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Five ways you can use IFTTT and feedly

What is IFTTT?

IFTTT

IFTTT, “If this, then that,” is a tool that allows you to create commands, or “recipes” that connect all of the different web services you use together. IFTTT automates the power of the web by relying on “if” recipes and “do” recipes. One classic IFTTT recipe states, “If I post a picture on Instagram, then save the photo to Dropbox.” There are more than 200 web services (or “channels”) that IFTTT supports – from feedly to Google Drive, WordPress, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, and countless more. With feedly Pro, you get access to IFTTT (and more) so you can automate the sharing, saving, and publishing process to the rest of the web.

00. Connect your feedly to IFTTT

With feedly Pro, you can get seamless integration with IFTTT to automate the sharing and saving process with feedly.  IFTTT has more than 2,000 recipes that connect feedly with services like Google Drive, WordPress, and YouTube.  Connect your feedly to get full access to everything IFTTT offers with feedly.

  1. Go to IFTTT.com and login to your account, or create an account. It’ll be easier if you set up your IFTTT with the same email that you used to create you feedly. That way you’ll already be logged in.
  2. Get to the feedly channel in IFTTT by clicking on Channels in the top navigation and searching for feedly. Click to connect your feedly
  3. Once you login to your feedly account can start making and using recipes on IFTTT!

We’ve compiled five popular recipes that showcase the best uses of IFTTT and feedly.

01. Automatically send saved stories to a Google Spreadsheet

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One of the most popular feedly recipes in IFTTT is “Send stories marked Saved For Later in feedly to a Google Spreadsheet.” This provides an easy way for you to keep track of the stories that you save in feedly. You can share the spreadsheet with colleagues, or simply have an archive of everything you save in feedly. Find the recipe here or follow these simple steps to create your own in IFTTT.

  1.  Click on My Recipes in the top navigation and click on Create a Recipe.
  2. For “this”, choose feedly and select the trigger “New articles saved for later.”
  3. For “that”, choose Google Drive and select the action “Add row to spreadsheet.” You may need to connect your Google account.
  4. Creating this recipe will create a new spreadsheet in Google Drive. Change the name of the spreadsheet and specify which Google Drive folder to place it in. Each time you save a story, a new row will be created in that spreadsheet.
  5. Review the recipe you’ve created, and when you’re ready click Create Recipe.

02. Tweet stories with a specific tag in feedly

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Tagging stories is useful if you want to come back to a certain set of stories later, but with IFTTT you can also use tags to automate your sharing. You can find the recipe here or create your own IFTTT recipe.

  1. For “this”, choose feedly and select the trigger “New article tagged.” Select one of your feedly tags and create the trigger.
  2. For “that”, choose Twitter and select the action “Post a tweet.”
  3. Your tweet will show just the story’s title and URL. Add comments or a hashtag in the tweet text to create uniformity in your tweets. For example, you can add #feedly so that your followers know where you first read the story.

03. Get an email every time there’s a new story in one of your feedly categories

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Some users need to keep an eye on everything that is happening in some of their categories. If that’s the case for you, with IFTTT you can get notified every time there is a new story in one of your categories. Here’s how to set up this recipe:

  1. For “this”, choose feedly and select the trigger “New article from category.” Select the category that you would like to get notifications from. To get notified when there’s a new article in different categories, create a separate recipe for each one.
  2. For “that”, choose the channel  “Email,” shown by a white envelope over a blue backdrop. This tells IFTTT to send you an email. You can change how you want the subject and body of the email to appear in your inbox.

Pro tip: You can also set up this kind of recipe to get new stories sent to you by text message.

04. Get trending New York Times articles sent to your feedly

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feedly is a great tool to use not just to follow topics for your job, but also to stay on top of the news. Adding only the popular New York Times articles to your feedly will keep you up-to-date on the important things without cluttering your feed.

  1. For “this”, choose The New York Times and select the trigger “New popular article in section.” Choose the section that interests you most, or if you want to see all trending articles select “Any Section.”
  2. For “that”, choose feedly and select either “Add new source” or “Save for later” as the action. Selecting “Add new source” will put the story in Uncategorized.

05. Get videos marked “Watch Later” added to your feedly

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feedly is not only good for reading, but also for watching videos from YouTube. You can use IFTTT to get YouTube videos you’ve marked “Watch Later” added to your Saved For Later in feedly.

