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Tools I use: A close look at Feedly

Started by mathewi · 9 months ago

A feed reader is a pretty personal thing for a lot of people, including me. It’s one of the main ways that I collect information — along with things like Twitter and FriendFeed and Techmeme and so on — and so I’m pretty particular about what I use, ... Continue reading »

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  • Edwin Khodabakchian

    9 months ago

    Mathew: thank you for the post. If you ever run into a problem and need tech support or need to report a bug we listen at http://www.getsatisfaction.com/feedly and on twitter at @feedly
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  • mathewi

    9 months ago

    Thanks, Edwin. I will definitely keep that in mind. Great app.
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  • Nico

    9 months ago

    Mathew, thanks for this! Have been using Google Reader for years. Just installed feedly, and it looks really cool.
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  • Luca

    9 months ago

    Matthew, this extension rocks. Thanks, I'm addicted already!
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  • Scott

    9 months ago

    Thanks for the post, gonna have to try that sucker out.
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  • markmckay

    9 months ago

    I checked it out, and while its pretty, I don't really find that it is an effective way for me to read my feeds. Google Reader might not be as beautiful, but I like that I can see them all in a list and have the ability expand/collapse and star/share them all in one page.

    I guess my reading habits are more geared to consuming tons of headlines then reading individual articles.
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  • mathewi

    9 months ago

    That's a fair point, Mark. It definitely slows things down a bit, and if you really want to just cruise through a pile of feeds quickly then Google Reader's interface is pretty good for that -- which is why I still go back there from time to time when I'm in a hurry. But if I have some time, I prefer Feedly's interface. I guess it's like a magazine vs. a newswire.
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  • markmckay

    9 months ago

    Totally.
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  • dccrowley

    9 months ago

    I have found feedly to really up my read intake. Google reader really is too plain. But then so is nearly everything from Google. I mean Apple is clean and simple but not plain.
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  • Bill Dunphy

    9 months ago

    Hey Matthew,
    I'm a big fan of Feedly as well and it took a bit before I finally realized what I like about it - serendipity.
    If you have (and I KNOW you have) more feeds than you can reasonably expect to read in any one day or week, even the fabulous efficiency of Google Reader's keystroke commands aren't enough to let you get through it all.
    Feedly does a couple of interesting things here.
    It treats that vast pool of posts from your feed as a rich source of valuable content (which it is if you've been choosing wisely) and serves up a personal magazine with an amazingly low signal to noise ratio. (Damn, do I have that backwards?) If your pool is deep enough serendipty results, I think.
    And lastly having Feedly results appear in my Google search is brilliant.
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  • mathewi

    9 months ago

    Those are both good points, Bill -- and I totally agree. Serendipity is a good word, and I like the Feedly results in Google search as well.
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