The new feedly for iOS is available for download in the App Store. This update takes advantage of the enhancements in iOS 9, reduces crashes, and improves battery consumption.
Important Update: There is a bug which prevents users from loading the app in iOS 8. The dev team is looking into the problem. Sorry for the inconvenience.
We integrated feedly with the new iOS 9 Safari viewer so that when you open websites you can take advantage of the full power of Safari.
02. San Francisco font
As part of iOS 9, Apple designed a new font called San Francisco which is more readable at small sizes and more beautiful when used for headlines. For those using this new operating system, we transitioned feedly’s fonts from Helvetica to San Francisco to take advantage of those new features. We are also offering you an option to use San Francisco as the default article font, if you prefer a sans serif reading experience.
03. No more background activity
Your battery is going to love this change.
04. Home screen quick actions
If you are running iPhone 6s, you can force touch the feedly app icon and quickly jump to your today, your must reads, your saved storied, or the explore section.
05. Fixes a few crashes
There were a few crash reports in the reviews. We hate crashes as much as anybody else, so we took the time to rewrite how webpages are loaded in feedly and optimize what happens when you swipe from one story to another. This should result in fewer crashes.
Today we passed an exciting new milestone: 60,000 users have subscribed to feedly Pro. We would like to take a moment and thank each one of you and share some of the projects we are working on, thanks to this new funding.
1. More servers – The feedly cloud is connected to 42,000,000 feeds of information, receiving about 50,000,000 new stories every day. We are adding servers to the feedly Cloud to store, organize, and index all of this information so that we can continue to serve you feedly very fast.
2. Feedly login – This is something a lot of users have been requesting for some time. We now have the resources to fund this project and make it a reality. We will continue to offer the ability to log in with Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and Evernote to people who prefer to use existing logins. We are also adding support for logging in with Slack and Office 365, since we hear that it will make logging in even easier for some of our users.
3. Shared tags – When we released Shared Collections last month, some users asked us to go one step further and also allow them to share some of their tags. We really like this idea and are working on both continuing to enhance Shared Collections and adding shared tags.
4. Filtering, saved search, and noise reduction – We have been hearing a lot of murmurs from you around the need for filtering and for alerts. We are going to use part of the new Pro funding for a project that will allow you to define manual and automated filters. It will also allow you to save searches as alerts. We love the idea of giving you even more control over how to tailor your feedly. More signal, less noise.
5. Better Slack integration – We think that we can reduce some of the friction that exists around manually sharing stories from your feedly into your Slack channels. Many users are using feedly and Slack in tandem, so we are going to invest some time enhancing the integration.
6. Fewer iOS crashes – We have been receiving some reports of iOS crashes. They seem related to loading web pages, videos, and animated gifs within feedly. We hate crashes as much as anyone else, and we are fixing this. We are investing time into a new update of the feedly iOS application which changes how we load content and minimizes the risk of the application crashing. We are also investing time optimizing how we serve content to minimize battery usage. You should see the fruits of this work in the v30 update of the app which should be available within a few weeks.
7. Team edition – More on that soon…
Thanks to your backing, we’re able to continuously invest in building a better, faster, stronger and more useful work newsfeed. It is a great pleasure to serve you.
Today we passed an exciting new milestone: 60,000 users have subscribed to feedly Pro. We would like to take a moment and thank each one of you and share some of the projects we are working on, thanks to this new funding.
1. More servers – The feedly cloud is connected to 42,000,000 feeds of information, receiving about 50,000,000 new stories every day. We are adding servers to the feedly Cloud to store, organize, and index all of this information so that we can continue to serve you feedly very fast.
2. Feedly login – This is something a lot of users have been requesting for some time. We now have the resources to fund this project and make it a reality. We will continue to offer the ability to log in with Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and Evernote to people who prefer to use existing logins. We are also adding support for logging in with Slack and Office 365, since we hear that it will make logging in even easier for some of our users.
