Power-ups

Power-ups add extra behavior to individual saved links. Right-click any saved link and choose Power-ups to see what’s available.

Auto-update Link (Beta)

Auto-update Link makes a saved link follow you as you progress through episodic content - anime, manga, web serials, courses, multi-page articles. Instead of saving “Episode 1” and updating it manually as you watch, you save it once and SupaSidebar advances the link as you go.

How it works

1. Open the page you want to follow (e.g. example.com/anime/some-show/episode/12)
2. Save it to SupaSidebar
3. Right-click the saved link and choose Power-ups - Auto-update link
4. A popover appears with every number in the URL highlighted as a token. Pick the one that represents the episode or chapter (in the example above, 12)
5. Done - SupaSidebar now stores the URL as a template like example.com/anime/some-show/episode/{N} and watches for you to navigate forward in that browser

When you visit a new URL that matches the template (e.g. episode 13, then 14), the saved link updates automatically. The next time you click it, you go to where you left off.

Episode kind

SupaSidebar derives the episode kind (“Ep”, “Ch”, “Part”, “Lesson”, etc.) from the words just before the number in the URL, and shows it as a small badge on the link.

URLs without numbers

Some sites don’t put the episode in the URL (paths like /watch with the episode in a query parameter, or single-page apps). For those, Auto-update falls back to a path-prefix mode: SupaSidebar updates the link whenever you navigate within the same site section, with no badge.

Update timing

The link updates after 60 seconds of continuous time on a new page. This avoids churning the saved link while you’re scrubbing through pages or skipping episodes - the link only advances to pages you actually settled on.

History

Right-click the saved link and open Power-ups - History to see the last 20 URLs the link has pointed at. Click any entry to jump back to a previous episode without losing your current position.

Per-device flag, synced URL

The Auto-update flag itself is stored locally - turning it on for a link on one Mac doesn’t enable it on another. The URL the link points at, however, syncs across devices through iCloud as usual, so progress made on one Mac is reflected on all of them when you next click the link.

Disabling Auto-update

Right-click the link and choose Power-ups - Auto-update link again to toggle it off. The link keeps whatever URL it’s currently pointing at - it just stops advancing.

Open Next episode

Once a link has Auto-update enabled in template mode (with a tracked number), the link’s right-click menu adds a third action after Open and Open With: Open Next episode. It opens the next-numbered URL (current episode + 1) using the same routing as a regular sidebar click - any matching Air Traffic Control open route or per-space default browser applies. The saved link itself stays untouched, and the regular 60-second dwell rule still decides when it advances.

Beside the action, a small inline tag shows whether the next episode is reachable: checking… while SupaSidebar runs a quick request, then live or not live so you know before you click. If the check times out or errors, the tag drops silently rather than mislead.

This is the fastest way to “peek ahead” to the next episode without waiting for the auto-update to catch up after you watch it.

Tips

• Auto-update is great for ongoing content (currently airing anime, in-progress courses) where the URL pattern is predictable
• Pair it with Pinned Links so your “currently watching” show is always one click away and always on the right episode
• If a site changes its URL structure mid-series, the saved link stops advancing - just re-open the popover and pick the new number token