Microsoft brings Collections feature to Edge Canary

Microsoft demoed several features that are coming to the Chromium Edge browser at Build 2019 event, Collections is one of them. The feature is now available behind a flag in latest Edge Canary 78.0.250.1 for testing.

Collections feature now available in Edge browser

What are Collections? How the feature can be useful?

Collections help to turn the overwhelming of information available on the web and in your tabs and windows into an actionable one. The feature uses “Cloud featured intelligence and an intuitive interface to help you collect, organize and share content” as you browse content on the web.

Microsoft says by offering “intelligent export to apps like Word and Excel preserves the logical structure of your content, so you can turn loose paragrpahs into a handout with citations, or turn a shoppign list into a spreadsheet sortable by price”.

Collections feature for Edge is now available in latest Canary build in edge://flags page with flag name “Experimental collections feature”, offers this descritption:

“Enable content collection pane and background entity extraction to support web content collection and organization scenarios.” The flag warns the content will not be synced and may be lost”

To Enable the feature which is still in the experimental phase,

1. Load edge://flags/#edge-collections,

2. Select “Enabled” and restart the browser.

You’ll see collections icon on the toolbar, click on it and start adding content.

You can also right click on a web page, hover over “add page to collections > New Collection or Start a New Collection.

You can add a note to an item in Collection and also share it to apps available for export such as Excel. Number of Collections you’ve created or added so far can be seen by clicking the icon on the toolbar.

The feature looks promising and could be useful for students, bloggers to grab all pieces of information they found on the web for a particular subject into a single piece. What do you say?