Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: RSS Readers for Entrepreneurs

2012-06-19 Thread Mak Makielan
Hi Ben I use Mr reader and I love it. It has most of what you want including tagging. It doesn't have checkbox to mark item as read but it does have something called 'mark item read while scrolling' setting which you can enable. It also has usual 'mark all as read' and works with most 'read it la

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: RSS Readers for Entrepreneurs

2012-06-18 Thread Roger Barnes
Hi Ben, > Desktop: (for the heavy lifting) > * Scroll through ~50 headlines at a time, expand what I'm interested in, tag > if I want to. > * Mark the whole page ~50 as read with one button, but not other articles > (ie. those on another page. > This does not work. because pages now scroll infinit

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: RSS Readers for Entrepreneurs

2012-06-18 Thread Ben Sand
Thanks Tom, Those keyboard shortcuts have saved me. Thank you to everyone else for putting up with this indulgence and I hope the tips shared help with productivity for some of you. Workflow I was after: Mobile: (while I've got a few mins to spare somewhere) * Scroll through ~15 headlines at a

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: RSS Readers for Entrepreneurs

2012-06-18 Thread Tom Allen
Ben, Have you ever tried pressing Shift+? in Google Reader? I don't quite get your workflow, but if you generally open a folder and scroll through it reading the headlines, occasionally opening an article, and simultaneously selecting a bunch to mark as read - then maybe you should use the keyboar

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: RSS Readers for Entrepreneurs

2012-06-18 Thread Ben Sand
I've got enough Apple stuff to use a solution dependent on them, but it seems reeder won't do tags. the two features I want most of all: * tags * select multiple and mark as read On 19 June 2012 11:36, Shaon Diwakar wrote: > Hi Ben, > > I'm currently using Reeder (iPhone) and Flipboard (iPad)

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: RSS Readers for Entrepreneurs

2012-06-18 Thread Shaon Diwakar
Hi Ben, I'm currently using Reeder (iPhone) and Flipboard (iPad) with Google Reader integration. Unfortunately, as far as I know, those two applications are not available outside of the Apple ecosystem. Some friends have had success with Pulse on Android tablets. However, Reeder definitely has th

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: RSS Readers for Entrepreneurs

2012-06-17 Thread Roger Barnes
> On 18 June 2012 09:10, Tom Allen wrote: >> Other than that I just stick feeds into categories, and can definitely >> mark all as read, or mark all in a subcategory as read. You're right that it >> doesn't have checkbox based mark as read, but it's got everything else >> sorted IMHO. > > > Yeah t

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: RSS Readers for Entrepreneurs

2012-06-17 Thread Ben Sand
On 18 June 2012 09:10, Tom Allen wrote: > I agree with Michael. I'm using Google reader, and it still sorts by date > for me. The "view settings" drop down menu has "Sort by newest", "Sort > by oldest", and "Sort by magic" (their 'what we think you'll like' machine > learning algorithm). Thank

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: RSS Readers for Entrepreneurs

2012-06-17 Thread Nigel Sheridan-Smith
You can use outlook on pc or mail/safari on the mac... Gets the job done. I've also used a .net app RssReader I think it was called Nigel On Jun 18, 2012 9:10 AM, "Tom Allen" wrote: > I agree with Michael. I'm using Google reader, and it still sorts by date > for me. The "view settings" drop do

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: RSS Readers for Entrepreneurs

2012-06-17 Thread Tom Allen
I agree with Michael. I'm using Google reader, and it still sorts by date for me. The "view settings" drop down menu has "Sort by newest", "Sort by oldest", and "Sort by magic" (their 'what we think you'll like' machine learning algorithm). Other than that I just stick feeds into categories, and