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+# Bang Navigator - A Privacy-Focused Browser for Kagi
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+Welcome to the GitHub repository of Bang Navigator, a privacy-centric search and research browser designed to enhance your mobile search experience while ensuring your personal data and identity remains secure. Built with Flutter, Bang Navigator offers a seamless and intuitive interface across both Android and iOS devices, integrating the powerful tools of Kagi Search Engine.
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+## Features
+
+Bang Navigator is packed with a variety of features aimed at improving usability and maintaining privacy:
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+- **Cross-Platform Support**: Developed using Flutter, ensuring a consistent and smooth experience on both Android and iOS.
+- **Native Browser Engine**: Utilizes the native browser engine of the device for optimal performance and compatibility.
+- **Privacy by Default**: Incognito mode is enabled by default to keep your searches and browsing history private.
+- **Full Browser Functionality**: Includes all the essential features of a basic browser to browse the web efficiently.
+- **Kagi Integration**: Seamlessly integrates Kagi's search, assistant, and summarizer tools within a user-friendly interface.
+- **Easy Sharing**: Share URLs or text from any app directly into Bang Navigator without the need to copy and paste, for direct use with summarizer/assistant.
+- **Quick Summarization**: Long press any link on a website to get a summary via Kagi's summarizer.
+- **Enhanced Text Interaction**: Custom context menu allows for easy passage of marked text to Kagi's search or assistant tools.
+- **Home Widget**: Includes a home screen widget for quick actions, enhancing productivity.
+- **Speech Input**: Supports voice commands for hands-free operation and accessibility.
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+## Getting Started
+
+To get started with Bang Navigator, simply grab the latest [release](https://github.com/FaFre/bang_navigator/releases).
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+For now, there are only Android builds provided.
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+Then obtain your Session Link (see [Kagi's Docs](https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/private-browser-sessions.html#obtaining-a-session-link) for details), and paste the link into the field on the settings page.
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+<img height="500" alt="Settings Page" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FaFre/bang_navigator/main/assets/screenshots/settings.png">
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+## Quickstart guide
+
+### Kagi Tools
+
+<img height="500" alt="Kagi Tools" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FaFre/bang_navigator/main/assets/screenshots/kagi_tools.png">
+
+Access Kagi's comprehensive suite of tools directly through the three-dots menu or seamlessly integrate content by sharing it from another app. This feature allows for a fluid transition between your external content and Kagi's powerful search and assistant functionalities.
+
+### Home Widget
+
+<img height="500" alt="Home Widget" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FaFre/bang_navigator/main/assets/screenshots/home_widget.png">
+
+The Home Widget provides quick access to key features right from your home screen.
+
+### Highlight
+
+<img height="500" alt="Highlight Actions" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FaFre/bang_navigator/main/assets/screenshots/highlight_actions.png">
+
+Easily highlight text within Bang Navigator to instantly search or generate prompts. This feature simplifies the process of querying or interacting with text-based content on the web.
+
+### Tabs
+
+<img height="500" alt="Tabs" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FaFre/bang_navigator/main/assets/screenshots/tabs.png">
+
+Manage multiple browsing sessions effortlessly with the tabbed browsing feature. 
+
+### Link Actions
+
+<img height="500" alt="Link Actions" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FaFre/bang_navigator/main/assets/screenshots/title_actions.png">
+
+Interact with links through long-press or by tapping on the title to open a context-specific actions menu. This feature enhances navigation efficiency and provides quick access to a range of options like direct summarization or sharing.