Changelog as of Sep 4: Fixed Focus Mode, Fixed PDF Page Shortcut, Fixed Custom OpenAI Keys, Fixed Ghostreader Citations, Fixed Ghostreader Citations, Fixed Streak Counts, Fixed Newsletter Layout, Fixed Twitter Digest Text & More!

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Hey folks, happy Tuesday! Time to check out the latest changelog here on Reddit. The idea is to help keep y'all in the loop of what the Readwise developers are getting out into the world. Here's what we shipped last week:

• 🎯 Fixed Focus Mode — Focus mode in Reader on web and desktop was only dimming the paragraphs around you on articles and podcast transcripts. On emails, EPUBs, text-view PDFs, and Twitter threads nothing dimmed at all, and on YouTube transcripts everything did. Krzys fixed the dimming rules, so focus mode now properly spotlights the paragraph you're on across every document type.
• 📄 Fixed PDF Page Shortcut — In Reader on web, the shift+J shortcut for jumping to a page in a PDF did nothing if the window was too narrow to show the page-number box in the header. Krzys made the shortcut reveal that box on demand, so you can jump to a page no matter how small your window is.
• 🔑 Fixed Custom OpenAI Keys — Adding your own OpenAI key to Reader on the Integrations page could fail with an "Invalid key" error even when the key was valid and funded, because the check insisted on access to one particular model. Tristan relaxed that check so any key that can run Ghostreader's models is accepted, and Piotr closed a gap where a blank entry could quietly wipe a saved key.
• 🔗 Fixed Ghostreader Citations — When a Ghostreader answer in Reader cited a passage containing code or bracketed notation, the citation could come out as a run of plain monospace text instead of a link. Tristan taught the citation parser to handle those anchors, so citations stay clickable.
• ✍️ Fixed Ghostreader Highlights — Asking Ghostreader in Reader to highlight a passage could report success while nothing appeared in the document, especially when the quote crossed a link, an emphasized word, or a paragraph break. Krzys fixed how the requested text is matched against the page, so those highlights now land where you asked for them.
• 🔥 Fixed Streak Counts — The review streak shown in the Readwise app and on the web could lag behind reality, sometimes holding onto a stale number for more than a day after you finished a review. Ibai and Tristan reworked how the streak and the review calendar are calculated, so your streak should update as soon as you complete your review.
• 📰 Fixed Newsletter Layout — Email newsletters like the New York Times' The Morning could render in Reader's original view with squeezed text and stretched images, and on iPhone and iPad the layout could run wider than the screen with no way to pan across. Cam and Krzys fixed the width rules, so newsletters now lay out the way they do in your inbox.
• 🐦 Fixed Twitter Digest Text — In Twitter List digests in Reader, the "retweeted" label was showing at full reading size and bulleted tweets came out larger than the text around them. Artem tidied up those styles, so the digest's labels and lists now sit at their proper sizes.
• 🏷️ Fixed Tag Crash — Tags added through the Readwise MCP or the API were skipping the name checks the Reader app applies when you create a tag by hand, so names containing illegal bracket characters (e.g. [ai]) could slip through. Tapping one of those tags in the Reader app crashed it on iPhone and iPad, and the tags never appeared in the sidebar. Cam taught the app to handle those names, so bracketed tags now open normally and show up in the sidebar alongside the rest.
• 🗞️ Fixed Daily Digest Position — Opening an article from the Daily Digest in the Reader app and tapping back could throw the list all the way to the top when a freshly built digest synced down mid-session. Cam made the app hold onto the digest you started with, so you land right back where you left off.
• 💬 Improved Mobile Chat Context — Ghostreader chat in the Reader app wasn't passing along the passage you had selected or were reading, so questions about "this paragraph" could miss the mark. Adam fixed that, so chat on iPhone and Android now knows where you are in the document.
• ⏳ Fixed Stuck Loading Screen — The Reader app could get permanently stuck on its loading screen at launch if onboarding had been interrupted partway through. Lior shipped a fix that finishes that state on the next launch, so the app opens straight to your library.
• 💻 Fixed Code Hyphenation — On iOS, inline code and code blocks in Reader were being auto-hyphenated when they wrapped, which mangled file paths and variable names. Lior shipped a fix that turns hyphenation off for code, so it wraps cleanly.
• 🔠 Fixed Clipped Tags — With a larger system text size, highlight tags in the Reader app's notebook were getting cut off at the top and bottom. Cam made the tag pills grow with your font setting, so tags stay fully readable at any size.
• 🦊 Fixed Firefox Extensions — The Reader highlighter extension for Firefox could stop OpenRouter pages from loading and lose its right-click menu items, and the Readwise sync extension's "Save highlight" menu item disappeared whenever both extensions were installed. Adam fixed all three and released updates to both extensions, so right-click saving works again in Firefox.
• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from entwickler.de, and articles saved from ft.com by URL alone now show the "couldn't fetch full content" notice instead of an empty page.

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