Appearance and clock format

Light, dark, system

Settings → Appearance. System follows whatever your operating system is doing, which is what most people want; the other two pin it.

Changing it repaints every Latr surface at once — the popup, the calendar, the settings page you are on. There is no reload, and no page left showing the old palette.

The 12- or 24-hour clock

Your browser picks 12- or 24-hour from your language, which is right for most people and wrong for anyone with an opinion — a 24-hour household on an English profile, or the reverse. There is no way to read such a preference from the browser, so Latr carries its own.

Set it once and every clock in the product follows: the queue, the composer, the picker, the calendar, the notifications.

Page thumbnails

Latr can store a small picture of the page you saved, shown beside the reminder in the queue and enlarged when you hover it. It is genuinely useful when several reminders have similar-sounding titles, which happens more than you would think.

There is a master switch, and beneath it a switch per way of saving — so the toolbar icon can take a screenshot while the address-bar keyword does not. A thumbnail is only ever taken of the tab you are actually looking at; a link right-clicked on some other page gets none rather than a confident picture of the wrong thing.

Where you were

With this on, Latr remembers roughly where you had scrolled to and reopens the page there rather than at the top. On a long article that is the difference between coming back to the page and coming back to your place in it.

It works by storing the line of text that was at the top of your screen and reopening with it as a text-fragment link, which is a standard browser feature — so your browser does the scrolling and highlights the passage. Nothing is injected into the page when it reopens, and no extra permission is needed.

Three things follow from that, all of them worth knowing:

• Nothing is stored for a page you saved near the top, which is most saves. There is no position to remember.
• If the page has changed enough that the text is gone, it simply opens normally. A reminder is never worse off for having tried.
• It is more reliable than a scroll position would be. A pixel offset is wrong at a different window size and wrong again once images load and reflow the article, which they always have by the time a reminder fires days later.

The badge

A count of pending reminders, a countdown to the next one, or nothing. The toolbar badge covers all three and the zero-state option.

Colour themes

Eight starter palettes and an editor for your own — the colour theme editor. That part needs a licence; everything else on this page is free.