Comments on: Google Reader gets a small but useful tweak

By: Alex Leonard

Alex Leonard — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:27:29 +0000

I've set up the plugin mentioned above, and you can see it in action over at http://alex.leonard.ie/pastic... It looks pretty good and is easily styled. One minor issue seems to be that it's not picking up the date correctly. I'm sure that will be easily fixed.

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[...] by John Braine who recently pointed out his use of some Google Reader widgets to publish his shared items from his feedreader, I’ve [...]

By: Alex Leonard

Alex Leonard — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:06:23 +0000

Aye, I'm only using the view unread items. It is very nice to have such a variety of methods to display stuff.

I think I'm used to using list view because I've had such a variety of shitty net connections that using expanded view resulted in mongo slow load times.

Thanks for pointing out the links page you've got set up. Prompted me to have a look for a WordPress plugin that might do something like this, and lo and behold there is one:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recommended-r…

I'll get this working when I get a bit of spare time

By: John Braine

John Braine — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:44:39 +0000

It's good that there is so many ways to set it up. But I rarely use list view. I use expanded view, and when I have a load of items, I just click view all, and then just whack through them all quickly by hitting J. I also use only display updated/unread items, everything else disappears, so a folder wouldn't really work for me. If I have no unread I don't even see any folders. I find this a lifesaver, couldn't use reader without that setup. While we're at it; My favourite reader feature, is sharing out folders, and then using the bit of code it gives you to automatically create links pages / blogroll from your reader. Anything i add to a folder automatically gets added to this page: http://www.johnbraine.com/links

By: Alex Leonard

Alex Leonard — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:36:29 +0000

I assume this is from browsing in expanded view?

I always use the list view which generally makes it easier to keep stuff unread, although I guess if you refresh and go back over something it'd be marked read again.

You could set up a tag like 'read later' and tag stuff that you want to read properly later. Then you just need to remember to look at that tag when you have a bit of spare time.

I say this like it's a good idea, but, well I have it set up but never remember to use it…

By: John Braine

John Braine — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:29:25 +0000

Yep my favourite reader too. What I'd love is a *hard* keep unread. So scrolling down quickly won't mark it as read. When I'm using google reader on my phone I mark something as unread and it stays that way until I mark as read. But on the regular reader stuff becomes marked as read again, and disappears way to easily.

By: Alex Leonard

Alex Leonard — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:52:19 +0000

Aye, it's baffled me somewhat. Even if there was the ability to "Mark all as read" from a search query, that would be a start, but that functionality isn't in place. They could even set it up so that filtered items were placed into a special filter folder so that you could quickly scan through it every once in a while in the same way you might double check your spam folder in Gmail.

By: Charles H. Gund

Charles H. Gund — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:41:46 +0000

I don't understand why filters aren't implemented yet, it's such an important aspect of a feed reader…

Can't they just modify the gmail code slightly?