Home and Reading Articles

Home is where your daily reading starts. Tap any article to open the article view, designed for comfortable long-form reading.

Home

The sections on Home, and their order, vary slightly with your Design (see Design and Appearance):

• Masthead — the app name and today's date at the top. Editorial also shows the motto "YucDu's Digital Garden"; Lifestyle greets you with "Good morning", "Good afternoon" or "Good evening" depending on the time of day.
• Search field — Calm Reading and Lifestyle show a Search articles field below the masthead, and every design has a magnifying-glass button at the top right. Either one takes you to the Search tab.
• Continue Reading — articles you're partway through; tap one to keep reading.
• Featured — a large image of the most recently published article (not an editor's pick). The default Calm Reading design has no featured image and starts straight with the article list.
• Latest articles — sorted by publish date; more load automatically when you reach the bottom. Depending on the design, the section is titled New, Latest Articles or Pick Up.
• Recent Reading — up to 10 articles you've opened recently.
• Browse by Category — shortcuts to the categories with the most articles (up to 8). Tap one to see its articles.
• Picks by Category — in Editorial, Lifestyle and Indigo, the loaded articles are grouped by category, and each group scrolls sideways.

note

Some small section labels (for example LATEST, RECENTLY READ and CATEGORIES) always appear in English, whatever your language. That's part of the design.

Quick tips:

• Pull to refresh — pull down at the top of Home to get the latest articles.
• Quick save — tap the heart on an article card to save it without opening the article.

Display styles

In Settings > Appearance > Display Style, you can change how article lists look:

Display Style	Look
C Card (default)	Cards with cover images. With the Calm Reading design, this becomes a text-first list.
B Magazine	Large numbers with bold Mincho headlines; the numbers use your theme color.
A Minimal	Hairline dividers and no images (images are hidden in the Library too).

The article view

When you open an article, you'll see:

• Category and date — the category is labeled in your highlight color above the title, along with the publish date.
• Reading info — estimated reading time (for example "5 min read") and length (for example "3200 characters"). On extra-wide screens, an Article Info panel also appears on the right.
• Author — tap the author to open the author page (see below).
• Body — images, lists, quotes, tables and code are rendered natively, along with common blog layouts such as speech bubbles, steps, FAQs, title boxes, buttons, blog cards, link lists and galleries.
• Tags — shown as "#tag" at the bottom of the article; tap one to browse articles with the same tag. Articles without tags show their category instead.
• Previous / Next — shown within the 20 most recent articles; older articles may not show them.
• Related Articles — up to 3 other recent articles from the same category.

While you're reading, the tab bar at the bottom hides so you can focus.

Top toolbar

Button	What it does
Table of Contents (list icon)	Opens the table of contents; tap a heading to jump to that section. On iPad and other wide screens, the table of contents stays open on the left, so this button isn't shown.
Favorite (heart)	Saves or removes the article from your favorites.
Aa	Changes the font size (S Small, M Medium, L Large).
Share	Shares the article (see below).

Reading progress and Continue Reading

• A thin progress bar at the very top fills as you scroll.
• When you reopen an article you're partway through, a button such as Continue Reading 62% appears at the bottom. Tap it to jump back to where you left off; it disappears once you start scrolling yourself.

Code and forms

• Code blocks have a Copy button at the top right that copies the whole snippet.
• Forms that can't be sent from the app show "This form can't be submitted in the app. Please open it in your browser."

YouTube videos

YouTube videos aren't played inside the app. Instead you'll see a card with an Open Video button, which opens the video in the YouTube app or your browser.

Image viewer

Tap any image in an article to view it full screen:

• Swipe left or right to move between the images in the same article.
• Pinch to zoom (up to 4×), then drag to move around.
• Double-tap to reset the image to its original size.
• Tap the button at the top left to close.

Sharing an article

Tap the share button at the top right and choose:

• LINE, X, Threads or Facebook (opens the share page in that app or your browser)
• Copy Link
• More (opens the iOS share sheet so you can share to other apps)

Site links and going back

• Links to yucdu.com inside articles open right in the app on the matching article or page; links to other websites open in Safari or another system app.
• If a yucdu.com link can't be matched inside the app, you'll see "This link can't be opened in the app" with an Open in Browser button.
• To go back, tap the back button at the top left or swipe right from the left edge of the screen.

Author page

Tap the author in an article to open their page, with their photo, bio, website or social links, and their other articles.

When something fails to load or isn't available

• If an article fails to load, tap Try Again.
• When you open an article, the app first checks for the latest version, and you may briefly see "Checking the latest version and availability…".
• If an article has been unpublished, you'll see "This content isn’t available right now." and "It may have been unpublished or restricted. Your favorites and reading history are kept."
• If you're offline and have opened the article before, its saved offline copy is shown automatically; you may also see a Read Offline Copy button. See Library: Favorites, History and Offline Reading.