PaperWeight

PaperWeight learns your taste, follows your favourite authors and pages to get a curated feed for you.

As of June 2026, PaperWeight has 9 users in the Workflow & Planning category.

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Manifest V3
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May 25, 202681.1.0
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  • May 25, 2026
    description
    Miss articles from writers you love? PaperWeight fixes that.                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                     Follow any author or publication — Substack, Medium, Ghost, Beehiiv, WordPress, or any RSS feed. Hit "Get Latest" and PaperWeight fetches everything new from every source you follow, ranked by how relevant it is to you. The best articles surface first. Always.                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                     The more you read, like, and dislike — the sharper it gets. 📈                                                                                                 
       
    ✨ WHAT YOU GET                                                                                                                                                
                                                                
    📰 Ranked feed — new posts from every author you follow, scored for you — not by publish time                                                                  
     👍 Taste profile — built from your likes, dislikes, and how deeply you read. Updates as you go.
    🗂 Side panel — your full reading queue, open alongside any article you're reading                                                                              
    📧 Email digest — a personalised weekly summary delivered to your Gmail inbox (optional)                                                                       
    🏷️  AI tagging — smarter topic matching with your own API key — Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google (optional)                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                     HOW IT WORKS                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                     
    1️⃣ Follow any author on any blog, newsletter, or publication that supports a web feed.                                                                                
    2️⃣ Like or dislike articles as you read them              
    3️⃣ Hit "Get Latest" — PaperWeight fetches all sources and ranks what matters most to you                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                     
    No algorithm selling your attention. No trending topics. No noise.                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                     WHY PAPERWEIGHT?                                                                                                                                               
                                                                
    Most RSS readers show everything in chronological order. PaperWeight scores every article against your personal taste profile — author affinity, topic overlap,
    reading depth — so the best posts always come first, no matter when they were published.
                                                                                                                                                                     
    🔒 PRIVACY FIRST — NO SERVERS, NO ACCOUNT                 
    
    Everything — your taste profile, followed sources, reading history — stays in your browser using Chrome's local storage. No sign-up. No tracking. No analytics.
    Nothing leaves your device.
                                                                                                                                                                     
    The only outbound requests are:                                                                                                                                
    • RSS feeds you follow (fetched directly from the source)
    • Your AI provider of choice (optional — only article title and snippet, no personal data)                                                                     
    • Your own Google Apps Script for email digest (optional — no PaperWeight servers involved)                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                     
    Full privacy policy: https://paperweight-eight.vercel.app/privacy                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                     
    🏷️  OPTIONAL: AI TAGGING                                                                                                                                        
       
    Add an Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google AI API key in Settings. Without a key, PaperWeight tags articles by keyword. With one, a language model reads each title   and snippet to generate precise topic tags — your taste profile sharpens faster. Only title and snippet are sent. No personal data included.
    
    📧 OPTIONAL: EMAIL DIGEST                                                                                                                                      
       
    Deploy a free Google Apps Script to your own Google account (one-time setup, takes minutes). PaperWeight builds your digest locally and sends it from your own 
    Gmail — to your own inbox. No PaperWeight servers see your email or your data. Includes top ranked articles, Gmail newsletters grouped by sender, and an
    AI-written summary if you have an API key.
    Save your time finding what to read and get your personal feed in a click.
    
    PaperWeight lets you follow authors and publications across open web — then ranks new articles by how relevant they are to you.
    
    As you read, like, and dislike articles, PaperWeight continuously learns your interests and improves your feed over time.
    
    ✨ Features
    
    📰 Smart Ranked Feed
    Fetch new posts from every source you follow and rank them by personal relevance — not publish time.
    
    👍 Adaptive Taste Profile
    PaperWeight learns from your reading behaviour, likes, dislikes, and reading depth to personalise recommendations.
    
    🗂 Reading Queue Side Panel
    Keep your reading list open alongside any article you’re viewing.
    
    📧 Weekly Email Digest (Optional)
    Receive a personalised summary of top articles directly in your Gmail inbox.
    
    🏷️ AI-Powered Topic Tagging (Optional)
    Use your own Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google API key for smarter article tagging and faster personalisation.
    
    How It Works: 
    Follow any blog, newsletter, or publication with a web feed
    Like or dislike articles as you read
    Click Get Latest to fetch and rank everything new across your sources
    
    PaperWeight continuously updates your recommendations based on what you actually enjoy reading.
    
    Why PaperWeight? 
    
    Most RSS readers show posts in chronological order.
    PaperWeight instead builds a personal relevance model using:
    - author affinity
    - topic overlap
    - reading behaviour
    - engagement patterns
    
    The result: the articles most likely to matter to you rise to the top automatically.
    
    🔒 Privacy First — No Servers, No Accounts
    
    Everything stays in your browser:
    - followed sources
    - reading history
    - taste profile
    - preferences
    
    No accounts. No analytics. No tracking.
    - PaperWeight stores data locally using Chrome storage. Nothing is sent to PaperWeight servers because there are none.
    