3. Shared tags – When we released Shared Collections last month, some users asked us to go one step further and also allow them to share some of their tags. We really like this idea and are working on both continuing to enhance Shared Collections and adding shared tags.
4. Filtering, saved search, and noise reduction – We have been hearing a lot of murmurs from you around the need for filtering and for alerts. We are going to use part of the new Pro funding for a project that will allow you to define manual and automated filters. It will also allow you to save searches as alerts. We love the idea of giving you even more control over how to tailor your feedly. More signal, less noise.
5. Better Slack integration – We think that we can reduce some of the friction that exists around manually sharing stories from your feedly into your Slack channels. Many users are using feedly and Slack in tandem, so we are going to invest some time enhancing the integration.
6. Fewer iOS crashes – We have been receiving some reports of iOS crashes. They seem related to loading web pages, videos, and animated gifs within feedly. We hate crashes as much as anyone else, and we are fixing this. We are investing time into a new update of the feedly iOS application which changes how we load content and minimizes the risk of the application crashing. We are also investing time optimizing how we serve content to minimize battery usage. You should see the fruits of this work in the v30 update of the app which should be available within a few weeks.
7. Team edition – More on that soon…
Thanks to your backing, we’re able to continuously invest in building a better, faster, stronger and more useful work newsfeed. It is a great pleasure to serve you.
We built our new feature, Shared Collections, with the idea that content becomes even more powerful when you are able to share it with others. The popular saying about teaching a man to fish is true: When you show your work newsfeed to others, you empower others to grow as well.
We’ve seen so many inspiring Shared Collections over the past few weeks, and we wanted to highlight some of our favorites. Gain an expert perspective by following what these professionals consume regularly.
(Have your own expertise? Make your own Shared Collection with a feedly Pro account and post the URL in the comments. We’ll choose one to win feedly Pro for life.)
Dane Anderson, a TV writer in Los Angeles, uses his feedly to keep up on entertainment industry trades and other film and television news sources. He curates a couple of collections at the bottom of his feed to research projects he’s working on. Check out Dane Shared Collections on TV + Movies, Crime + Forensics, and Security Science Shared Collections (Can you tell what he must be writing?).
Santa Monica creative director Lee Schneider of Red Cup Agency uses his feedly to stay on top of design topics and follow specific news beats. Check out his collection on influence to see resources on how to spread ideas.
03. Become an expert on the latest in education technology
Ted Curran is an Oakland-based instructional technologist at Pearson Education’s Emerging Models division. His goal is to empower students and teachers to improving teaching through technology. Check out his Shared Collection to read the very latest in edtech.
Graham Smith is a designer in East Sussex, England, who focuses on logo and brand identity. He caters to a large crowd of 46.1k followers on his Twitter. If you follow him and are thirsty for more, get deep into the nuances of typography and follow Graham’s Shared Collection for a curated list of great resources.
About 71 percent of the world is water, and you can plunge into the deep blue with Madrid-based marine biologist Gipsy Jules’s collections on Climate Environment, Green Tech, and Science.
Interested in improving your sales skill set? DocSend is a company that helps sales teams understand what happens after they hit send. But sales is not only about the tools, but the way you use them. The company has curated a list of great resources to help people get better at sales.
07. Become more knowledgeable about information security
Steelsage is an Sydney-based digital and information security company. If you want to get learn more about this hot topic, Steel Sage’s Shared Collection offers a curated list of 39 sources to get you started.
We hope you enjoy these Shared Collections! If there are other Shared Collections you love, please leave them in the comments—or add your own for a chance to win feedly Pro for life.
One of the most important things we strive for at feedly is to enable you to make your feedly as personal as possible. Content-wise, you can do this by finding the best content based on your needs, interests, Must Read sources, and by connecting feedly to your favorite saving and sharing channels. Beyond that, you can customize your feedly even more by changing the look to what best suits your reading style.
