The magical thing about eesel is that it works with anything in the browser - a niche app, your internal tool and even websites like Wikipedia. eesel comes with a set of default apps like Google Docs or Notion, but you can add new apps to track more pages in eesel. Let's see how to do that.
1. Open a document or page from the app you want to add
In this example, I'll add Wikipedia to eesel. So I first open a Wikipedia page:
2. Open eesel
While on this page, I open eesel with the shortcut (by default cmd-e on Chrome for Mac, ctrl-shift-e on Chrome for Windows, cmd-shift-1 on Firefox for Mac, or ctrl-shift-1 on Firefox for Windows). I can also click the eesel button next to the address bar of the browser (on Chrome this button might be hidden under the 'puzzle' button next to the address bar):
3. Open "Add an app"
I click on the + icon under the eesel search bar, and select "Add an app":
4. Search for what you want to add
On this screen, I search for what I want to add to eesel. The page I'm currently on is the first suggestion, and that's exactly what we want in this case:
I click on the suggestion, and my app is added 🥳
The weird url pattern you see is just the 'app rule'. You can learn more about that here but you probably don't need to change anything - the default set up is often good enough.
5. Check that everything is working
If you close settings, you'll now see your new app appear in eesel. You can filter to see all docs tracked for this app, and search for them from eesel:
If you can’t find a page that should be there, or if there are pages that you don't want to show in eesel, you may need to tweak your app rules.
The next pages you open from this app will also start showing in eesel automatically.