    Outbound requests are limited to:
    - RSS feeds you follow
    - your chosen AI provider (optional)
    - your own Google Apps Script for email digests (optional)
    
    Privacy Policy: paperweight.work/privacy
    
    🏷️ Optional AI Tagging
    
    Without an API key, PaperWeight uses keyword-based tagging.
    With your own Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google API key, article titles and snippets are analysed to generate more accurate topic tags and improve recommendations faster.
    
    Only article titles and snippets are sent — never personal browsing data.
    
    📧 Optional Email Digest
    
    Set up a free Google Apps Script in your own Google account to receive weekly reading digests.
    PaperWeight generates the digest locally and sends it from your own Gmail account to your own inbox. No PaperWeight infrastructure is involved.
    
    Digests can include:
    
    - top-ranked articles
    - grouped newsletters
    - AI-generated summaries (with API key enabled)
  • May 19, 2026
    description
    PaperWeight learns what you love to read, then surfaces the best new posts from authors you follow — ranked by your taste, not publish time.
    
    Follow authors or pages → click 'Get Latest' → Get  curated feed of their latest posts or email digest
    
    HOW IT WORKS
    
    Like or dislike any article as you read it. PaperWeight builds a taste profile from your signals: which authors you enjoy, which topics you return to, how deeply you read. No account. No sync. Everything stays in your browser.
    
    Follow any author on Substack, Medium, Ghost, Beehiiv, WordPress, or any RSS-enabled site. Hit "Get Latest" and PaperWeight fetches all your sources and ranks new articles — the most relevant ones appear first, regardless of publish time.
    
    SCORING
    
    Every article gets a relevance score based on author affinity and topic overlap with your taste profile. Recent articles score higher. PaperWeight also applies diversity enforcement so no single source dominates your queue, and suppresses topics you've recently disliked.
    
    Taste weights decay over 30 days, so your feed naturally shifts as your interests evolve.
    
    WHAT YOU GET
    
    • Taste profile — author and topic weights built from likes, dislikes, and read depth
    • Ranked feed — all your followed sources fetched and scored on demand
    • Side panel — open your reading queue alongside any article
    • Weekly digest — a personalised email covering your top articles and newsletters (optional)
    
    OPTIONAL: AI TAGGING
    
    Add an Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google AI API key in Settings to enable semantic topic tagging. Article titles and short snippets are sent to your chosen provider to generate topic tags. No personal data is included. Tagging is optional — PaperWeight works without it.
    
    OPTIONAL: EMAIL DIGEST
    
    PaperWeight can send you a weekly digest of your top articles and unread Gmail newsletters — with no PaperWeight servers involved. You deploy a small Google Apps Script (free, takes 4 minutes) to your own Google account. PaperWeight builds the digest locally and posts it to your script, which sends the email from your own Gmail to your own inbox.
    
    The digest includes: top scored articles, newsletters from your Gmail inbox grouped by sender, articles you read this week, and a highlights section from your followed authors. If you have an AI key configured, the digest opens with a personalised synthesis paragraph written by the AI.
    
    PRIVACY
    
    PaperWeight has no servers. All data — your taste profile, followed sources, reading history — is stored locally in your browser using chrome.storage.local. No analytics. No tracking. No account required.
    
    The only outbound requests are:
    • RSS feed URLs (to fetch articles from sources you follow)
    • Your chosen AI provider (optional — only article title and snippet, no personal data)
    • Your own Google Apps Script URL (optional — digest HTML you built locally)
    
    Full privacy policy: https://paperweight-eight.vercel.app/privacy
    Miss articles from writers you love? PaperWeight fixes that.                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                     Follow any author or publication — Substack, Medium, Ghost, Beehiiv, WordPress, or any RSS feed. Hit "Get Latest" and PaperWeight fetches everything new from every source you follow, ranked by how relevant it is to you. The best articles surface first. Always.                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                     The more you read, like, and dislike — the sharper it gets. 📈                                                                                                 
       
    ✨ WHAT YOU GET                                                                                                                                                
                                                                
    📰 Ranked feed — new posts from every author you follow, scored for you — not by publish time                                                                  
     👍 Taste profile — built from your likes, dislikes, and how deeply you read. Updates as you go.
    🗂 Side panel — your full reading queue, open alongside any article you're reading                                                                              
    📧 Email digest — a personalised weekly summary delivered to your Gmail inbox (optional)                                                                       
    🏷️  AI tagging — smarter topic matching with your own API key — Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google (optional)                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                     HOW IT WORKS                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                     
    1️⃣ Follow any author on any blog, newsletter, or publication that supports a web feed.                                                                                
    2️⃣ Like or dislike articles as you read them              
    3️⃣ Hit "Get Latest" — PaperWeight fetches all sources and ranks what matters most to you                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                     
    No algorithm selling your attention. No trending topics. No noise.                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                     WHY PAPERWEIGHT?                                                                                                                                               
                                                                
