site default. This page explains how to add, remove, or reorder fonts, and how to change the default.
Reading list
Readers can save any article for later with a single click. The list persists locally in the browser, with no account, no sync server, and no data leaving the device.
Reading ruler
How the reading ruler works, how readers enable it, and how to customize its appearance in your publication's CSS.
Download and cite
Readers can export any article as plain text or Markdown, and generate a formatted citation in APA 7, MLA 9, or Chicago 17. Both features run entirely client-side.
Notes page
/notes/ aggregates every highlight and annotation a reader has made across all articles and library chapters into a single searchable, exportable page.
Reader panel
A persistent side panel on article and library pages with tabs for highlights, bookmarks, reading progress, related articles, and citations.
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