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11 tips to make most of Shared Collections

feedly is not only about getting great content that matters to you, but also about using content to improve collaboration with your teammates or your audience. With Shared Collections, you can show others what you read in feedly.

There are so many ways to use Shared Collections. Sharing collections with your teammates allows you to stay aligned on the same news and information. Sharing a collection with your clients will build your brand by showing them the type of content you use to feed your mind. Sharing collections with your community and following will provides a platform for you to present your intellectual self and great sources for others to read in feedly. Sharing is caring, and we want to make it easier to share what you read in feedly

To maximize your use of Shared Collections, upgrade to feedly Pro or feedly Team. Anyone can view a Shared Collection, but only users that have upgraded can create one. Here are 10 tips for creating and sharing your Shared Collections.

01. Pick your personalized URL

With the Shared Collections feature in feedly Pro, you can personalize your feedly even more. It is not only an opportunity to show what you read, but to express who you are or what your organization is, using a Shared Collection page just for you.

Adding a profile photo, biography, and link to your personal website are a few ways to customoize the page for you or your brand. Here’s how you can brand your very own Shared Collections page:

Choose your name and personal URL. Choosing the right alias is important when it comes to sharing collections.You want to choose something that people will remember so it is easy for readers to find your feedly profile. We suggest something that matches your Twitter or LinkedIn aliases. Note: You can only change your alias once so make sure you like the one you’ve selected!
Add a profile image. Choose your favorite close-up, so that people who explore your collections can recognize you or your brand.
Add a short biography to give people a sense of who you are. This is one short line to describe you, your page, or your company in a few words. You can add in your work experience and explain your passions as well, however, there is a 45 character limit so keep it short.
Add links. Providing links to your website (company or personal), Twitter page, and LinkedIn profile help readers learn more about you and drive traffic to your web presences.

02. Choose the collections you want to share

All of your collections default to private, so that you are in control of what people see and cannot see. You can switch just the collections you choose to public so that you don’t have to worry about everyone seeing everything in your feedly. Doing this allows you to create some collections specifically for sharing and others for your own personal growth.

Pro tip: You can add sites to multiple collections to be presented in different Shared Collections.

To turn Shared Collections on and off, you can edit the Collections Privacy. You can find this as a link on the right side of your feedly profile. Unlocked Collections are public and shareable with the open web, whether you are sending it to your teammates, company, friends, or family. Click the lock to change your privacy settings from private to public, or vice versa. You can always come back and change these later.

Pro tip: You don’t need a feedly account to view a Shared Collection – in fact, this is a great starting point to add content and get started with feedly.

03. Make a Shared Collection for your company, agency, or team

Shared Collections are useful not only for individuals, but also for companies who want a platform to market themselves or serve their clients with useful resources. For companies with content marketing, it makes it simple for clients, friends, and followers to find all of the content in one place.

Some individuals—especially for small companies or specific teams—find it effective to use their personal profile to build their companies’ Shared Collections. However, you can also create a separate feedly account to create Shared Collections that represent your brand (like MIT and ThoughtWorks). You can fill it with your company’s own content or draw on other resources that you’ve hand-picked.

04. Share your collections with your teammates

The best way for your friends to find your collections in feedly is for you to share it with them directly. To do this, click the sharing icon at the top of the collection. You will get a public link that you can send directly to your friends.

Another way to share your Shared Collections is to direct friends to your feedly profile by giving them your alias. This will allow them to see not just one Shared Collection, but all of your Shared Collections within your profile page. Your personal URL will be www.feedly.com/alias (the alias is the name you chose during set up). If you’re not sure what your URL is, you can always find it by going to your feedly tray on the left, and clicking on “Shared Collections” at the upper left.

05. Share your collections with your following on social networks

feedly provides four sharing features to share your collections more easily. With two simple clicks, you can share to Google Plus, Twitter, Facebook, and Email. Sharing on social networks allows you to give people a sense of what you read and what your brand is.

06. Customize a cover image to match your company, team, or individual personality

The colors in your cover image reflect the colors that will appear on your feedly page. For instance, if your cover image has a lot of blues and greens, the background colors on your feedly profile will be blue and green. Take the time to choose a cover image that captures your personal brand or corporate identity and makes use of the large canvas. This could be your brand’s logo, or an image related to your brand. Because your cover image determines the colors of your feedly profile, you can use it to set the mood and entice readers into your Shared Collections.

