The archive: everything you've read, always at hand

One of the things I wanted from the start was a record of what I'd actually read. Not for any particular reason, just the quiet reassurance that the articles you've worked through aren't gone. They're somewhere.

The archive is that somewhere.

What it is

Every article you advance past in the reader gets saved to your archive automatically. There's nothing to configure, nothing to enable. You press Next, the article moves to read, and it's in your archive with the timestamp of when you read it.

The archive shows your full reading history in reverse chronological order, newest first, infinite scroll. You can see today's reading, last week's, months ago.

Re-reading

Clicking any archive entry opens the full article in the same reader view you used the first time. The content is stored, so it works even if the original page has since been updated or removed.

This is useful for the "I'm sure I read something about this once" moments that are otherwise impossible to resolve. You remember approximately when you read it, you scroll back to around that time, and there it is.

What the archive isn't

It's not a to-do list and it's not a search index. There's no full-text search across your reading history, and there's no way to resurface things you've archived back into your reading queue. For saving things you want to keep, bookmarks and quotes, the Library is the right place. The archive is just the record of what you've read, in the order you read it.