Google Reader is the sole one I have used for at least a year. Not everybody will agree with my choice, but its easy and simple interface was possibly the reason I stayed with it for this long.
There are lots of tactics for the average reader to customize their Google Reader experience. These are some examples: Change Google Reader to fit your Aesthetics Though there aren't a lot of visible settings you can change inside Google Reader itself, there are numerous available skins and Firefox add-ons that will do this for you. One of them is Better Greader by Gina Trapani. It permits you to view pages inline, which isn't practical for netbooks but looks great on bigger monitors. It also incorporates one or two minimalist skins, including the surprising Helvetireader. If you are acquainted with CSS, you can take it a step farther and change Helvetireader yourself.
For those that wish to have a darker look, check out Google Reworked. I try the Trends section of Google Reader. It is a straightforward way to test the feeds that do not read frequently. Under the Subscription Trends section, you may also show the most inactive feeds, as well as the most often updated ones. This lets you remove feeds from defunct blogs, or from blogs that update more frequently than you like. Streamlining your subscriptions with information from Google Reader Trends can tell you lots about your feed reading habits. This suggests that you can be assessing subscriptions based totally on facts instead of the hope of I am sure sometime I will get some interest / price out of this feed. Process Your Reading List Quicker by Starring Google Reader has a Starred Items feature that lets you fasten a star to significant items. Rather than using this feature to have a lengthy repository of previously-read posts, you may use this it to hurry up your processing time inside Google Reader. This is how I do it:
- I view my new reading items under all Items; and select the List by default.
- Looking at all of the listed titles, I star each item that I wish to read completely. Then, I click Mark all as read.
- I'm going to the Starred Items section and read each item one at a time, un-starring them as I am going along. With this practice I'll regularly finish reading my whole list in one short sitting, or I will go back and read them later when I have spare time. And when I am going back, I haven't got to sieve thru other unread items that I already processed earlier in the day.
