v1.1.0
Latest
May 2026
New
New
Multi-author follow. Articles with multiple authors now show each one as a separate follow option — with
Author and Page badges. Follow Hamza Farooq, Jaya Rajwani, and Lenny's Newsletter independently from the same article.
New
Platform blocklist. 60+ domains — Medium, Reddit, arXiv, PubMed, ResearchGate, Nature, and more — are blocked from appearing as followable pages. Following a platform would pull in thousands of unrelated articles; PaperWeight now surfaces only the author option instead.
New
Email digest via Apps Script. Get a weekly digest delivered to your Gmail — no PaperWeight servers involved. You deploy a small script to your own Google account (free, one-time 5-minute setup). PaperWeight builds the digest locally and sends it through your script.
New
AI-written digest. Add an API key from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google in Settings and your digest opens with a personalised synthesis paragraph — your reading patterns reflected back in 2–3 sentences. Falls back gracefully to a structured layout if no key is set.
New
Panel close buttons. Each drawer (Following, Email Digest, Settings) now has a visible × button so you can return to the article view without hunting for the icon that opened it.
Improvements
Improve
AI tagging expanded to three providers. Settings now lets you pick Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google with a model dropdown per provider. Recommended models are starred. Get API key links open the right provider page directly.
Improve
Digest setup redesigned. Step-by-step guide with syntax-highlighted script, one-click copy, and a Connect & Save button that sends a test email to validate the URL before saving. Schedule (daily / weekly / monthly, time, timezone) is set right there — no separate step.
Improve
AI synthesis error visibility. When an API key is saved but digest synthesis fails (wrong key, model mismatch), the digest panel now shows the error message with a "Check key →" link to Settings — instead of silently falling back.
Improve
Import feedback. The Import button now shows a clear success or error message after loading a JSON file — previously it was silent regardless of outcome.
Fixes
Fix
Read articles re-appearing in feed. Substack and some newsletters append tracking params like
?r=… to URLs. PaperWeight's read-tracking normalisation now strips these, so articles opened directly in a new tab are correctly marked as read.
Fix
"Following Ben Shih" false positive. On guest-authored Lenny's Newsletter posts, the popup incorrectly showed the guest author's name as "Following". It now looks up the actual followed source by domain and displays the correct label.
Fix
Random websites in "Read This Week" digest. The read log previously captured every page visited — including dev servers and unrelated browsing. Now only articles from followed sources are logged, so the digest reflects actual reading from your feed.
Fix
"Manage your downloads" permission warning removed. Export no longer uses the
downloads API — it creates a temporary blob URL and triggers a native browser download instead. The Chrome install dialog no longer shows the alarming permission warning.