Google Reader (RSS client) — it’s excellent

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The Writing ‘Google Reader (RSS client) — it’s excellent’ was added on December 21st, 2006. It's filed under: Design, Google, RSSness.

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A little while back I ranted about the Google RSS client.

Since then, and probably long-since as I have only gone back to look today, Google Reader has entirely changed. It’s lovely. Lovely to the point where I now use it over anything else, even my Mac app’ Newsfire (and I thought that was good).

The Google Reader client is simply excellent in the same way Gmail is excellent.

I have just found lots of good stuff in my same feeds (via a simple OPML list import) that was hidden (to my feeble vision) in my other clients. I take my hat off to the Google Reader team and thank them for letting me get back to enjoying the lightness of an RSS-fed Internet experience.

Alan

Adendum

When you are on the home page, you may get a list of keyboard shortcuts*. Wow! Try typing the letters ‘gt’ or ‘gu’ for lovely web2.0 power. An excellent web application. *Here’s the list:

Tips and tricks

Here are some useful keyboard shortcuts:

* j/k: next/previous item
* space/ + space: next/previous item or page
* n/p: scan down/up (list only)
* o/enter: expand/collapse (list only)
* s: star item
* + s: share item
* v: view original
* t: tag item
* m: mark item as read
* r: refresh
* u: toggle full screen mode
* + a: mark all as read
* 1: switch to expanded view
* 2: switch to list view
* + n/p: next/previous subscription
* + x: expand folder
* + o: open subscription or folder
* g then h: go home
* g then a: go to all items
* g then s: go to starred items
* g then t: open tag selector
* g then u: open subscription selector

Thu Dec 21 2006 at 3:09 pm
Alan

It just got better. Search too now… Mm.
Sat Sep 15 2007 at 11:04 pm

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