Surfed 2.0 - The long awaited iCloud-Sync is here!

I am excited to announce the latest update of Surfed, the ultimate app for managing your browsing history, bookmarks and links. Surfed is designed to help you get the most out of your online experience, whether you are a casual surfer, a power user, or a professional researcher. With Surfed, you can easily organise, filter, search, export, and listen to your web content across all your devices.

What's new in Surfed 2.0?

The long awaited iCloud-Sync is here! Surfed 2.0 is packed with new features and improvements. Here are some of the highlights:

iCloud Sync

Synchronise your browsing history, smart collections, tags, web triggers, URLs, and app settings across all your devices. No matter where you browse, Surfed will keep everything in sync.

Spaces & Profiles

Organise your items in different spaces, such as work, personal, or project-based. You can also use Safari iOS 17 Profiles to switch between different spaces with ease.

New App Icon

Surfed has a fresh and modern app icon, designed by the talented Matthew Skiles. The new icon reflects the app's sleek and powerful functionality.

Multi-Select

Select multiple items in lists and perform actions, such as adding tags, deleting, exporting, or listening. You can also assign items to rdifferent spaces.

Focus Filter

Select your space and web trigger behaviour with our new focus filter. Select an specific space automatically and focus on these items or toggle Web Trigger execution.

Activity Widget

Monitor your daily browsing activity with a heatmap widget. You can see how much time you spend on a day for all or for a specific space.

Hidden Items

Hide items in history, smart collections, and tag lists with custom filter terms. You can also unhide items at any time. This is useful for hiding sensitive or irrelevant items from your lists.

Location Filter

Filter lists by space or device with the new location filter. You can see which items were visited on which device, or in which space. This is helpful for finding items that you browsed on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

Web Trigger Action “Assign to Space”

Automatically assign browsing history to a selected space while browsing in Safari. You can set up web triggers based on URL patterns, keywords, or categories, and assign them to different spaces. This way, you can keep your browsing history organised without manual intervention.

Shortcuts Action “Listen Article”

Start listening to articles with Shortcuts or Siri from a tag, collection, or links. You can use voice commands to listen to your web content, such as "Hey Siri, listen to my reading list". You can also create custom shortcuts to listen to specific items or collections.

Shortcuts Action “Switch to Space”

Switch to a selected space with Shortcuts. You can use voice commands to switch between different spaces, such as "Hey Siri, switch to work space". You can also create custom shortcuts to switch to specific spaces.

Global Web Trigger Setting

Option to disable automatic web trigger actions. You can turn off web triggers globally if you don't want them to run automatically. You can still manually trigger them from the app or the Safari extension.

Import Bookmarks

Import bookmarks from browsers or third-party apps. You can import your bookmarks from Safari, Chrome, Firefox, or other apps that support bookmark export. You can also choose which space to import them to, or create a new space for them.

Web Trigger

Added rules filter device, location, private mode, and new article parameter reading time. You can now create more advanced and customised web triggers based on various criteria, such as the device you are using, the location you are in, the private mode status, or the reading time of the article.

Listen Article

Listen to articles in a queue, use playback actions like next, previous, skip, change playback position, and save the latest listening position. You can also select your preferred voice. Surfed makes listening to web content easy and convenient. You can listen to articles from your history, smart collections, tags, or links. You can also control the playback with buttons, or voice commands. Surfed will remember your listening position and resume from where you left off. Turn your web articles into your own podcasts.

Share Article as Audio

Distribute your favourite articles in enriched audio format. Utilise the option to convert text into an audio file, making it easier to share web articles with others. This feature allows you to transform articles from your history, smart collections, tags, or links into audible content, inclusive of metadata such as the article image, title, and author.

Read Article

Font and size settings, text selection. You can now adjust the font and size of the article text to suit your preference. You can also select and copy text from the article, or share it with other apps.

Filter Rules

Added new rules filter device, location, private mode, session time, and article: listened, listening, read and time: morning, afternoon, evening, at night. You can now create more refined and personalised smart collections based on various criteria, such as the device you used, the location you were in, the private mode status, the session time, entries from morning, afternoon, evening, at night or the article status.

Global Search

Added context menu actions. You can now perform various actions from the global search results.

Session Time

Sort lists by the visited time or use the session time as filter rule in smart collections. You can also sort the lists by the session time, or use it as a filter rule in smart collections.

CSV Export

Export your history, tag items, and links as comma separated list. You can now export your data in CSV format, which is compatible with most spreadsheet applications. You can also choose which fields to include in the export.

Print & PDF

Print or save lists as PDF. You can now print or save your history, smart collections, tags, or links as PDF files.

New Actions

Show URL parameters, Copy URL components actions, Listen all, From this domain, Reload Image. You can now access more actions from the item details or the context menu, such as showing the URL parameters, copying the URL components, listening to all items in a list, show all items from this domain or reload the website image.

Release Notes

• New
  iCloud Sync

  Synchronise your Browsing History, Smart Collections, Tags, Web Triggers, URLs, and App Settings across all your devices.

• New
  Spaces & Profiles

  Organise your items in different spaces. Compatible with Safari iOS 17 Profiles.

• New
  New App Icon

  Matthew Skiles has designed a fresh app icon.

• New
  Multi-Select

  Select multiple items in lists and perform actions.

• New
  Focus Filter

  Select your Space and Web Trigger behaviour with our new Focus Filter.

• New
  Activity Widget

  Monitor your daily browsing activity with a heatmap widget.

• New
  Hidden Items

  Hide items in history, smart collections and tag lists with custom filter terms.

• New
  Location Filter

  Filter lists by space or device with the new Location Filter.

• New
  Web Trigger Action “Assign to Space”

  Automatically assign browsing history to a selected space while browsing in Safari.

• New
  Shortcuts Action “Listen Article”

  Start listening articles with Shortcuts or Siri from a tag, collection or links.

• New
  Shortcuts Action “Switch to Space”

  Switch to a selected space with Shortcuts.

• New
  Global Web Trigger Setting

  Option to disable automatic Web Trigger actions.

• New
  Import Bookmarks

  Import bookmarks from browsers or third-party apps.

• New
  Web Trigger

  Added rules filter device, location, private mode and new article parameter reading time.

• New
  Listen Article

  Listen articles in a queue, use playback actions like next, previous, skip, change playback position and save the latest listening position and select your preferred voice.

• New
  Share Article as Audio

  Share an article as an audio file.

• New
  Read Article

  Font and Size settings, text selection

• New
  Filter Rules

  Added new rules filter device, location, private mode, session time, morning, afternoon, evening, at night, and article: listened, listening, read

• New
  Global Search

  Added context menu actions

• New
  Session Time

  Sort lists by the visited time or use the session time as filter rule in smart collections.

• New
  CSV Export

  Export your history, tag items and links as comma separated list.

• New
  Print & PDF

  Print or save lists as PDF.

• New
  New Actions

  Show URL parameters, Copy URL components actions, Listen all, From this domain, Reload Image

• Updated
  Chinese translation by zshbleaker
• Updated
  French translation by Fabrice Tesan

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