  1. For “this”, choose YouTube, with the trigger “New watch later video.”
  2. For “that”, choose feedly, with the action “Save for later.” Now, you can keep and watch videos that you mark as Watch Later in both your YouTube and your feedly.

Pro tip: You can also import your YouTube subscriptions to feedly to make sure you don’t miss any uploads from your favorite channels.

Explore even more IFTTT recipes

Those are just a few of the many ways to boost and automate your use of feedly with IFTTT. There are over 2,000 feedly-based recipes on IFTTT, making it a powerful resource for users all over. Here are our favorite recipes:

  • Grow your knowledge by adding a random Wikipedia article to your feedly every day
  • Always on the go? Save feedly articles to Pocket to read later
  • Spice things up by adding new Tumblr likes to your feedly

6 ways to get the right content on your feedly

We are busy people, that much is a given. We don’t have time to be checking for news on many different websites – feedly is the most efficient news reader for finding, reading and using the content that’s important to you.

feedly is an easy, organized way of reading more stories within your interests to supercharge your knowledge and productivity and get better at your job. Find content that you normally read across the web and organize it in your feedly space. You can create a Collection within your feedly to get the most about topics that interest your or learn a new skill – the opportunities are limitless!

Your feedly is what you make of it, so personalize it as best you can with the best content and fill your knowledge with the ideas you need to keep ahead. Use these six ways to tailor feedly with the sources, blogs and alerts that matter to you, then scroll down to the bottom to get a sense of what some completed feedlys look like.

01 Search for a site you already know

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feedly is the tool to organize the news that is important to you. Whether you get your daily news from a big publisher like The New York Times or you want to follow a niche blog – you can find and follow all the publications you want in feedly.

  1. On feedly’s Add Content page, search for a publication or blog you read regularly and want to follow in feedly. For instance, search “The Atlantic.”
  2. Once you’ve found the site you’re looking for click the green plus button Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 10.54.29 AM. You can choose which of your Collections to add the site to or create a new Collection.
  3. Now you can find even more blogs and publications to add to your feedly!

02 Explore a topic

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The web is filled with knowledge on any topic imaginable, and feedly is connected to millions of sources of content on the web. feedly lets you find these “gems” and follow them so that you’re always in the know – whether you’re passionate about web design, informatics, or you’re looking to become a better marketer or teacher.

  1. Go to feedly.com and click Add Content.
  2. Search for a topic or site, for instance “marketing.” This will take you to a page that showcases the best marketing blogs on feedly.
    1. Tip: sometimes searching with a #  gives you better results. Try it out!
  3. If you’re looking for some quick suggestions on what to follow in our most popular topics, check our our Starter Kits. You can browse by topic to find rich content to follow. You can find the Starter Kits on the Add Content page.
  4. When you find a blog that you want in your feed you can click the green plus buttonScreen Shot 2015-07-21 at 10.54.29 AM and you will see steps to sign up with feedly through your Google or Facebook.
  5. Once you’ve created an account, you can add unlimited content to your feedly.

03 See what thought leaders read with Curated Collections

Wouldn’t it be incredible if you could see the sources a best-selling author like Seth Godin what follows when it comes to Marketing? Or find out where superstar blogger and author Joy Wilson finds inspiration for Dessert and Baking? These industry experts have made their Collections public on feedly so that you, too, can learn to become an expert. Find out what they’re reading in feedly:

  1. If you scroll down on the Add Content page you’ll see some of the Curated Collections in feedly. These are curated by authors of popular blogs, whom we trust to gather the best information about the topic of their expertise.
  2. In each Curated Collection, you’ll see a description and a sampling of some of the publications and blogs in that Collection. If you already have a favorite author, you’ll want to check this out.
  3. Start browsing the publications and blogs in the Curated Collections until you find one you like. You can add one to your feedly by clicking the Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 10.54.29 AMor Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 11.02.31 AM.
  4. Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 11.14.49 AM Preview what that Collection would look like in your feedly. Like what you see? Add it!  Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 11.02.03 AM adds the entire Collection to your reading list.

04 Adding sites from a URL


If you tried searching for the name of a specific publication or blog and that didn’t work, adding via URL might work well. This may give you more specific results and will make searching easier.