For cover images, feedly accepts JPEGs and png files, however, gifs are not supported yet. We recommend you choose a photo that is around 1720 px x 500 px so that it’ll have good resolution on your page.

07. Create a collection description that demonstrates your domain expertise

After you’ve chosen the source of information for your Shared Collection, the collection description is a powerful way to frame the information you’ve curated. For each collection that you make public, you can create a description that captures what your collection is, why you are interested in the topic, your reasons for creating the collection, and why you like to read about it in your feedly.

The default description is “a collection of the best blogs I read in my feedly,” but you can personalize this wording to give more insight on your collection. Changing the description is simple: Just click on the edit button next to the current description and write in your own. You can expand the collection description box so there’s no limit to how long your collection description can be. We suggest keeping it relatively short so people don’t spend too much time reading through it.

08. Promote the best sources to list at the top of each collection

In each Shared Collection on your Shared Collections page, up to six sources will show up as cards, then readers can click on “more sites” to see the other sources. These are the first sites a reader will see when he or she looks at your collection. It is important to put the sites that matter the most to you at the top of these collections because it is the first taste a reader will get, and may determine whether they explores your collection further or keeps scrolling. To specify which sources are listed at the top simply promoting them to Must Read.

Pro Tip: We suggest 10-20 sites as a manageable number of sites to include in each collection.

09. Find someone else’s Shared Collections

The best way to find someone’s Shared Collection in feedly is to use their personal alias (personal URL), which will take you directly to their Shared Collections page. You can get their alias if they’ve sent it to you directly or if they’ve shared it on a social network.

However, it’s also useful to find professionals that you don’t know as well. To find some of the best Shared Collections, click on Add Content, then scroll until you see Curated Collections. Explore these and refresh the page to see more Shared Collections.

10. Use Shared Collections with your feedly Team account

If your company has a feedly Team account you can get Shared Collections to share only with your team. Your Shared Collections are private to your team and only users who use your team login will be able to see your Shared Collection.This is useful for collaborating on content with your teammates in a secure space. The list of your teammates’ Shared Collections will be listed at the top of your discovery page.

Your teammate’s Shared Collections are also accessible on mobile, from the explore panel. Click on the search icon or swipe left to see them.

11. Get ideas of what other professionals showcase in feedly

Even if you’re not interested in making your own Shared Collection, Shared Collections are a great way to get inspired and to see what the experts are reading. . We’ve hand picked a couple of outstanding Shared Collections in feedly to browse as a reader or to help guide you as you create your own. You can find more by clicking Add Content on feedly.com.

Shared Collections is a feature that makes your feedly more personal and interactive. As always, we want your feedback. Let us know what you think about this feature and what other things you wish to know about it.

Meet Shared Collections: Now you can choose to share what you read with others

At feedly, we believe at our core that knowledge is power, and thus content is empowering—and even more so when you share it!

So we are excited to introduce today a new feedly Pro feature we call Shared Collections—a new and highly requested tool that lets you choose to share what you read with your teammates, colleagues, and followings.

With Shared Collections, you can take the collections of reading sources you’ve already created—or create a new collection for the purpose of sharing—and make them public on one shared collections page dedicated just for you or your team. This Shared Collection page will showcase all of the blogs, publications, YouTube feeds, and Google News Alerts you want to showcase and make it easy for other people to follow the same sources with just a click. It’ll also allow you to create a personalized URL for your Shared Collections (nab the one you want today!).

Take that Shared Collections page and use it to collaborate with others or to show the world what feeds your mind. You can even customize it to fit your company’s identity or your personal brand.

Shared Collections is completely opt-in. All of your collections default to private, so you can make use of this feature only if you want to. When you are ready to share, turn on the collections you want public and keep your personal collections private.

Try Shared Collections Now Read Tutorial

See Shared Collections in action.

See how ThoughtWorks, a consulting agency in San Francisco, has been using Shared Collections to collaborate across their organization and to scale their content marketing efforts:

Here are a few ways you can use your Shared Collections:

Help your organization all follow the same publications, blogs, YouTube feeds, and Google Alerts. Empower your workforce to read and share.

