01 May2013
My Feelings about Feedly
In my last post, I shared the news of Google Reader’s retirement on July 1 and suggested Flipboard as a possible replacement. Feedly is next up at bat and it certainly doesn’t strike out. Here are a few things I like about Feedly:- It was easy to sync with my Google Reader account. I just entered my Google password and allowed Feedly access to it.
- In addition to the mobile apps, Feedly has a Chrome extension for reading from a desktop or laptop. The Chrome extension has a great interface for organizing feeds and has several viewing options.
- It looks and feels similar to Google Reader, so there is not much of a learning curve.
- The mobile app has day and night themes.
- The mobile app opens web pages within Feedly and there is a tool to “remove clutter” that cleans up much of the web page content except for the blog post text.
- The Android “back” button often closes the app, whereas it would return to the list of feeds in Google Reader. It’s just something I’ll have to get used to.
- The shortened URLs start with feedly.com, making them slightly longer than bit.ly and Flipboard’s flip.it.