  1. Search for the URL in feedly’s search bar. For exact matches, select Screen Shot 2015-07-29 at 3.59.49 PM  http://www.time.com sites.
  2. If that doesn’t work, you will have to find the site’s feed URL. To do this, go to their homepage and look for the Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 11.30.01 AM. This will take you to a separate page to add the publication or blog to a different RSS Feeds system. To add it to your feedly, copy and paste the URL into your feedly search bar.
  3. Another way to add a specific site is by copy and pasting the publication or blog’s feed URL (found in step 2) right after http://feedly.com/i/subscription/feed/. For instance, this is what the URL would look like when searching for TIME magazine: http://feedly.com/i/subscription/feed/http://www.time.com/feed/.
  4. However, if you have feedly mini, you don’t have to go through the hassle of finding the site’s feed URL. To add a publication or blog to your feedly using feedly mini, all you have to do is go to the site’s homepage and click the Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 11.23.31 AMin the bottom right hand corner, then click the Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 11.25.45 AM , which will take you back to the feedly website. Learn how to activate feedly Mini.

05 Adding YouTube channels to your feedly

Screen Shot 2015-07-28 at 2.56.59 PMWatching videos can be just as useful as reading articles, and we want you to be able to make the most of your feedly by including YouTube channels. feedly is useful for keeping an eye on the latest uploads from your favorite YouTube channels.

There are two ways of adding YouTube channels to your feedly.Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 1.07.02 PM

  1. The first way is to copy and paste the YouTube channel’s URL directly in your feedly search bar. You can add YouTube channels one-by-one into different Collections.
  2. If you already subscribe to a number of channels on YouTube, you can import them all in your feedly using an OPML export. Export your OPML file from YouTube from the subscriptions page. For the import to feedly, see our final tip below.

06 Import existing subscriptions using OPML

You can use an OPML file to import content from other places that you subscribe to information.

  1. Go to the site that you want go grab your subscription from and export the OPML file. For instance, to add videos you watch on YouTube go to https://www.youtube.com/subscription_manager and click Export.
  2. Now, open feedly.com and click on Organize at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu.
  3. Click on Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 11.37.04 AM at the top of the page, then find the .xml document you downloaded from YouTube. When you’re ready, click Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 11.39.19 AM.

Now, you will have a category of your previous subscriptions in your feedly!

Examples of completed feedlys

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6 ways to get the right content on your feedly

We are busy people, that much is a given. We don’t have time to be checking for news on many different websites – feedly is the most efficient news reader for finding, reading and using the content that’s important to you.

feedly is an easy, organized way of reading more stories within your interests to supercharge your knowledge and productivity and get better at your job. Find content that you normally read across the web and organize it in your feedly space. You can create a Collection within your feedly to get the most about topics that interest your or learn a new skill – the opportunities are limitless!

Your feedly is what you make of it, so personalize it as best you can with the best content and fill your knowledge with the ideas you need to keep ahead. Use these six ways to tailor feedly with the sources, blogs and alerts that matter to you, then scroll down to the bottom to get a sense of what some completed feedlys look like.

01 Search for a site you already know

Screen Shot 2015-07-29 at 3.37.18 PM

feedly is the tool to organize the news that is important to you. Whether you get your daily news from a big publisher like The New York Times or you want to follow a niche blog – you can find and follow all the publications you want in feedly.

  1. On feedly’s Add Content page, search for a publication or blog you read regularly and want to follow in feedly. For instance, search “The Atlantic.”
  2. Once you’ve found the site you’re looking for click the green plus button Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 10.54.29 AM. You can choose which of your Collections to add the site to or create a new Collection.
  3. Now you can find even more blogs and publications to add to your feedly!

02 Explore a topic

Screen Shot 2015-07-28 at 2.51.40 PM
The web is filled with knowledge on any topic imaginable, and feedly is connected to millions of sources of content on the web. feedly lets you find these “gems” and follow them so that you’re always in the know – whether you’re passionate about web design, informatics, or you’re looking to become a better marketer or teacher.

  1. Go to feedly.com and click Add Content.
  2. Search for a topic or site, for instance “marketing.” This will take you to a page that showcases the best marketing blogs on feedly.
    1. Tip: sometimes searching with a #  gives you better results. Try it out!
  3. If you’re looking for some quick suggestions on what to follow in our most popular topics, check our our Starter Kits. You can browse by topic to find rich content to follow. You can find the Starter Kits on the Add Content page.
  4. When you find a blog that you want in your feed you can click the green plus buttonScreen Shot 2015-07-21 at 10.54.29 AM and you will see steps to sign up with feedly through your Google or Facebook.
  5. Once you’ve created an account, you can add unlimited content to your feedly.

