Build a reading list that fills itself

There are two ways to maintain a reading list. The first requires you to remember to update it. The second doesn't.

Most people use the first: bookmarks, open tabs, links sent to yourself. The list exists in three places at once and completely in none of them.

Filed gives you the second. One keystroke anywhere on the web, and the article lands in your Notion database: title, author, publication, and the full text already extracted. You don't decide where it goes. You don't copy anything. You read when you're ready.

How the capture works

Press ⌘⇧Y on any article page. Filed extracts the content, fills in the metadata, and creates a new entry in your Articles database in Notion. A small confirmation appears at the corner of your screen. Click it to undo if you misfire.

Prefer the mouse? Right-click the page and choose "Save as Article." Same result.

This isn't a volume problem. A reading list that's hard to add to becomes a list of things you meant to read.

What lands in Notion

Every Article capture creates a page in your Articles database with the key fields already filled in:

Filed creates the Articles database the first time you connect your Notion workspace. No database to build, no properties to configure.

Domain rules

If you read from the same sources often, set a domain rule. Filed detects the site and selects the Article workflow without prompting. Navigate to the article, press ⌘⇧Y, done.

Domain rules are a Pro feature. The four built-in workflows, including Articles, are free.

Reading later versus reading now

Filed doesn't surface your reading list for you. It captures into Notion, and Notion does what it does. If you have a database view set up, your reading queue appears there. If you don't, the default view shows everything sorted by saved date.

The premise is that the harder problem is capture, not consumption. Getting an article into Notion takes one second. What you do with it from there is yours.