Hello @vicente I have contacted paperpile two times of the past year regarding this feature. Could we please receive at least a status update including an actual timeline for the Safari Extension? Personally, this is starting to become a deal breaker given that so many other similar programs have this capability. Thank you.
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Apologies for the radio silence here – very poor support/communication on my part alone. The bulk of our resources has been and continues to be focused toward this goal. I delayed an update hoping to have news to share by now; even though we’ve been in final stages for months, complications of various kinds have kept forcing our schedule to be pushed back. This is a critical juncture for us which will set the stage of all future development, so it is essential we get it right. Delivering an excellent, functional product to the community will always be our priority.
With little more to say in terms of updates for now, we can only once again ask for your patience and understanding in this matter. Rather than posting promise dates we’re unable to keep, I promise to check in here every couple weeks even if there aren’t relevant updates from the team.
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Hi all! Quick check-in: it seems the team has overcome the latest set of obstacles found so we’re once again getting close to a first release. I should have another update by the beginning of next month, will be back here then 
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I gave up. I do not use Chrome any more. I moved to a Edge. Paperpile works well with Edge!
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How are things going? We are approaching the end of May
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Things are looking good – last week I was shown a raw demo of some of the new features. Still a couple issues to deal with, and finishing touches to make things suitable for an initial (very limited) release, but I dare say we’re less than a month out. Will touch base again here before then.
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Would love to alpha/beta test the new extension. I’ve been waiting for this feature for a couple of years now.
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woot! glad to see progress 
Great news! Happy to test!
Welcome the opportunity to test. Thanks for putting in the hard yards to make this happen 
Looking fwd to this update !
Appreciate the update. I’m happy to test as well!
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Counting down the days.
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Hi @vicente,
Any updates regarding the status of the safari extension and I assume the new front end?
As an aside, I am curious as to current status of plans for integration with note management platforms like Obsidian, notion, roam or logseq is envisioned. I recognize paperpile did a survey in 2020, but the PKM scene has significantly evolved since then.
Paperpile continues to have advantages for an integrated workflow thanks to ability to link to papers (if sadly not annotations or pdfs), but I hope development prioritizes further integration rather than siloed note management functionalities within PP- that ship has probably sailed.
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+1 As someone who would be hopeless without Obsidian and Notion to organize ideas and keep track of references, this is the one feature aside from Safari support that would greatly improve usability.
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Thanks all who have chimed in here! My last projection was a bit overly enthusiastic. We have just started testing beyond the dev team (just a couple colleagues and myself) and I’m afraid there are still some considerable issues to be dealt with before releasing to users. I’ve added everybody who has expressed interest in testing here to the list of beta testers. Will post an update next month.
@heumed, @Caroline_Ahn, plans for integration with other note managers are still solid (as posted on our roadmap, along with the surveys) and will be prioritized once the current updates are implemented by the end of this year.
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This thread is honestly ridiculous, it started nearly 6 years ago! Since then Paperpile hasn’t progressed as fast as you’d expect from a paid service. Its greatest strength, i.e. working with google docs and chrome, has become its biggest weakness due largely to how bad chrome has gotten over the last 6 years. But also, to how slowly the paperpile team has reacted. There’s really no benefit in using a tightly well integrated tool, if it means that my laptop doesn’t survive long enough for me to get the job done.
One final issue I am finding now that we are flying again, is that while google docs work offline, paperpile doesn’t. So after weighing my options, I am seriously considering other alternatives to switch to, albeit less well integrated with google docs.
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@Yassine_Souilmi – we share your frustration about our progress, which has not been nearly as fast or as logical as we’ve intended it to be. The main benefit of implementing this rewrite the team has been working on (besides Safari support and performance improvements) is that it will provide a much more efficient platform for both troubleshooting and further development.
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Any update?
Current expectation is to have a private beta out after the summer (September-October) – will post here if that estimate changes, but things are looking on track. We (non-dev team members) are already testing some of the available features internally 
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