03 See what thought leaders read with Curated Collections

Wouldn’t it be incredible if you could see the sources a best-selling author like Seth Godin what follows when it comes to Marketing? Or find out where superstar blogger and author Joy Wilson finds inspiration for Dessert and Baking? These industry experts have made their Collections public on feedly so that you, too, can learn to become an expert. Find out what they’re reading in feedly:

  1. If you scroll down on the Add Content page you’ll see some of the Curated Collections in feedly. These are curated by authors of popular blogs, whom we trust to gather the best information about the topic of their expertise.
  2. In each Curated Collection, you’ll see a description and a sampling of some of the publications and blogs in that Collection. If you already have a favorite author, you’ll want to check this out.
  3. Start browsing the publications and blogs in the Curated Collections until you find one you like. You can add one to your feedly by clicking the Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 10.54.29 AMor Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 11.02.31 AM.
  4. Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 11.14.49 AM Preview what that Collection would look like in your feedly. Like what you see? Add it!  Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 11.02.03 AM adds the entire Collection to your reading list.

04 Adding sites from a URL


If you tried searching for the name of a specific publication or blog and that didn’t work, adding via URL might work well. This may give you more specific results and will make searching easier.

  1. Search for the URL in feedly’s search bar. For exact matches, select Screen Shot 2015-07-29 at 3.59.49 PM  http://www.time.com sites.
  2. If that doesn’t work, you will have to find the site’s feed URL. To do this, go to their homepage and look for the Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 11.30.01 AM. This will take you to a separate page to add the publication or blog to a different RSS Feeds system. To add it to your feedly, copy and paste the URL into your feedly search bar.
  3. Another way to add a specific site is by copy and pasting the publication or blog’s feed URL (found in step 2) right after http://feedly.com/i/subscription/feed/. For instance, this is what the URL would look like when searching for TIME magazine: http://feedly.com/i/subscription/feed/http://www.time.com/feed/.
  4. However, if you have feedly mini, you don’t have to go through the hassle of finding the site’s feed URL. To add a publication or blog to your feedly using feedly mini, all you have to do is go to the site’s homepage and click the Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 11.23.31 AMin the bottom right hand corner, then click the Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 11.25.45 AM , which will take you back to the feedly website. Learn how to activate feedly Mini.

05 Adding YouTube channels to your feedly

Screen Shot 2015-07-28 at 2.56.59 PMWatching videos can be just as useful as reading articles, and we want you to be able to make the most of your feedly by including YouTube channels. feedly is useful for keeping an eye on the latest uploads from your favorite YouTube channels.

There are two ways of adding YouTube channels to your feedly.Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 1.07.02 PM

  1. The first way is to copy and paste the YouTube channel’s URL directly in your feedly search bar. You can add YouTube channels one-by-one into different Collections.
  2. If you already subscribe to a number of channels on YouTube, you can import them all in your feedly using an OPML export. Export your OPML file from YouTube from the subscriptions page. For the import to feedly, see our final tip below.

06 Import existing subscriptions using OPML

You can use an OPML file to import content from other places that you subscribe to information.

  1. Go to the site that you want go grab your subscription from and export the OPML file. For instance, to add videos you watch on YouTube go to https://www.youtube.com/subscription_manager and click Export.
  2. Now, open feedly.com and click on Organize at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu.
  3. Click on Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 11.37.04 AM at the top of the page, then find the .xml document you downloaded from YouTube. When you’re ready, click Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 11.39.19 AM.

Now, you will have a category of your previous subscriptions in your feedly!

Examples of completed feedlys

Screen Shot 2015-07-29 at 12.00.23 PM
Screen Shot 2015-07-29 at 11.23.37 AM
Screen Shot 2015-07-29 at 11.13.55 AM

The best Taptu replacement

We are excited to see feedly become the new home for so many Taptu users. If you are a Taptu user looking for a new home, you can download feedly for free on both iOS and Android.

Get feedly of iOS (free)

Get feedly for Android (free)

We are receiving as part of this transition a lot of great feedback and suggestions. We are going to review these in detail with the dev team over the next few weeks and make feedly the best reader possible for Taptu users.

In the meantime, here are a few tips for new Taptu users:

1/ Use the search box to find the specific blogs and sites you love to read regularly and add them to your feedly. Our mission is to help you connect with your favorite sites.

2/ Take advantage of collections to organize those blogs and sites into groups. Some users like to group feeds per topic, some per reading priority, some per project…

3/ When you add a feed to your feedly, you can change settings to create the best reading experience for you. Some users like title only, some users like visual cards, some like a balance. Feedly gives you the control to taylor the experience (both at the feed level and at the collection level). We particularly recommend the card view.

