Read articles in distraction-free reader view

When you open a saved item, Keep displays its content in a clean, distraction-free reading view when full content is available. Articles are rendered as markdown with comfortable typography designed for long-form reading.

How it works

Click any item in your feed to open the reading view. Free accounts can still save links, titles, and metadata. Paid plans keep the original page content as markdown when it can be extracted, so you get the full article text without ads, popups, or navigation clutter.

Press Escape or click the back button to return to your feed.

Typography

The reading view uses the Inter typeface at a comfortable size with generous line height for easy scanning. Headings, lists, blockquotes, code blocks, tables, and images are all styled for readability.

What gets rendered

Headings -- h1 through h6, scaled for hierarchy.

Links -- open in a new tab by default.

Images -- lazy-loaded and scaled to fit.

Code blocks -- styled with a monospace font and scrollable overflow.

Tables -- full-width with borders and header styling.

Blockquotes, lists, and horizontal rules -- all rendered with clean spacing.

Highlights

Highlights show up as marked text in the article body. Click any highlight to open a small popover where you can edit the note attached to it or delete the highlight.

Highlight from the reader

Click the highlighter button in the reader toolbar (top-right, next to the font-size controls) to enter highlight mode. A pill appears at the top of the reader confirming the mode is on. While it is on:

  • Drag-select any text in the article. The selection turns the highlight colour as you drag, and on release the highlight is saved and rendered inline.
  • Hold Shift while you drag to capture the highlight and immediately open the note popover, so you can drop in a thought without an extra click.
  • Selections stay in mode after each capture, so you can keep highlighting through a long piece without re-clicking the button.
  • Press Escape or click the close button on the pill to exit highlight mode.

You can also still highlight from the original page using the browser extension -- whichever surface you create them on, highlights show up in the same reader view.

Highlights only view

A toolbar toggle lets you switch between the full article and a Highlights only view that hides paragraphs without any highlights, so you can scan your annotations on a long piece without scrolling through everything else.

Highlights are free on every plan.

AI summary

Paid plans get an AI-generated summary of each saved article. The summary appears as a collapsible card at the top of the reading view, so you can skim the key points before deciding to read the full piece.

Summaries are generated automatically when you save an article with enough content to summarize. They are also included at the top of the markdown download and the /api/items/:id/content response, under a ## Summary heading, so AI agents and scripts that pull your items get the TL;DR for free.

Markdown download

You can download any item's content as a .md file. Open the item menu and select download to save the markdown to your device.

The reading view header includes a link to the original source URL so you can always visit the live page if you need to.