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Use the whole system.
Keep the boundary clear.

Reader is the immutable automatic edition. Composer is the personal reading and repair layer. Research, Library and PDF keep their own source identities. These guides show how the pieces connect without pretending Ratdolt can inspect another tab.

Search the product, not a support maze

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23 guides

Product handbook

23 practical guides.

Each guide describes Ratdolt's browser-native boundary as it exists: what happens, where it happens and what remains deliberately local or consent-gated.

01 · Getting startedStart in Composer

Open a public article URL or a local or public PDF in the same browser-native Composer.

Read guide 02 · Getting startedSave a source now, compose it later

Keep a typed bookmark without fetching its origin or spending a publication credit.

Read guide 03 · Reader & ComposerRead the canonical edition

Use measured pages in Spread, Continuous, Grid or Focus, then keep the same clean edition as PDF or print.

Read guide 04 · Reader & ComposerPersonalize a reading in Composer

Change theme, typography, measure, figures and source details as a reversible private view.

Read guide 05 · Reader & ComposerCorrect, format or remove recovered content

Use editable overlays and the deletion tool while preserving Reader as source truth.

Read guide 06 · Reader & ComposerUse reading aids and browser speech

Configure the ruler, accessibility type, motion, narration voice, rate and pitch.

Read guide 07 · Reader & ComposerTranslate or act on selected text

Keep native selection while optionally using Ratdolt actions for reading, search, speech, translation and sharing.

Read guide 08 · ResearchHighlight web readings and PDFs

Use semantic colours, labels, notes and nested folders with global or folder-specific palettes.

Read guide 09 · ResearchWrite notes, tasks, papers and citations

Compose standalone research, insert attributed excerpts and generate five citation styles.

Read guide 10 · ResearchImport and export research

Move bounded Markdown, HTML, text, JSON, ENEX, Kindle, Word, email and provider artifacts deliberately.

Read guide 11 · LibraryFind everything in All Materials

Search and sort collections, readings, images, PDFs, notes and highlights from one private index.

Read guide 12 · LibraryOrganize bookmarks, files and research

Use nested collections, icons, shared tags, ordering, archive and reversible Trash.

Read guide 13 · LibraryPreview, preserve and revisit a source

Switch among inert preview, deliberate live web, permanent versions and source research.

Read guide 14 · PDF & offlineRead and annotate a private PDF

Open a device file or public PDF URL, then search, narrate and keep portable research against the exact file digest.

Read guide 15 · PDF & offlineKeep selected articles and PDFs offline

Use public cacheable shells while private pages, sessions and APIs remain outside the service worker.

Read guide 16 · SharingPublish a profile, collection or reading

Opt in each public object and let Reading Commons expose only the least-data projection.

Read guide 17 · SharingShare links, embeds and collaboration

Choose public, unlisted or invited access without collapsing their authorization boundaries.

Read guide 18 · IntegrationsConnect X, Notion or Evernote

Keep sign-in, capture consent and research export permissions separate.

Read guide 19 · Account & deliveryManage account, profile and reading defaults

Change identity, credentials, connected login methods and the defaults that should travel across devices.

Read guide 20 · Account & deliveryUnderstand credits, storage and billing

Free and Pro keep identical reading fidelity; volume and delivery profiles are the commercial boundary.

Read guide 21 · Safety & supportKnow what Ratdolt can open

Understand public-network, access, size, media and site-owner policy boundaries before troubleshooting.

Read guide 22 · Safety & supportUnderstand website security and report a vulnerability

Inspect what the website may access, what its delivery policy denies and how to send a minimal responsible report.

Read guide 23 · Safety & supportTroubleshoot and report a problem

Identify intake, acquisition, extraction, composition, storage or delivery failures without leaking private content.

Read guide

One interface · no extension shell

Know where every action lives.

Ratdolt does not split navigation between browser chrome and a downloaded dashboard. Eight quick actions and seven workspace destinations stay in one first-party web system, with each owner named before you open it.

08 destinations

Quick access · focused website

The same first-party destinations are available from navigation and All tools. Ratdolt never appears over another website.
  1. 01Keep a page for later
  2. 02Open canonical Reader
  3. 03Open a PDF workspace
  4. 04Tune highlight actions
  5. 05Edit public identity
  6. 06Search all materials
  7. 07Search product Help
  8. 08Open website settings

07 destinations

Workspace · owned destinations

Library, Account, PDF and Research keep their own object authority while remaining one navigable website.
  1. 01Account and public identity
  2. 02Tag vocabulary
  3. 03Collections
  4. 04Full-material search
  5. 05Add the material you have
  6. 06Saved web readings
  7. 07Four-view instant preview

Complete tool destinations

Every named action.
One real Ratdolt owner.