4/ Take advantage of the web/mobile continuity. We worked hard to make sure that your feedly is available on iOS, Android, the Web and 100+ third party apps. We invite you to try some of these experiences and enjoy a very seamless integration.

5/ Take advantage of our useful integrations (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, buffer, hootsuite, IFTTT, Evernote, OneNote, Pocket, Zapier, etc…) to streamline your workflows.

We are lucky to serve a vocal community and love candid feedback. If you are a Taptu user and have questions or suggestions on how to improve feedly going forward, please leave a comment or post a suggestion on feedly.uservoice.com

Welcome onboard: we look forward to connecting your to your favorite sites!

/@edwk

Milestone: 50,000 feedly pro users. Thank you!

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This week, the feedly Pro community grew to 50,000 users.

Here are some of the short term projects which are going to benefit from this funding:

1. We are going to continue to invest in the feedly Cloud so that the service remains reliable and fast despite the growing number of users and the growing number of stories we deliver each day.

2. We are working on a new version of feedly for Android which reflects some of the Material Design changes Arthur highlighted in his design review (thanks for all the awesome feedback!).

3. We are working on a new iteration of the collection sharing feature. Our goal is to integrate the great feedback we collected during the beta and open that feature to more curators.

4. We are working on a set of features which are going to help content creators get discovered and retain readers more effectively. One of our goals for 2015 is to help bloggers thrive. This is a first step in that direction.

5. There is a lot of demand for continuing to improve search, allow users to save searches, allow users to define alerts, etc.. We are going to continue to invest heavily on search, discovery and alerts. We would also love to allow more users to benefit from search.

We pride ourselves in being funded by our community so a big thank you for backing us and making the feedly adventure possible.

/@edwk

Feedly for Android: A material design exploration

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About half of the feedly users read their feedly on an android device. We love Android and want to make sure that curating and sharing content from your phone and tablet is a fluid and fast experience.

Arthur has been exploring how we could evolve the feedly user experience to better align with the Material Design specification. Before we start implementing these changes, we thought that it would be interesting to open up the design to the community and collect your feedback.

If you are a feedly+Android user and love design or have a strong opinion regarding how to improve the experience, please review the new feedly design spec and give Arthur feedback.

Review new feedly design

One more thing. We are looking for a designer with awesome visual and branding skills to help push the feedly product and brand forward. If you are interested in joining the team drop us an email at design@feedly.com with a link to your online portfolio (or pdf).

Introducing Power Search: It is Google for Stories.

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We are excited to announce the new iteration of the feedly Power Search: it is Google-fast, indexes the entire history of all your feeds and lets you slice up results using filters and operators. For the first time, you can also search for stories, podcasts and videos beyond your feedly.

 
With Power Search, you can search across 40 million sites, magazines and blogs and find the best content related to your industry, a brand or a product. We index 50 million new article every day, organize them by topics and keywords and sort them by engagement on feedly and social networks. It is the fastest way to find relevant content and boost your marketing and research projects.

Here is an example:

Let’s refine things:

If you are an existing feedly user, you can go even further and apply these searches to your existing collections, your saved stories or your tags.

Our goal is to evolve Power Search into Google for Stories so that content creators, researchers and marketers can find the content that matters to them faster. The new Power Search is a step in that direction.

Happy Searching!

/Edwin

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Open web pages in external browser – feedly for Android 25.0.4

Open web pages in external browser

A lot of users have been asking us to open web pages in the external browser instead of inside feedly so we spent some time and implemented this feature as part of the 25.0.4 update we just pushed to the beta channel (note: there is a settings option called “open external browser” to disable this feature if you prefer to open web pages in feedly.

Open Browser Directly

New fonts and font sizes

As part of version 25.0.4, we also focused on improving readability of articles by offering users a new set of fonts and font sizes.

New Mobile Fonts

Different people like different fonts so we are offering a set of settings to let you fully control the reading experience.

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Happy eyes, happy reading. One of our goals for 2015 is to continuously improve the reading experience and make feedly the reference when it comes to reading web content so if you have suggestions on how to improve legibility or productivity please let us know.

25.0.4 is currently in beta. If everything goes well, it should be promoted to the main channel on Monday or Tuesday.

Update Dec 17th: The result from the beta is that this build dramatically reduces the number of crashes so we just promoted 25.0.4 to the main channel.

/Edwin, Seb and Michal