Introduction to Littera


Reading List

Create one or more reading lists to keep web articles that you want to read on your iPhone or iPod touch. Customize Reading List with unique icon and setup the preference for caching by editing Reading List properties. You can even hide a Reading List from being displayed on the home screen.

Add Articles To Reading List

Add web articles into reading list with its name and url address. You can also use iPhone's system clipboard to paste the url address that you copy from other app such as Safari.

Star or Read Articles

Star an article to bring attention to it. Starred articles will appear under the "Starred" reading list on the home screen.

When you have finished reading an article, you can simply delete it from the reading list. Or mark the article as read by tapping on the checkmark icon.

Sort Articles In Reading List

Articles in a reading list can be sorted by name, site address, created date or read status. You can sort articles in ascending or descending order.

Search Articles In Reading List

You can search an article in a reading list by its name, and filter by its read/unread status.

Sync Reading List With Delicious

Setup to enable syncing of web articles in reading list with the bookmarks in your Delicious account. This is useful for managing your read-later or one-read articles. You simply bookmark the articles to your Delicious account on the desktop, and sync them back to Littera for reading on the move.

Each reading list you sync is tied to one Delicious tag. For example, you can create a reading list "Read Later" to sync with all Delicious bookmarks that are tagged with "readlater" tag. And you can have a separate reading list "Google Articles" that is synced with Delicious bookmarks with the tag "google".

RSS reader

Setup to use Littera as RSS reader. Add RSS subscriptions url address under the sync service setup of reading list properties. You can manually enter the url or select from a list of sample RSS feeds.

Harvest web links from Twitter

You can easily retrieve web articles from tweets. Specify to retrieve tweets from a Twitter username, tweets mentioning a user, a specific hashtag or using Twitter's search query string.

Reading History

Reading History database records your reading status whenever you mark an article as read. When you add the same article in future, Littera automatically marked it as read. This will save you time from reading the same article again.

Auto-Mark Read

When Auto-mark Read is switch on, Littera will automatically mark the web article as read after you start reading the article for few seconds. This is similar to marking open mail as read behavior in email clients such as Apple Mail and Microsoft Outlook.

Auto-Delete

With Auto-Delete, you can setup Littera to automatically delete articles based on article read status and/or created date. For example, you can setup to delete articles after you have read (articles read status checked) them for 3 days. Or you can setup to delete articles that is older than 7 days. Each reading list has its own Auto-Delete rules.

Enhanced Web Reader

Based on Apple Safari web browser technology, the enhanced web reader in Littera provides a better reading experience:

1. Full screen mode: read web articles without toolbar and navigation bar

2. Orientation lock: lock the screen orientation while reading

3. Text mode: filter off graphics while reading

4. Zoom: zoom in for larger text formatting