Reservoir on the web

1Save something

  1. Step 1: Click Add in the left rail. On a narrow window, open the menu at the top left first.
  2. Step 2: Under A link, paste the address and click Save link.
  3. Step 3: To write something instead, use Something you wrote and click Save note. For a file, use A photo or a PDF and click Upload (up to 15 MB).
  4. Step 4: Under Where it goes you can tick a collection, name a new one, or say why you’re keeping it. All of it is optional.
  5. Step 5: The page answers Saved, with the title as a link to it.

From anywhere in your library

  1. Step 1: Paste a link into the bar at the bottom, Search, ask, or paste a link.
  2. Step 2: Click Save this link above the bar.

2Find it again

  1. Step 1: Type in the bar at the bottom, Search, ask, or paste a link. Results appear as you type, from two letters.
  2. Step 2: Each result says where the match was found: the title, your note, in the article, or related.
  3. Step 3: Click a result to open it.
  4. Step 4: In Library, narrow what you see with All, Articles, Podcasts, Videos, Documents or Notes.

3Read, and highlight

  1. Step 1: Open a save from Library or from a search.
  2. Step 2: Select a passage and click Highlight, which appears beside your selection.
  3. Step 3: Click a highlight to add a comment to it, or to choose Remove highlight.
  4. Step 4: The icons above the text rename the save, add your note, open the original page, and delete the save.

4Organise

  1. Step 1: To make a collection, type its name in Or a new collection on the Add page as you save something into it.
  2. Step 2: To file a save you already have, open it and click the Add to a collection icon, pick a collection, and click Add.
  3. Step 3: Click a collection’s name in the left rail to open it. The arrow beside it shows its newest saves.

Not here yetChanging a collection afterwards, filing many saves at once, and the collections Reservoir suggests are on the iPhone. See this task on iPhone →

5Bring a library in

  1. Step 1: Click Add and go to A library from another app.
  2. Step 2: Choose your file: a Pocket export, a bookmarks file from any browser or Instapaper, or a Reservoir export. Tags and folders come with it.
  3. Step 3: Click Import.
  4. Step 4: Read the report: how many saves came in, how many you already had, and any rows that could not be read.

6Share a save

  1. Step 1: Open the save and click the Share this save icon. A link is made straight away.
  2. Step 2: Under General access, choose Anyone with the link, or Only people with their own link once you have added a person.
  3. Step 3: Click Copy link and send it however you like.
  4. Step 4: To take it back, open the same dialog and click Stop sharing. Every link to that save stops working.

What has been shared

  1. Step 1: Click Manage Share in the left rail.
  2. Step 2: Switch between Shared with you and Shared by you.

Not here yetSharing a whole collection is on the iPhone. See this task on iPhone →

7Recall, the digest and Listen

Recall

  1. Step 1: Turn it on once: click your name at the bottom of the left rail, then Cloud features, and under Recall click Turn on. It asks first because it sends saved text to a language model.
  2. Step 2: Click the Recall tab at the right edge of the window, or type a question in the bar at the bottom and click Ask your library.
  3. Step 3: Type your question and press Enter.
  4. Step 4: The answer lists what it was Taken from. Click a source to open the passage.

Not here yetThe weekly digest can be switched on here, under Cloud features, but is read on the iPhone. Listen is on the iPhone. See this task on iPhone →

8Your account, and getting help

  1. Step 1: Click your name or email at the bottom of the left rail to open Settings.
  2. Step 2: Account has your name, your password, Sign out and Delete account.
  3. Step 3: Your data has Export your library and the way to Trash, where a deleted save can be restored for 30 days.
  4. Step 4: About has Contact us. Click Write to us, say what happened, and click Send.

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