Comments on: Using Google Reader and impressed

By: Giuseppe

Giuseppe — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:45:03 +0000

great and helpful stuff. I am also planning to move out of Onfolio (sadly)to get rid of IE (hopefully). But what to do with my old Onfolio collections?

By: L0GiX

L0GiX — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:22:33 +0000

I personally love Google Reader. It handles all my feeds with out a hitch. I've recently started to test out Voice Recognition on Vista and used the vr to navigate through the site. http://blog.l0gix.com/2007/01/17/global-reader-with-voice-recognition/ L0GiX

By: Michael Connick

Michael Connick — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:30:14 +0000

One of the nicest things about GR is how well it works on my Treo 700p as well as my Electrovaya Tablet PC. It’s great to be able to check feeds on the phone!

By: eas

eas — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:37:39 +0000

I was pretty down on Google Reader, but gave it another try once they went more river of news, and I’ve been using it ever since. They even implemented one of my feature requests (though I doubt it had anything to do with me requesting it).

Now if only they’d start using Google News Algorithms to start grouping related stories, that’d be sweet. It would be even sweeter if I could select the feeds used for finding the related stories.

By: Josh Bancroft

Josh Bancroft — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:28:18 +0000

Welcome to the GReader fanclub, James. :-)

I love GReader on my mobile devices – it works great with my Asus UMPC. The page up/page down hardware buttons next to the screen seem like they were made for it.

Here’s a hot tip – there’s an undocumented keyboard shortcut, “u”, to hide the subscription/folder column on the left, making the content full screen. This is fanTAStic for devices like UMPCs with less than huge screen width.

I usually put my browser (Firefox, natch) in full screen (use the awesome Autohide extension!), click on All Items in Google Reader, hit “u” on the (soft) keyboard, and page my way through efficient RSS feed reading bliss. :-)

By: Carsten

Carsten — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:40:08 +0000

Yeah, I switched to GR completely as well since they had implemented the new interface. Before I used different offline readers but there’s always the problem to be in sync on different devices (my Q1 and the desktop mainly). I realized as well that I don’t need to use an offline reader as I’m almost always online anyway when I want access my feeds. And the interface is really well done now!

Actually it’s the same with mail for me. Just use GM now and no offline client any longer…

By: acetuk

acetuk — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:42:50 +0000

Great to see the developers here to get feedback. I tried GR on my Q1 and didn’t like it much but now that I have a P1610 think ill try it again!

By: jk

jk — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:13:28 +0000

Mihai, thanks for reaching out. I have just sent you the file that will not import into GR. Note that this same file has imported successfully into several other readers, Google’s is the only one that has failed.

By: mihai

mihai — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:56:36 +0000

I’m glad you’re liking Reader, hopefully your longer term trial will work out too. I’m sorry to hear that you had OPML import problems with your Onfolio subscriptions. If possible, could you send me the file that had problems and we will do our best to investigate? My address is mihai.parparita at gmail.com.

Mihai Parparita
Google Reader Engineer

By: jk

jk — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:29:12 +0000

Kevin, don’t beat yourself up over it. It was my problem and it took me a few days to come up with this silly scheme that Google should be able to address.

Nitin, thanks for the warning, I’ll keep an eye out for that problem. As for the Fujitsu, every single Tablet PC owning person who played with my P1610 was just blown away at how good the Tablet experience was on such a small device.

Mark, it’s not necessarily better than Bloglines just different. I am not a normal RSS feed consumer- I follow so many feeds that one of the most important features to me is how fast I can spin through hundreds (sometimes thousands) of articles. What is important to me about Google Reader (and formerly Onfolio) is how it automatically marks an item as read without me having to do so manually. It may sound like a small thing but when you skim thousands of items a day it becomes a huge deal. The good thing about GR is it’s free so try it for yourself. Export your feeds from Bloglines and try it for a day or two. I find the GR page layout much easier on the eyes, too.