Cortex Makes Sharing Pages, Images, and Videos from Chrome a Two-Second Process

Chrome: There are buttons and bookmarks you can click to share links, images, and videos, but the Cortex extension makes them seem so slow. Click and hold for half a second, and you can share to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, or Instapaper.


Video courtesy of Good Morning Geek.

You have to set up your sharing networks in the settings for Cortex, but after that, it's really a single click to send neat stuff out to your social networks. You do get to choose specific Facebook friends to send to, if you'd like, and you can type out a pretext for your Twitter or Tumblr entries. Instapaper just stashes away the link for reading in your queue.

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Does it bump up against your other click-and-hold routines? Maybe, sometimes. Having it installed for an hour, I discovered that when clicking to select text, or drag images or links to the desktop, I usually move faster than the half-second delay that activates Cortex. If you're the same way, Cortex could be a really handy way to send stuff out. Then again, there's something to be said for giving your social sharing a second's thought.

Cortex is a free extension for Chrome browsers on all systems. It supports four networks at the moment, but the developer's images imply more options are coming in the near future.

Cortex [Chrome Web Store]



This is kinda cool but anyone else find that there's no need for extensions to do all this stuff when a simple bookmarklet works just fine? Sidebar for example instantly shortens the link and share with facebook and Twitter.


Stuff like Instapaper and Read It Later have perfectly sufficient bookmarklets as well.