Google has launched a brand new sidebar characteristic to Chrome, which helps you to shortly entry your bookmarks and studying checklist whereas utilizing the desktop model of the browser (via 9to5Google). Previously, the studying checklist’s essential house was as a button on the bookmark bar, which not everybody has enabled.

Clicking the aspect panel button, which seems to be like a rectangle with a shaded portion on the suitable aspect, will present or cover the panel. Once you’ve acquired it open, you possibly can entry the identical studying checklist capabilities that had been out there within the previous UI, together with the flexibility so as to add the web page you’re at the moment on to your checklist, mark gadgets as learn, or take away them. You may swap over to the bookmarks tab to browse your saved pages.

It’s a pleasant change for many who need quick access to their studying checklist and bookmarks with out essentially wanting an ever-present bookmark bar. Clicking on the button brings up the sidebar, set to whichever tab you left it on final, after which you possibly can simply cover it again away whenever you get to the web site you need. The studying checklist needs to be out there if you happen to’re utilizing the most recent Chrome 99 replace.

P.S. — if you happen to’re like one Verge employees member and dislike the aspect panel, you possibly can flip it off by going to chrome://flags/ and looking out “side panel.” Then, set the #side-panel characteristic to disabled. After you re-launch chrome, the studying checklist will once more be its personal button on the bookmarks bar.