Glob reader

Glob reader turns a readable web page into an article in a Glob panel. Use it when you want to follow the text, select a passage or keep a quote beside your other notes.

The reader is a readable copy of the article. It does not reproduce every part of the website. Interactive tools, sign-in screens and content the site loads separately may need the live page or a browser tab.

Open the reader#

There are several entry points, depending on the node's current view:

• Click a web node that opens as a readable article, or enter that node.
• Right-click a node in reader mode and choose Open reader.
• On a web node you own, choose Read in Glob reader under Website mode when that choice is offered.
• While inside a live page with readable text, choose Reader view beside the top bar's box.

Glob shows Making your readable copy… while it prepares the article. Reading uses your account's own copy, so sign in if the reader cannot load while you are visiting signed out.

Read in the panel#

The article can include its title, author, site and publication date when the source supplies them. Headings, paragraphs, lists, quotations, code, tables and pictures can appear in the reading view. Missing details do not get invented for the header.

Use Panel height in the reader's header to cycle through the small, half-height and full available panel sizes. Close closes the panel. Open the page opens the saved website address externally when that action is available.

Links within the article open outside the reader. You may see a Leaving Glob confirmation when following one; read the destination and choose whether to continue. See web page problems.

The Body and Wall controls switch between the article and its discussion. Closing the discussion does not change the article's website mode.

Keep a passage#

Select text in the article and release the pointer, or right-click the selection. The menu offers Take note, Save as node, Share to chat and Copy with source.

For example, select a paragraph explaining a technique and choose Take note. Glob saves a clip node and adds it to Listr so you can return to it. The clip carries its source information. Keep the selection within 2,500 characters.

Use notes and clips for the destinations, source card and editing behaviour. To send a passage to someone else, see sharing web references.

Return to the live page#

If you reached the reader with Reader view while inside a live web node, the switch changes to Back to the live page. Choose it to return. Closing that reader panel also brings the live page back.

This temporary switch is useful for clipping or following a Find on page result. It does not save a new opening preference. Use Website mode when you want your node to prefer the reader on later visits.

When an article cannot be made#

Reader unavailable for this page. Open the page instead means the page did not yield a readable article. A page behind sign-in, a paywall or a site that draws its text only after loading may not produce a reader view. Choose Open the page to use the website itself.

If a live page turns out to have no reader view, Glob returns to that page and says This page has no reader view. The reader switch then disappears for that page during the session.

Couldn't reach the page and Couldn't load the reader are loading failures. Check your connection and try again shortly. Too many pages at once means you should wait before opening more reader copies. None of these messages means that the original website has been removed.

The reader can reuse a copy it made earlier. To check the website's present content, open the original page. Refresh preview changes a preview picture, not the text of your reader copy.