We have seven suggestions for you to customize your feedly and make it your very own. Explore even more possibilities in the Preferences section of your feedly, at the bottom of the left-hand navigation panel, or if you’re on mobile, looking for the settings button.
01. What shows up when you open feedly.com
The default start page for feedly is Home, which shows articles from all of your Collections in feedly, in the order that you’ve organized them. To improve your productivity, it might be helpful to have your feedly open to your Must Reads so you can immediately scan your most important content. To change your start page, click on Preferences at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu and choose from the Start Page options at the top of the screen.
Home – the top articles from all of your collections, organized by category. Sites promoted to Must Read are more likely to appear in your feedly Home.
Must Reads – aggregates all the publications and blogs you have marked as Must Read so you don’t miss anything from them. This is only available on Mobile at the moment
All – shows every single story from all of the sites you follow in feedly, so you won’t miss a single one.
Index – shows the names your Collections and sites within them, with the unread article count on the right. This serves as a good overview of everything you have in your feedly.
02. Change how your stories look in your Collections
People use feedly for different reasons, and each of your collections may serve a different purpose. One could be full of good reads, another could be necessary to your job, and another could be essential to read every single article regarding a particular topic. Change the view of each collection to fit your working and reading style.
You can modify each collection one-by-one by clicking on the setting icon at the top of the page. Change the view of all of your Collections at once by clicking on Preferences at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu and changing the Default View to whatever best suits your reading style. There are five different views you can choose from:
Title only – This presents the stories in a long list, so that you can easily see if you have any unreads. It’s similar to how an email inbox would look. We suggest this view for users that need to read every single story in their Collection
Magazine – The magazine view is feedly’s default view. The three most popular stories in each collection appear at the top of the page, and the rest are listed with a photo on the left side, plus a small excerpt from the story to capture attention. This makes it easy to scan stories both for good visuals and for good content.
Cards – Stories are presented as cards in a three-columns view, with a photo to capture attention. This view works well if you like to read stories that involve a lot of graphics, like design or photography.
Full articles – This is a blog-type view. Each story is presented in full so that all you have to do keep scrolling down to read them all, no clicking involved. However, with so much content, it can be difficult to see where each story starts and ends. Full article view is good for users who need to read every single article in a particular collection.
Grouped by feeds – This organizes all your stories based on the site they are from. If, for instance, you want to look at the design blogs you follow in feedly for inspiration but you don’t want them to get mixed up, organize your collection by feed.
03. Add, delete, and edit your collections and feeds
From the Organize page, you can do other useful things, such as changing the name of a collection or blog, moving blogs between collections and deleting collections or blogs. Unfortunately, right now it is not possible to change the order that blogs appear within each collection.
To change the name of a publication or blog in one of your collections, click the editicon next to each publication or blog.
To move a publication or blog to a different collection, simply drag and drop it into the Collection that makes the most sense to you. When you first add a site to your collection, you also have the option of adding it to more than one collection.
To delete a collection or a blog, simply click the “x” next to it’s name. Another way to delete a publication or blog is by going on their page in feedly and removing through the setting icon at the top of their page in feedly.
04. Organize your Collections with a hierarchy that makes sense to you
Feedly’s goal is to personalize what you read to maximize your productivity, so the best way to make use of your feedly is by ordering sites and categories with a hierarchy that makes sense to you. You can list your more important collections at the top, or organize them based on content.
There are two ways to do this:
In the left-hand navigation menu, reorganize your Collections by clicking and dragging each one up and down until you find an order you like. The only category that will stay fixed is “Uncategorized,” which will always be at the bottom. (Shown above)
Click Organize at the bottom of your left-hand navigation menu. This will take you to a page where you will see each of your Collections laid out in boxes. Drag each box to a place that suits your visual and working needs.