Thirty-seven current reading-tool entries resolve here without an extension options maze. Personal presentation belongs to Composer; canonical output stays in Reader; provider and focused-tab boundaries remain visible.

Reader & shell

  1. 01Product interfaceOpen owner
  2. 02Canonical ReaderOpen owner
  3. 03Reader controlsOpen owner
  4. 04Reader print and PDFOpen owner
  5. 05Page outlineOpen owner

Composer & accessibility

  1. 01Personal reading settingsOpen owner
  2. 02Delete recovered itemsOpen owner
  3. 03Edit recovered contentOpen owner
  4. 04Scoped custom CSSOpen owner
  5. 05Typography and fontsOpen owner
  6. 06Accessible fontsOpen owner
  7. 07URL routing rulesOpen owner
  8. 08Auto-scrollOpen owner
  9. 09Reading rulerOpen owner
  10. 10Text to speechOpen owner
  11. 11Delete recovered items — indexed duplicateOpen owner
  12. 12Composer themesOpen owner
  13. 13TranslationOpen owner

Highlights & selection

  1. 01Highlight settingsOpen owner
  2. 02Highlights and annotationsOpen owner
  3. 03Selection actionsOpen owner
  4. 04Search selected textOpen owner
  5. 05Post selected text to XOpen owner

Library & durable copies

  1. 01Library dashboardOpen owner
  2. 02Save and openOpen owner
  3. 03CollectionsOpen owner
  4. 04TagsOpen owner
  5. 05Library searchOpen owner
  6. 06Permanent copiesOpen owner
  7. 07Instant PreviewOpen owner

Publishing & collaboration

  1. 01Public pagesOpen owner
  2. 02EmbedsOpen owner
  3. 03Public profileOpen owner
  4. 04CollaborationOpen owner
  5. 05Share a readingOpen owner

Research & citations

  1. 01Citation generatorOpen owner
  2. 02NotesOpen owner

Reader Mode · current guide map

One reading answer.
Every adjacent owner.

Nineteen text-backed release outcomes stay explicit: what the canonical edition removes or preserves, how a whole article enters Composer, and where selected-text actions and ten named capabilities live.

06

Reading edition

  1. 01
    Canonical Reader

    Set one source-faithful measured edition with no personal overlay.

    Open owner
  2. 02
    No advertisement surface

    Compose authored reading structure without source-page advertising containers.

    Open owner
  3. 03
    Reading structure only

    Keep article structure while unrelated source navigation stays outside the edition.

    Open owner
  4. 04
    No active source overlays

    Reader contains no source scripts, forms or popup behavior.

    Open owner
  5. 05
    Measured page system

    Reduce the source to bounded authored blocks before pagination.

    Open owner
  6. 06
    Source-faithful essentials

    Retain eligible authored text and figures; unsupported active media remains an explicit boundary.

    Open owner
01

Whole article entry

  1. 01
    Reader intake

    Submit a public unrestricted address to Ratdolt's first-party Reader path.

    Open owner
02

Selected-text recovery

  1. 01
    Selected-text actions

    Use the compact toolbar only inside a focused Ratdolt Composer workspace.

    Open owner
  2. 02
    Read selection

    Create a private source-attributed Reader handoff only after the explicit action.

    Open owner
10

Named capabilities

  1. 01
    Typography and fonts

    Choose bundled, system or explicitly named device-local reading faces in Composer.

    Open owner
  2. 02
    Accessible fonts

    Use bundled accessible faces or clearly labelled device-local choices.

    Open owner
  3. 03
    Frozen reading share

    Create an explicit immutable/revocable reading snapshot with separately chosen research.

    Open owner
  4. 04
    URL routing rules

    Route only URLs deliberately submitted to Ratdolt; unrelated tabs remain browser-owned.

    Open owner
  5. 05
    Reading ruler

    Configure colour, opacity, height and position in the personal Composer layer.

    Open owner
  6. 06
    Listen

    Use bounded browser speech for the document, selected passage or current PDF page.

    Open owner
  7. 07
    Delete recovered items

    Remove exact blocks from the private Composer overlay while Reader stays canonical.

    Open owner
  8. 08
    Web and PDF highlights

    Keep colour, note and folder anchors with the exact web source or PDF digest.

    Open owner
  9. 09
    Themes

    Apply accessible preset or custom colours only to the personal Composer view.

    Open owner
  10. 10
    Translation

    Translate the whole document or exact selection through the current browser with an explicit fallback.

    Open owner

Highlights · complete web workflow

Every passage action.
Its real owner.

Thirty-nine text-backed outcomes stay distinct: where a mark begins, how it is edited, what one saved source can export, how an exact PDF enters research, and when a provider receives anything. Images and extension-only chrome are not treated as hidden requirements.

