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When readers get near the end, suggest what to read next: a corner card, a bottom bar with reading progress, a “Keep reading” window, a bottom sheet, an edge tab or a small “Up next” pill. Or show the picks right in the page. Readers can save stories for later, stories they already read are skipped, and an optional countdown opens the next one.

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NEWS SITE · CORNER CARD

Scroll through the article below. Past the middle, a “Read next” card slides into the corner; scroll back up and it tucks away. Leave the article and it hides.

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↓Keep scrolling — watch the bottom-right corner.

City news

The riverside trail finally connects downtown to the lake

After six years of planning, the last half-mile opened this morning. Here’s what changes for walkers, cyclists and the shops along the way.

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The ribbon was cut a little after 7 a.m., and by 7:15 there were already joggers on the new boardwalk. For the first time, you can walk or bike from Main Street to Lakeside Park without crossing a single road.

The final stretch runs under the rail bridge and along the old mill race, a section that was closed to the public for more than forty years. The city replaced the crumbling bank with a wide gravel path, three lookout decks and a row of native plantings.

What it means for your commute

City planners expect about 1,200 trips a day once the weather warms up. Bike parking at both ends has doubled, and the downtown bus stop now has a covered rack for twelve bikes.

“We kept hearing the same thing: people wanted to get to the lake without a car. Now they can.”

Shop owners along Water Street are cautiously hopeful. A bakery near the trailhead started opening an hour earlier this week, and the bike shop across the street is adding weekend rentals.

Lights, dogs and the rules

The trail is open from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. and is lit the whole way. Dogs are welcome on a leash, e-bikes are allowed at walking speed on the boardwalk, and the lookout decks are first come, first served.

A small opening festival is planned for Saturday afternoon, with food trucks at the lake end and a guided nature walk leaving from the library at 2 p.m.

This news story and its quotes are fictional. The suggested stories are real posts from this site.

MAGAZINE · BOTTOM BAR

A slim bar rises from the bottom as soon as the reader starts the long read. Its top edge fills up as they read, and it always shows the next story with a save button.

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↓Start reading — the bar comes up from the bottom and fills as you go.

The long read

The last typewriter repair shop in Ohio

For fifty-one years, one small shop has kept the machines running. Business has never been better.

9 min read · Example article

The bell over the door still works. It rings twice when you come in — once for the door, once because the frame is a little crooked — and the owner looks up from a machine he has had in pieces since Tuesday.

He was nineteen when he started sweeping floors here. The shop has moved once, changed its name twice and outlived every one of its competitors in the state.

A waiting list, in 2026

These days there is a six-week waiting list. Students bring in their grandparents’ machines. Writers mail them from across the country. A film studio once rented forty of them for a single scene.

“People don’t want it because it’s old. They want it because it doesn’t ping.”

The parts are the hard part. Most come from machines too far gone to save, carefully taken apart and sorted into hundreds of labeled drawers along the back wall.

Teaching the next person

Two apprentices now work three days a week. One came from a bicycle shop, the other from a watch repair course. Both say the same thing: you learn to listen before you learn to fix.

When we left, the machine from Tuesday was back together. He fed in a sheet of paper, typed a single line, and read it back out loud. Then he rang the bell on the counter, just to hear it.

The shop and article are fictional.

BLOG · END OF ARTICLE

Place the widget at the end of the post. When the reader gets there, a window suggests three stories and counts down to the first one, like the next episode on a streaming app. Hover pauses it; Cancel stops it.

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↓Read to the end of this post — the “Keep reading” window opens there. (It shows once per visit.)

Work smarter

The two-list method that finally fixed my to-do list

One list for today, one for everything else. It sounds too simple to work. It works.

4 min read · Example article

For years my to-do list was one long scroll. Every morning I would read the whole thing, feel bad about most of it, and then start on whatever was easiest.

List one: today

Every evening I pick three things for tomorrow — never more than three — and write them on a sticky note. That note is the only list I look at during the day.