05. Edit your Marked as Read settings
Feedly serves as a tool for millions of readers from all over. Some of those readers prefer if the unread article count is always at a nice, fresh “zero” while others don’t care. With feedly, you can mark and unmark certain articles as read. Usually, once you’ve read an article in feedly it’ll show up as unread by displaying a gray headline instead of a black one. This is helpful if you want to read every single article in a Collection. But sometimes reading every single one can be a little overwhelming, especially if your unread article count is in the hundreds. There are several ways to mark read articles that you haven’t actually read.
Click on the settings icon at the top of your screen. In the Mark As Read section you can change the amount of time past which you would like an articles to be marked as read. Clicking “All” in the Marked As Read section marks all unread articles in that collection as read.
Click the checkmark at the top of your collection. A popup will ask you if you are sure you want to mark the entire category as read. You can prevent this popup from appearing again by changing your Mark As Read Preferences.
To change the settings for all of your Collections at once click on Preferences at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu. Scroll down until you see the Marked As Read section, about halfway down the page. Change these settings based on what you think works best for your reading style.
Click the unread count in the left-hand navigation menu where all of your Collections are listed. If you hover over the number it will appear with a slash through it, indicating it will mark as
To mark all articles in your feedly as read, click on the unread count or the circle next to All in the left-hand navigation menu. This is a good way of starting fresh for inbox-zero users.You can turn off this setting by selecting No for the option Mark as read in navigation bar
06. Personalize the color of your navigation menu
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feedly’s default colors are white and gray, creating a minimalist look. You can spice up your feedly to match your creative persona be changing the color of the navigation bar. Click on Themes at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu and choose your favorite color to use for your feedly. The default is set to Modern Gray.
07. Change the font and font size to improve readability
Some people read more productively with different fonts, and certain fonts are easier to read than others. We allow you to personalize your fonts in feedly to maximize your experience and efficiency. To do this, click on Preferences in at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu and scroll down to a section called Reading Experience. Here, you can change the font, the font size and the density of the text.
08. Change the color of read and unread articles
If you’re trying to read every single article in a feed, it might s be helpful to change the color of unread articles to something that will catch your attention. Make your feedly experience personal by changing it to your favorite color or any color that makes readability easier for you. You can match this to the theme you’ve selected to make your feedly more aesthetically pleasing.
Click on Preferences at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu and look for the part that says Unread Links color.
You can change the #222222 to whatever you want. For instance putting in the code #f80808 changes the color of unread articles to red. Find more codes here!
You can also change the Read Links Color right above the Unread Links color. Just put in a different code where #888888 is now.
One of the most important things we strive for at feedly is to enable you to make your feedly as personal as possible. Content-wise, you can do this by finding the best content based on your needs, interests, Must Read sources, and by connecting feedly to your favorite saving and sharing channels. Beyond that, you can customize your feedly even more by changing the look to what best suits your reading style.
We have seven suggestions for you to customize your feedly and make it your very own. Explore even more possibilities in the Preferences section of your feedly, at the bottom of the left-hand navigation panel, or if you’re on mobile, looking for the settings button.
01. What shows up when you open feedly.com
The default start page for feedly is Home, which shows articles from all of your Collections in feedly, in the order that you’ve organized them. To improve your productivity, it might be helpful to have your feedly open to your Must Reads so you can immediately scan your most important content. To change your start page, click on Preferences at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu and choose from the Start Page options at the top of the screen.
Home – the top articles from all of your collections, organized by category. Sites promoted to Must Read are more likely to appear in your feedly Home.
Must Reads – aggregates all the publications and blogs you have marked as Must Read so you don’t miss anything from them. This is only available on Mobile at the moment
All – shows every single story from all of the sites you follow in feedly, so you won’t miss a single one.
Index – shows the names your Collections and sites within them, with the unread article count on the right. This serves as a good overview of everything you have in your feedly.
02. Change how your stories look in your Collections
People use feedly for different reasons, and each of your collections may serve a different purpose. One could be full of good reads, another could be necessary to your job, and another could be essential to read every single article regarding a particular topic. Change the view of each collection to fit your working and reading style.