Lead your industry by curating and sharing a rich list of must-follow reads. Lead others by showing them the important sources in your industry and move everyone forward together.

Help your teammates and peers find the best publications, blogs, YouTube feeds, and Google Alerts to do their jobs and join the conversation. Keep your teammates informed, moving in the same direction, and inspired with new ideas.

Make it easy to promote your company or agency’s thought leadership by putting all of your employees’ blogs and social media in one easy-to-follow branded page. Provide your customers, clients, social media following, and observers with a one-stop shop to find all of the resources created by your company. Perfect for any company in content marketing or with an employee social media program.

Organize your social media curation efforts by getting your team organized with the same sources. Need to feed the Content Monster? Arm your social media team with lots of publications and blogs to find entertaining posts.

Looking for some inspiration? Go to http://feedly.com/i/discover to browse other people’s Collections. Here are just a few we love:

Guy Kawasaki’s Shared Collection page – See how he feeds his social media channels, i.e. “The Content Monster.”

MIT’s Shared Collection page – Get all of MIT’s rich—and often free—resources in one place. Easily browse MIT’s feed by department and add their content to get the latest on what one of the world’s best universities is doing at the forefront of science and technology.

Seth Godin’s Shared Collection page – See what this marketing expert reads about marketing, so you can become an expert, too.

Annie Cushing’s Shared Collection page – Annie, who is a data analytics and SEO expert, uses her Shared Collection page to share interesting sites on a daily basis to her friends and colleagues on social media.

ThoughtWorks’s Shared Collection page – As spotlighted in the video above, ThoughtWorks uses Shared Collections to provide clients resources, to boost internal collaboration and communication, and to stay connected to alumni.

Try Shared Collections Now Read Tutorial

Enjoy the feature! Please try it out and if you make a cool Shared Collection, share it with the feedly community in the comments below and we’ll spotlight our favorites. For more information on making the most of Shared Collections, you can check out the tutorial.

– Team feedly

Seven ways to save articles that you read in feedly

One useful feature of feedly is saving stories, both within your feedly and with other services that are connected to your feedly. These saving features are useful because they allow you to read stories later, save them for research, save them as a reference, or save them to share with your teammates later. You can do this all on the platform that you use the most, such as Evernote, OneNote, and Dropbox.

Pro tip: All of the saving options will appear in the article toolbar or in the overflow menu at the top of each article. To customize which saving services appear in the article toolbar, click on Preferences in the left-hand navigation menu and go to Favorite Sharing Tools. Here, you can select the nine sharing and saving tools you use the most. On mobile, you can also select your favorite saving tool, which will then become the default medium to save stories. Learn more about saving stories on mobile in our full tutorial on feedly mobile.

01. Save articles to read later in your feedly

feedly supports many different saving functions, but the one that users utilize the most is the Saved For Later category in feedly. This is a good way of bookmarking articles that you think are important and want to come back to later. Saving stories in feedly is helpful because it allows you to come back to stories of interest using your “Saved For Later” category. For example, if you find a technique for productivity that you may want to try next week or a news story that will help with future research, put it in your Saved For Later.

Pro tip: You can search specifically for a story in your Saved For Later using feedly’s Power Search. Power Search gives you a “Search In” filter, where you can search in specific collections, tags, or in your Saved For Later. We have a full tutorial on using Power Search.

Pro tip: If you’ve enabled Dropbox integration, putting stories in your Saved For Later will be especially helpful because saved stories are automatically archived through Dropbox. This means you will permanently have a copy of all of your saved stories so that you’ll never lose the important and interesting content you find in feedly.

To put an article in Saved For Later, click on the bookmark icon in the article toolbar. You’ll know it’s in your Saved For Later category when it turns green. Clicking this icon again takes the story out of your Saved For Later.

Pro tip: Putting a story in Saved For Later can also serve as a trigger in IFTTT. For example, if you put a story in Saved For Later, you can add it automatically to a Google Spreadsheet. Learn all the different ways to use IFTTT and feedly.