    Most RSS readers show everything in chronological order. PaperWeight scores every article against your personal taste profile — author affinity, topic overlap,
    reading depth — so the best posts always come first, no matter when they were published.
                                                                                                                                                                     
    🔒 PRIVACY FIRST — NO SERVERS, NO ACCOUNT                 
    
    Everything — your taste profile, followed sources, reading history — stays in your browser using Chrome's local storage. No sign-up. No tracking. No analytics.
    Nothing leaves your device.
                                                                                                                                                                     
    The only outbound requests are:                                                                                                                                
    • RSS feeds you follow (fetched directly from the source)
    • Your AI provider of choice (optional — only article title and snippet, no personal data)                                                                     
    • Your own Google Apps Script for email digest (optional — no PaperWeight servers involved)                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                     
    Full privacy policy: https://paperweight-eight.vercel.app/privacy                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                     
    🏷️  OPTIONAL: AI TAGGING                                                                                                                                        
       
    Add an Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google AI API key in Settings. Without a key, PaperWeight tags articles by keyword. With one, a language model reads each title   and snippet to generate precise topic tags — your taste profile sharpens faster. Only title and snippet are sent. No personal data included.
    
    📧 OPTIONAL: EMAIL DIGEST                                                                                                                                      
       
    Deploy a free Google Apps Script to your own Google account (one-time setup, takes minutes). PaperWeight builds your digest locally and sends it from your own 
    Gmail — to your own inbox. No PaperWeight servers see your email or your data. Includes top ranked articles, Gmail newsletters grouped by sender, and an
    AI-written summary if you have an API key.
  • May 19, 2026
    category
    productivity/tools
    productivity/workflow
  • May 19, 2026
    permissions
    activeTab, storage, scripting, alarms, sidePanel, downloads
    activeTab, storage, scripting, alarms, sidePanel

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About

Save your time finding what to read and get your personal feed in a click.

PaperWeight lets you follow authors and publications across open web — then ranks new articles by how relevant they are to you.

As you read, like, and dislike articles, PaperWeight continuously learns your interests and improves your feed over time.

✨ Features

📰 Smart Ranked Feed
Fetch new posts from every source you follow and rank them by personal relevance — not publish time.

👍 Adaptive Taste Profile
PaperWeight learns from your reading behaviour, likes, dislikes, and reading depth to personalise recommendations.

🗂 Reading Queue Side Panel
Keep your reading list open alongside any article you’re viewing.

📧 Weekly Email Digest (Optional)
Receive a personalised summary of top articles directly in your Gmail inbox.

🏷️ AI-Powered Topic Tagging (Optional)
Use your own Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google API key for smarter article tagging and faster personalisation.

How It Works: 
Follow any blog, newsletter, or publication with a web feed
Like or dislike articles as you read
Click Get Latest to fetch and rank everything new across your sources

PaperWeight continuously updates your recommendations based on what you actually enjoy reading.

Why PaperWeight? 

Most RSS readers show posts in chronological order.
PaperWeight instead builds a personal relevance model using:
- author affinity
- topic overlap
- reading behaviour
- engagement patterns

The result: the articles most likely to matter to you rise to the top automatically.

🔒 Privacy First — No Servers, No Accounts

Everything stays in your browser:
- followed sources
- reading history
- taste profile
- preferences

No accounts. No analytics. No tracking.
- PaperWeight stores data locally using Chrome storage. Nothing is sent to PaperWeight servers because there are none.

Outbound requests are limited to:
- RSS feeds you follow
- your chosen AI provider (optional)
- your own Google Apps Script for email digests (optional)

Privacy Policy: paperweight.work/privacy

🏷️ Optional AI Tagging

Without an API key, PaperWeight uses keyword-based tagging.
With your own Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google API key, article titles and snippets are analysed to generate more accurate topic tags and improve recommendations faster.

Only article titles and snippets are sent — never personal browsing data.

📧 Optional Email Digest

Set up a free Google Apps Script in your own Google account to receive weekly reading digests.
PaperWeight generates the digest locally and sends it from your own Gmail account to your own inbox. No PaperWeight infrastructure is involved.

Digests can include:

- top-ranked articles
- grouped newsletters
- AI-generated summaries (with API key enabled)

Technical

Version
1.1.0
Manifest
V3
Size
164KiB
Min Chrome
88
Languages
1
Featured
No

Metadata

ID
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Developer ID
u15cf39da9f0a3c76d1f5653649e51c9b
Developer Email
[email protected]
Created
May 8, 2026
Last Updated (Store)
May 20, 2026
Last Scraped
Jun 7, 2026
Website
paperweight.work
Support URL

Data sourced from the Chrome Web Store · last verified Jun 7, 2026.