You can modify each collection one-by-one by clicking on the setting icon at the top of the page. Change the view of all of your Collections at once by clicking on Preferences at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu and changing the Default View to whatever best suits your reading style. There are five different views you can choose from:
Title only – This presents the stories in a long list, so that you can easily see if you have any unreads. It’s similar to how an email inbox would look. We suggest this view for users that need to read every single story in their Collection
Magazine – The magazine view is feedly’s default view. The three most popular stories in each collection appear at the top of the page, and the rest are listed with a photo on the left side, plus a small excerpt from the story to capture attention. This makes it easy to scan stories both for good visuals and for good content.
Cards – Stories are presented as cards in a three-columns view, with a photo to capture attention. This view works well if you like to read stories that involve a lot of graphics, like design or photography.
Full articles – This is a blog-type view. Each story is presented in full so that all you have to do keep scrolling down to read them all, no clicking involved. However, with so much content, it can be difficult to see where each story starts and ends. Full article view is good for users who need to read every single article in a particular collection.
Grouped by feeds – This organizes all your stories based on the site they are from. If, for instance, you want to look at the design blogs you follow in feedly for inspiration but you don’t want them to get mixed up, organize your collection by feed.
03. Add, delete, and edit your collections and feeds
From the Organize page, you can do other useful things, such as changing the name of a collection or blog, moving blogs between collections and deleting collections or blogs. Unfortunately, right now it is not possible to change the order that blogs appear within each collection.
To change the name of a publication or blog in one of your collections, click the editicon next to each publication or blog.
To move a publication or blog to a different collection, simply drag and drop it into the Collection that makes the most sense to you. When you first add a site to your collection, you also have the option of adding it to more than one collection.
To delete a collection or a blog, simply click the “x” next to it’s name. Another way to delete a publication or blog is by going on their page in feedly and removing through the setting icon at the top of their page in feedly.
04. Organize your Collections with a hierarchy that makes sense to you
Feedly’s goal is to personalize what you read to maximize your productivity, so the best way to make use of your feedly is by ordering sites and categories with a hierarchy that makes sense to you. You can list your more important collections at the top, or organize them based on content.
There are two ways to do this:
In the left-hand navigation menu, reorganize your Collections by clicking and dragging each one up and down until you find an order you like. The only category that will stay fixed is “Uncategorized,” which will always be at the bottom. (Shown above)
Click Organize at the bottom of your left-hand navigation menu. This will take you to a page where you will see each of your Collections laid out in boxes. Drag each box to a place that suits your visual and working needs.
05. Edit your Marked as Read settings
Feedly serves as a tool for millions of readers from all over. Some of those readers prefer if the unread article count is always at a nice, fresh “zero” while others don’t care. With feedly, you can mark and unmark certain articles as read. Usually, once you’ve read an article in feedly it’ll show up as unread by displaying a gray headline instead of a black one. This is helpful if you want to read every single article in a Collection. But sometimes reading every single one can be a little overwhelming, especially if your unread article count is in the hundreds. There are several ways to mark read articles that you haven’t actually read.
Click on the settings icon at the top of your screen. In the Mark As Read section you can change the amount of time past which you would like an articles to be marked as read. Clicking “All” in the Marked As Read section marks all unread articles in that collection as read.
Click the checkmark at the top of your collection. A popup will ask you if you are sure you want to mark the entire category as read. You can prevent this popup from appearing again by changing your Mark As Read Preferences.
To change the settings for all of your Collections at once click on Preferences at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu. Scroll down until you see the Marked As Read section, about halfway down the page. Change these settings based on what you think works best for your reading style.