02. Save to Evernote

Evernote is a great tool to save and organize your notes and stories. With its business edition, Evernote becomes a great platform for you to collect information, write, and discuss with your teammates. You can connect your feedly to both Evernote and Evernote Business notebooks. Here’s how to set up Evernote with your feedly:

Click on the three vertical dots in the article toolbar, then click on Evernote.
A pop-up will appear, prompting you to login to Evernote. If you already have an Evernote account, you can login, or else you can create an account.
Evernote will ask if you want feedly to access your account. Feedly will be able to create notes, notebooks, and tags, but will not delete any of your existing notes. You can update how long you want Evernote to be able to access that information. When you’re ready, click Authorize.
The pop-up window will automatically close and you’ll be taken back to your feedly. In the upper left corner a pop-up will prompt you to add the story to a notebook, or create a new notebook. Select a notebook and the article will automatically be saved to your Evernote.

03. Save to Pocket

Pocket is one of the most popular saving apps, and a user favorite for reading offline. Because Pocket is accessible both on your phone and desktop, you can read stories in Pocket from anywhere, even without internet connection.

To save to Pocket, click on the three vertical dots in the article toolbar and click on Pocket. Once you’ve logged in, you can add stories to your list of reading material. Saving to Pocket allows feedly to add new items to your list, retrieve items from your list, and modify existing items from your list.

04. Save to OneNote

Microsoft OneNote is another great tool to save, organize, and annotate all of your content and notes. With the feedly and OneNote integration, you can save stories to OneNote and have them sync to all of your devices. Sharing feedly stories through OneNote is also easy, and allows for effortless collaboration.

The OneNote icon appears on the left side of the article toolbar. Clicking it prompts you to login to OneNote, where you can save stories to read later in OneNote.

05. Save to Instapaper

Similar to Pocket, Instapaper is another saving tool that can be used offline. Instapaper offers a reader-friendly way of changing the size and spacing of the text to make the reading experience conducive to your style.

To save to Instapaper, click on the three vertical dots in the article toolbar and click on Instapaper. A pop-up will appear, allowing you to add a summary to the story, and then adds it to your Instapaper. Unlike the other saving apps integrated with feedly, the Instapaper icon doesn’t change to green after you’ve saved it. However, you can still make sure it’s there by logging into your Instapaper.

06. Keep saved stories forever using Dropbox

As a feature for feedly Pro users, we’ve implemented a Dropbox integration, which allows you to back up saved articles, tagged articles, and an OPML file – an outline of your Collections – to save to your computer. Using Dropbox integration allows you to access those articles on your computer when you are not connected to internet and cannot get onto feedly. In addition, should anything bad happen to feedly, connecting with Dropbox allows you to backup all the information you’ve saved in feedly so nothing gets lost. Follow these simple steps to activate Dropbox integration.

Click on Preferences in the left-hand navigation menu and scroll down to the very bottom to find Dropbox Integration. This is a feature of feedly Pro. Upgrade to Pro here.
To activate Dropbox, click the switch to move the Dropbox icon from off to on. The switch should now turn blue.
A pop-up window will appear, prompting you to login to your Dropbox account. Feedly Vault is going to request access to create it’s own folder within your Dropbox. Click Allow.
You can choose to save your stories as an HTML file, US Letter PDF, or A4 PDF. Choose the format that is the easiest for you to use. and begin the backup.
Now, if you open up your Dropbox you should see a folder called Feedly Vault with all of your saved articles, tagged articles, and an OPML file.

07. Use IFTTT to automatically send saved stories to hundreds of other services

IFTTT integration is a great way to connect your feedly with hundreds of other services that feedly isn’t already integrated with. If you’ve connected your feedly with IFTTT, saving a story in feedly can act as a trigger for thousands of other actions with other web services. Here are a few examples:

Each time you save a story in feedly, add that story as a new row in a Google Spreadsheet
Saved stories in feedly are automatically saved to Pocket as well
Send stories Saved For Later as an automatic Tumblr blog post

Welcome to feedly Pro

feedly provides a great way for you to read and organize the content you find on the web. With feedly, you can easily share, save, and tag stories. With feedly Pro, you get even more features. View all of the features of feedly Pro here. We’ve summarized some of the biggest ones below.