List two: everything else

Everything else lives in a second list I only open on Friday afternoons. Ideas, errands, someday projects. Out of sight until the week is done.

Three things a day adds up to about sixty things a month. That’s more than I ever finished before.

The surprise was how much calmer the mornings got. There is no decision to make. The note is already there, and it is short.

The article is fictional. The suggested stories are real posts from this site.

TRAVEL BLOG · BOTTOM SHEET

A frosted sheet rises with five photo cards you can scroll sideways — perfect for “where to next?” after a travel story.

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↓Scroll to the second half of this story.

Weekend trip

Three days on Emerald Lake, no plan required

We packed light, rented a canoe and let the weather decide the rest.

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The lake is the color the name promises. It’s at its best just after sunrise, when the water is still and the first canoes are only just leaving the dock.

Day one: the water

We rented a canoe for the whole weekend — $45 a day at the lodge — and paddled the north shore to a small beach you can only reach by boat.

Day two: the trail

The lakeshore loop is 3.2 miles and mostly flat. Go clockwise in the morning so the sun is behind you for the photos everyone takes at the halfway bridge.

Bring a jacket. Even in July, the evenings by the water get cold fast.

Day three: slow

On the last day we did almost nothing, which turned out to be the best plan of all: coffee on the dock, a long lunch and one last paddle before the drive home.

The article is fictional. The suggested stories are real posts from this site.

TECH BLOG · EDGE TAB

A small tab slides out from the edge of the screen. Readers open it when they are ready; closing it tucks it back.

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↓Keep reading — look for the tab on the right edge of the screen.

How-to

Your first home server, explained in plain English

What it is, what it costs and the three things we would set up first.

7 min read · Example article

A home server is just a small computer that stays on. It sits in a closet, uses about as much power as a light bulb and quietly does jobs for everyone in the house.

What it costs

A used mini PC is enough for most families — usually $120 to $200. Add a second hard drive for backups and you are done.

The first three things to set up

Automatic photo backup from everyone’s phones. A shared folder for family documents. And an ad blocker for the whole network, which is the one everyone notices first.

Start with one job. Get it working. Then add the next.

The hardest part is not the setup, it’s remembering the password. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe that isn’t the server itself.

The article is fictional. The suggested stories are real posts from this site.

LIFESTYLE BLOG · “UP NEXT” PILL

A little pill drops in under the menu with a reading-progress ring and the next story — the lightest touch of all.

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↓Start reading — the pill appears at the top of the screen.

At home

Sunday reset: one hour that makes the whole week easier

Not a cleaning marathon. Just six small jobs, in the same order, every Sunday.

4 min read · Example article

We started doing this after a month of Mondays that felt like running to catch a train that had already left. One hour, every Sunday afternoon, with a timer and a playlist.

The six jobs

Clear the kitchen counters. Start one load of laundry. Plan five dinners. Check the calendar. Water the plants. Take out every bin in the house.

The trick is doing them in the same order every time, so there is nothing to decide.

By the time the playlist ends, the house feels lighter — and so does Monday.

The article is fictional. The suggested story is a real post from this site.

IN THE PAGE · NO POP-UP

Five layouts for the bottom of an article or a sidebar: cards, photo cards, one big + list, a list, and a numbered list. Every one has the save button.

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SAVE FOR LATER · READING LIST

Any story can be saved. A floating “Saved” button opens the reader’s list — no account needed, it stays in their browser. Try it on these cards, then open the button in the bottom-left corner.

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Saved stories are kept only in this browser. Nothing is sent to the site.

THREE STEPS

Made for news sites, magazines, blogs, newsletters and knowledge bases.

1

Add it to your post template

Drop the widget into your single-post design once — it works on every article.

2

Pick how it shows

Six pop-up styles or five in-page layouts, five skins, your colors.

3

Choose when

After part of the page, at the end of the article, after some seconds, or when the mouse heads to leave.