05

Where highlights begin

  1. 01
    Captured webpage

    Paste a public URL or bring selected content into a source-attributed Composer workspace.

    Open owner
  2. 02
    Focused reading workspace

    Keep personal marks in Composer while the immutable Reader edition remains unchanged.

    Open owner
  3. 03
    Exact-file PDF

    Anchor colour, quote and research data to the local file digest and page.

    Open owner
  4. 04
    First-party web entry

    Use Ratdolt directly in the current tab; no extension install or unrelated-tab permission is required.

    Open owner
  5. 05
    Library source entry

    Open a saved source from Library into its exact Composer or PDF owner.

    Open owner
01

Focused-site access

  1. 01
    Selection controls

    Control Ratdolt's selected-text toolbar for focused Composer and PDF workspaces.

    Open owner
10

Create and edit

  1. 01
    Select a passage

    Use native selection inside a Ratdolt workspace before any research action occurs.

    Open owner
  2. 02
    Open selected-text actions

    Expose the resolved palette and explicit passage actions beside the focused workspace.

    Open owner
  3. 03
    Create highlight

    Apply a named colour from the resolved global or folder palette.

    Open owner
  4. 04
    Direct action controls

    Keep every edit keyboard-accessible and visible without requiring hover discovery.

    Open owner
  5. 05
    Reopen saved highlight

    Activate the anchored mark to edit the same research object.

    Open owner
  6. 06
    Change colour

    Resolve the available named colours from the highlight's current folder.

    Open owner
  7. 07
    Annotate

    Store a bounded personal note with the anchored excerpt.

    Open owner
  8. 08
    Highlight Settings

    Open the first-party palette and selected-text preference owner.

    Open owner
  9. 09
    Change research folder

    Move the excerpt between nested research folders without changing its source anchor.

    Open owner
  10. 10
    Delete highlight

    Remove the selected research object through an explicit labelled action.

    Open owner
11

Export one saved source

  1. 01
    Open Library

    Choose the exact saved publication whose source version owns the research export.

    Open owner
  2. 02
    Source actions

    Expose Export highlights directly on the saved source instead of hiding it in an unlabeled menu.

    Open owner
  3. 03
    Export highlights

    Open that publication's source-credited export group in Composer.

    Open owner
  4. 04
    Focused export group

    Keep all outputs together for the exact saved source and version.

    Open owner
  5. 05
    Choose an output

    Nothing downloads, prints, opens a provider handoff or sends until the reader chooses it.

    Open owner
  6. 06
    Evernote handoff

    Download account-independent ENEX or use the separately connected, provider-gated handoff.

    Open owner
  7. 07
    Notion handoff

    Download Markdown or use the separately connected, provider-gated page handoff.

    Open owner
  8. 08
    Word document

    Download a source-credited browser-built DOC file.

    Open owner
  9. 09
    Print / Save PDF

    Open the isolated A4 research report through the browser print boundary.

    Open owner
  10. 10
    Text file

    Download a portable source-credited plain-text artifact.

    Open owner
  11. 11
    Email research

    Open a local mail draft or use separately account-gated bounded delivery.

    Open owner
09

PDF entry and research

  1. 01
    Prepare a public PDF URL

    Review the address before the guarded first-party retrieval begins.

    Open owner
  2. 02
    Open Ratdolt PDF

    Navigate directly to the first-party PDF workspace without extension chrome.

    Open owner
  3. 03
    Open public PDF

    Fetch only after explicit submit through the public-network guard, then parse locally.

    Open owner
  4. 04
    Select in the document

    Use the PDF selection bar inside the exact-file workspace.

    Open owner
  5. 05
    Dashboard + Add

    Keep PDF alongside the other explicit Library intake authorities.

    Open owner
  6. 06
    Choose PDF

    Route to the local-first intake without uploading on navigation.

    Open owner
  7. 07
    Choose a device PDF

    Parse the file in this browser; cloud storage remains a separate explicit action.

    Open owner
  8. 08
    Highlight exact-file text

    Attach a colour and quote to page-relative rectangles under the file digest.

    Open owner
  9. 09
    Annotate exact-file text

    Add label, folder and note without rewriting or transmitting the original PDF.

    Open owner
03

Provider synchronization

  1. 01
    Provider settings

    Review portability, connection, manual handoff and automatic sync as separate stages.

    Open owner
  2. 02
    Connect a provider

    Authorize Notion or Evernote independently; connection alone enables no background write.

    Open owner
  3. 03
    Enable automatic Composer sync

    Turn on the reversible per-provider preference; local-PDF sync stays per document.

    Open owner

Still deciding where to begin?

Start with the kind of source you actually have.

Public web pagePaste its URLRatdolt fetches without your browser session.Private documentChoose a PDF in ComposerBytes stay on device unless you explicitly save them.