01. Get new content faster

Now that you’ve upgraded to feedly Pro, we’re automatically polling your feeds 10x more frequently. There are two different types of sites: those with Push protocol and those with poll protocol. Sites with push protocol push new stories to feedly as soon as they’re published. Sites with poll protocol don’t automatically update their feeds with new content. When feedly polls your feeds, it goes to the original source to see if there is new content. This ensures that you get the freshest content in your feedly from all of your sources. This is all done automatically, for your benefit.

02. Search for a person, product, brand, or event on desktop

When you’ve upgraded to feedly Pro, you get all the features of Power Search, which includes filters that allow you to search for specific stories. We allow you to search within your feeds, which is useful for reading within the sources you follow and trust, and beyond your feedly, indexing the most popular sources on the web.

We have a full tutorial on everything on you can do with Power Search.

03. Search for a person, product, brand, or event on mobile

Power Search also works on mobile, with the exact same technology and filters you get on desktop.

04. Share a collection with a teammate or friend

As a feedly Pro user, you’ll have access to our newest feature, Shared Collections. You can create your own profile and share collections with your friends, teammates, and following. You’ll have your own alias (your own personal URL) and can add a profile and cover photo. You can also edit which collections you wish to make public. View our full tutorial on Shared Collections.

05. Schedule the content you want to share on social networks

Scheduling social media posts is great for pushing great pieces of content to your Twitter and LinkedIn without overflowing or spamming your contacts. Buffer and Hootsuite work great to schedule posts, and these two tools are integrated directly in feedly Pro. We also have a full tutorial on sharing.

06. One-click save to Evernote

feedly is especially useful for finding interesting content to use in projects. You can connect your feedly Pro account to Evernote to improve your productivity. You can do this simply with two clicks, without even having to open up your Evernote.

Similarly, we’ve just launched OneNote integration. Learn more about Evernote and OneNote in our full tutorial on saving.

07. Automate your work process with IFTTT

IFTTT integration with feedly is a powerful attribute of feedly Pro. IFTTT allows you to connect your feedly with other web services, such as Google Drive, Slack, and WordPress. There’s a full tutorial on what you can do with IFTTT, but here are some of the most productive use cases for professional users.

Add saved stories to a Google Spreadsheet
Get videos marked “Watch Later” in YouTube sent to your Saved For Later in feedly
Send stories with a particular tag to a specific channel in Slack

With feedly Pro, you can also connect to Zapier, a tool similar to IFTTT.

Manage content from everywhere with feedly Mini

Beyond being your personal work newsfeed, feedly is a powerful tool that can help you share great articles to social media, save content you want to read later, and organize stories with Collections and tags. With feedly Mini, you can do all of this outside your feedly page as well!

01. feedly Mini: an extension that brings feedly everywhere on the web

feedly Mini is a Google Chrome extension that keeps you connected to your feedly while you browse the web, allowing you to save, tag, share, or subscribe to the great content you find each day.

02. Set up feedly Mini on Chrome

You can find the feedly Mini extension on the Chrome Web Store when using Google Chrome on desktop. Installing feedly Mini allows you to use feedly’s tools without going to the actual site. Once you’ve installed it, the feedly icon will appear in the top right corner of your browser. If you click on it, feedly.com will open up in a new tab. A gray feedly icon will also appear in the bottom right corner of your screen. Click on it to see all the options that feedly Mini gives you.

03. Add any site on the web to your feedly

With feedly Mini, you can easily add any blog or publication that you find on the web. For instance, if you stumble upon a random site that you may want to come back to later, you can use feedly Mini to easily add it to your feedly, so it’s always easy to find their stories.

To use feedly Mini to automatically find a site’s feed, click on the gray feedly Mini icon at the bottom of your page and click on the green “+” button at the top of the popup menu. This will take you to that site’s page in feedly, where you can add it easily and keep an eye on the other great content they publish.

04. Save stories for later directly to your Saved For Later

feedly Mini automates the process of saving stories that you find on the web in your feedly. Instead of finding the story in feedly and adding it to your Saved For Later you can add a story directly using feedly Mini. Doing so will make the process much simpler and won’t disrupt your workflow as you’re reading on the web. To save a story with feedly mini, just click on the gray feedly icon at the bottom of your screen and click on the bookmark.