Click the unread count in the left-hand navigation menu where all of your Collections are listed. If you hover over the number it will appear with a slash through it, indicating it will mark as
To mark all articles in your feedly as read, click on the unread count or the circle next to All in the left-hand navigation menu. This is a good way of starting fresh for inbox-zero users.You can turn off this setting by selecting No for the option Mark as read in navigation bar
06. Personalize the color of your navigation menu
Nephritis
feedly’s default colors are white and gray, creating a minimalist look. You can spice up your feedly to match your creative persona be changing the color of the navigation bar. Click on Themes at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu and choose your favorite color to use for your feedly. The default is set to Modern Gray.
07. Change the font and font size to improve readability
Some people read more productively with different fonts, and certain fonts are easier to read than others. We allow you to personalize your fonts in feedly to maximize your experience and efficiency. To do this, click on Preferences in at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu and scroll down to a section called Reading Experience. Here, you can change the font, the font size and the density of the text.
08. Change the color of read and unread articles
If you’re trying to read every single article in a feed, it might s be helpful to change the color of unread articles to something that will catch your attention. Make your feedly experience personal by changing it to your favorite color or any color that makes readability easier for you. You can match this to the theme you’ve selected to make your feedly more aesthetically pleasing.
Click on Preferences at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu and look for the part that says Unread Links color.
You can change the #222222 to whatever you want. For instance putting in the code #f80808 changes the color of unread articles to red. Find more codes here!
You can also change the Read Links Color right above the Unread Links color. Just put in a different code where #888888 is now.
One of our favorite things in the world at feedly is user feedback. It is crucial to the way we think about, design, and iterate our vision of an effective work newsfeed. So we loved reading your feedback on and suggestions for our Google Now integration, which we announced last month. We read every single comment from you.
Today, we’re pleased to publicly congratulate our two winners: Macbet and Rowan.
Macbet gave a deep and thoughtful response with a multitude of suggestions. We liked all of the ideas, though our favorite was around integrating our machine learning algorithms to create smarter suggestions for users within Google Now.
Rowan also provided some great suggestions around creating specific content experiences for contexts, namely commute and work. We really loved the clarity with which Rowan expressed the ideas.
Macbet and Rowan will both get feedly Pro for life! We look forward to serving both of them—and hopefully the rest of you—for a very long time. We are incorporating your thoughts into our product roadmap and can’t wait to release the next iteration.
Our CEO Edwin likes to say, “Feedback is a gift.” We truly believe it. Thanks for all of your feedback and please keep sharing your thoughts. They are integral to making feedly better and better for you.
One of our favorite things in the world at feedly is user feedback. It is crucial to the way we think about, design, and iterate our vision of an effective work newsfeed. So we loved reading your feedback on and suggestions for our Google Now integration, which we announced last month. We read every single comment from you.
Today, we’re pleased to publicly congratulate our two winners: Macbet and Rowan.
Macbet gave a deep and thoughtful response with a multitude of suggestions. We liked all of the ideas, though our favorite was around integrating our machine learning algorithms to create smarter suggestions for users within Google Now.
Rowan also provided some great suggestions around creating specific content experiences for contexts, namely commute and work. We really loved the clarity with which Rowan expressed the ideas.
Macbet and Rowan will both get feedly Pro for life! We look forward to serving both of them—and hopefully the rest of you—for a very long time. We are incorporating your thoughts into our product roadmap and can’t wait to release the next iteration.
Our CEO Edwin likes to say, “Feedback is a gift.” We truly believe it. Thanks for all of your feedback and please keep sharing your thoughts. They are integral to making feedly better and better for you.
Sometimes it’s easier to navigate through stories just using buttons on your keyboard, so you aren’t constantly clicking in and out of stories and categories. We’ve enabled some keyboard shortcuts to make it easier and faster for you to navigate your feedly, save, and share stories. To find a list of keyboard shortcuts, type “?”.
Sometimes it’s easier to navigate through stories just using buttons on your keyboard, so you aren’t constantly clicking in and out of stories and categories. We’ve enabled some keyboard shortcuts to make it easier and faster for you to navigate your feedly, save, and share stories. To find a list of keyboard shortcuts, type “?”.
