A Chrome extension that captures the current tab into a personal, private, RSS-backed reading history. No accounts. No inbox to babysit.
See how it works Load-unpacked today · Chrome Web Store soonPress ⌘⇧L for a silent save, or click the toolbar icon for a glass popup that shows what you're keeping.
The page's URL, title, and a clean Markdown copy of the article go to a backend you own — your own serverless function and database. Duplicates and tracking junk are cleaned automatically.
Everything appears newest-first in a private RSS feed. Subscribe in the reader you already use — or open the popup's History button to search your saved pages by their contents, preview the archived article (diagrams included), download the Markdown, or delete what you no longer want.
Your reading history lives in your own backend, reached with your own tokens. The feed URL carries an unguessable read token. Nobody operates a shared server.
One keystroke saves the page without interrupting your reading. A quiet badge confirms it; a duplicate is a calm "already saved," not an error.
First-run setup is a backend URL and a write token. No sign-in, no sync service to manage.
It's a standard RSS 2.0 feed — newest-first, linking to the original pages — so it works in any RSS reader.
Each save keeps a clean Markdown copy of the page, so you can search your history by its contents — not just titles — and read the saved article (diagrams and all) in a built-in preview, even if the original moves or disappears.
Download your whole history any time — JSON, browser bookmarks, OPML, or a single page's Markdown. Nothing's locked in, and a backup is one click away.
There's no shared server — Linktrail is yours end to end. Deploy your own backend to Vercel in a few clicks: it clones the repo and adds a free Neon database — no secrets to type. Then open /api/setup once to generate your tokens, and point the extension at your new URL. The schema sets itself up on first use.