Pro tip: You can send stories that you save or tag through feedly Mini to other services, such as Google Spreadsheet and Evernote by using IFTTT! For instance, you can save a story with feedly Mini and automatically get it sent to a Google Spreadsheet. We have a full tutorial on IFTTT, but know that using feedly Mini with IFTTT gives you access to even more automation possibilities.

05. Share stories to Facebook and Twitter in just two clicks

Using feedly Mini also gives you the option of sharing stories easily, without opening a new window or the feedly website. You can share stories you read through Facebook and Twitter straight from the page your reading. All you have to do is click the gray feedly icon at the bottom of your screen, and select the sharing feature that you want to use.

Pro tip: If you’re favorite sharing feature doesn’t show up in feedly Mini, you can still automate the sharing process. Use IFTTT to automatically share stories to LinkedIn whenever you tag them. This seamless integration with IFTTT gives feedly Mini limitless possibilities. See our IFTTT tutorial for setup instructions.

Find and filter the best content on the web with Power Search

One of the most popular features of feedly Pro is the Power Search function, which gives you robust tools to find any piece of content from across the web. With Power Search, you can fine-tune your search results by searching for an author, searching specifically for videos, or searching within categories in feedly. For example, you can find the best reviews of a newly released product or monitor your brand within specific publications in a collection. The magic of searching on feedly is that you can search within the millions of sources that feedly is connected to, getting access to the millions of sources of content that make the quality and richness of the web.

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01. Search within your feedly

Whether you’re looking for investment tips from sources you follow in feedly, an in-depth product review, or credible information on trending topics, feedly makes it easy to narrow your search results and search within sites you specify.

If you are a PR manager, for instance, you can designate your top-tier publications in one collection, your second-tier publications in another, blogs in another, and TV stations in yet another. Then you can search for specific news or companies by collections to create your coverage reports.

You can also search across all of your collections using Search in My Feedly. This will bring up search results only from sites that you already follow in feedly and your search results won’t be cluttered by other publications.

To find this feature, click on the drop down options under Search in and select My Feedly.

02. Search beyond your feedly

You can also search for news and information beyond the publications and blogs you follow within your feedly by using Search Beyond My Feedly. Searching beyond your feedly draws from the most popular sources across the whole feedly community, Using the feedly search engine produces rich, highly specific content on the web.

Once you find a story that you like you can easily tag it or mark it as Saved For Later. This will save your article in your Saved For Later section. To search beyond your feedly, click on the drop down options under Search in and select Beyond My Feedly.

03. Search within your Saved For Later

You can use feedly’s Saved For Later tool to save stories you want to read later. As your Saved For Later section grows, you may want an easy way to find a specific article you’ve saved. With feedly’s Power Search, you can easily search for stories within your Saved For Later, by relying on the same filters and sorting tools from Power Search. It makes finding saved stories simple and fast.

To search within your Saved For Later, click on the drop down options under Search in and select Saved For Later.

Pro tip: You can use the “Search in” filter to search within a collection and within tags as well.

04. Powerful filters to narrow your search results

When you’re searching under stories in feedly, there are several powerful search filters to narrow your search results and find just what you’re looking for. You can search within tags or collections, within a specific time frame, or even look for specific media embedded in the search results (for instance, video).

Search Within: You can search within your different categories in feedly to get content that only certain publications you follow publish.
Time: You can define your search within today, the last seven days, the last 30 days, or forever, based on whether or not you’re looking for the most up-to-date news. Under the Time drop-down menu you can specify the time frame of your search.
Matching: You can search by either the author or the title. If you know the author’s name, you can specify that you only want to see articles written by that person by selecting “Author” from the dropdown menu under Matching. Similarly, you can select whether or not you want your search word to be in the title of the story by selecting “Title” in the same drop-down menu.
Sort By: With Sort By, search by popularity or chronologically. To read only the most popular stories, select Popularity in the Sort By drop-down menu. To see the most recent stories, select “Time: in the dropdown menu. This can be used for journalists who need to stay on top of recent, relevant news.
Embeds: feedly’s search also allows you to search specifically for stories with an image, video, audio, or document. To use this filter, select one of the options in the drop-down menu under Embeds. This can be useful for people looking across the web for video reviews, for instance.

