In the meantime you can use the “Add Content” option in Feedly and just type in, or copy and paste in, the address of a blog or website that you would like to follow. However when you click on most of these buttons on websites, Feedly is not listed as one of the options for subscribing. If you’re not familiar with electronic feeds, you subscribe to them using the orange buttons (like the one pictured here) found on many websites. At this point it might be too late to import any of your old Google Reader data into Feedly, however Google’s official message is that your Reader data will not be “permanently and irrevocably” deleted until July 15, 2013. If you’ve been wondering what to use for a replacement for Google Reader, I would certainly check out Feedly. Yup, I can just see things better in Feedly. The “Card” option almost looks like Pinterest! I like to keep Feedly on the “Title” view which shows just the name of the blog posts (like in the screenshots above), but there are other fun options that display pictures too. This lets you move through things at a nice fast pace. AND, when you do that, it automatically pops to the next category on the list. Sometimes you don’t really have time to read all the blogs you follow and with Feedly there’s a nice big ole check mark at the bottom of the page so you can just mark the whole category as “Read”. You’d be surprised over time how many people stop writing their blogs. With Feedly I was able to clean out some of the dead wood. Even when I thought I had deleted a blog’s feed that I no longer wanted to follow, it would just keep reappearing. This was one thing that bugged me with Google Reader. The categories display on the left side (same as Google Reader did). It’s definitely worth the time to set up some categories to organize the blogs you follow and Feedly has a very user friendly way to get that done. Here are a few things that are getting the thumbs up from me now that I’ve made the switch to Feedly. I’m now using Feedly and I think I might even like it better (true!) I moped around for several weeks trying to figure out what to do, BUT – I’ve finally found a substitute for Google Reader that I’m really liking (a lot!) so I thought I would share. So what are we to do now? Is there a good replacement for Google Reader? It was a great organizing tool to subscribe to the electronic feeds of websites and get the latest updates all in one place.īut as of JGoogle Reader is history. OK, maybe that’s not the reason, but it doesn’t make much sense to the millions of its users (me included) who had been using Google Reader for years to follow and organize the latest posts from our favorite blogs. This article was originally published on BGR.Today I’m switching gears a little bit and instead of sharing a recipe we’re going to look at another topic of great importance. Vote in the poll below and if your new feed reader isn’t listed among the options, let us know the name of the service you picked in the comments section. There are certainly plenty of great services out there to choose from and we want to know which one is your new RSS reader of choice. AOL’s new reader is getting some buzz as well, as is a forthcoming option called Digg Reader from Digg-owner Betaworks. BGR published our list of the five best Google Reader alternatives last week, and most of the chatter we’ve seen revolves around just a few of the five we mentioned. Google’s feed reader has been the go-to option for RSS-based news consumption for years, and now users who have relied on Google Reader will have to look elsewhere to stay on top of new content from their favorite websites. As has been the case for more than one out of every three Google services that have ever existed, Google Reader will be shut down in less than a week.
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