05. Refine your search results with search operators

A search operator is something you can type into the search bar to modify your search results. Using these search operators can further refine your search results. You can specify exactly what you’re looking for and look for specific terms in your search results.

You can narrow your search results by using AND, OR, and NOT operators in the search bar. Using “AND” searches for stories that include two different topics. Using “OR” searches for stories related to one topic or another. Using “NOT” searches for one topic, but prevents another related topic from showing up in your search results.
Use parenthesis to tell feedly how to group your search operators. For instance, searching “iPad OR (iPhone AND Apple)” will give you stories that include both iPhonne and Apple or just iPad, whereas searching “(iPad OR iPhone) AND Apple” will give you stories that include all three.
Search with “+” and “-” to make your search results more specific. Doing so will add or delete certain topics in your search. For example, searching Apple -iPhone will show stories related to Apple, but without the word “iPhone”
To find an exact match for the phrase you’re searching for, use quotation marks. For instance searching “Taylor Swift” will give you results with the two words together, instead of an article with the two words separated – for instance, “Taylor Hansen is a swift runner.”
You can also search within a specific site. For instance, to search for stories from a particular TIME.com you could type into your search bar “site: TIME.com”.

06. Example: Find product reviews

Now that you know the in’s and out’s of using Power Search, it’s time to put that knowledge to good use. One of the best ways to use Power Search is to look for product reviews. Searching for these within feedly ensures that they are timely, relevant, and from reputable sources. For product reviews you’ll want to use the following filters:

Search In: Beyond My Feedly
Time: should match the amount of time the product has been out
Matching: Title
Sort by: Popularity

07. Example: Learn a new skill

Power Search is a great tool for finding stories that will teach you how to do something, whether it be simple, everyday tasks, or more complicated processes. Here are some filters you can use to get the best results. For learning a skill, it’ll be best to use these filters:

Search In: Beyond My Feedly
Time: Forever
Matching: Title

08. Example: Research a topic

Using feedly for research is powerful because the filters in Power Search give you incredibly refined search results.

Use Google tracking tools with your feedly

feedly can be a great tool to follow updates from Google News feeds in real time and get your Google Alerts delivered straight to where you get your news. You can set up Google News feeds directly from the feedly search box and you can use a Google Alert RSS feed to follow your Alerts in feedly. Set up these tools to track product mentions or updates from your industry or competitors.

01. Follow a topic through a Google News feed

One feature of Power Search is that you can search in feedly or search in Google News. Searching in Google News will give you results from news publications, while feedly’s Power Search will give you filterable stories from all over the web. With feedly, you can create a feed to track a topic as it appears in Google News.

For example, if you want to track what large publications are saying about Salesforce, you can search for it in Google News, then add this Google News stream as a feed to your feedly. Doing this will add a new story to your feedly whenever a new article about Salesforce appears in Google News. Here are two simple steps to create a Google News feed:

Search for a topic in the search bar in the upper right corner. Specify that you want to search “in Google News.”
Your search results will show up like any feed in feedly, with the topic you searched for at the top. Click the green +feedly icon to add it to a collection.

02. Stay up-to-date with Google Alerts

Another tool that is great for tracking is the Google Alert service. Google Alerts notifies you every time a specific person, topic, or brand is mentioned on the web, while a Google News feed find stories in Google news specific to that person, topic, or brand. Having Google Alerts allows you to stay on top of certain people or products so you can get up-to-date news to the minute.

Having Google Alerts in feedly is useful because you won’t have to check on multiple websites – everything is in one place, making it super easy to stay on top of things. In addition, sending your alerts to a feed is useful because it won’t clog up your email. Here’s how you can set up Google Alerts in feedly:

Go to www.google.com/alerts to go to your list of alerts or create an alert.
Click on the edit icon next to the alert that you want to add to your feedly. Where it says “Deliver to,” select “RSS feed.” You can also specify the type of alert and how often you want to receive alerts on this screen. When you’re done, click the blue Update alert button.
Click on the RSS feed icon to view the feed URL for your Google Alert. Copy and paste this URL into your search bar in feedly.
A site with your Google Alert will come up. Click the green add button and you’ll be able to access your Google Alerts in feedly!

03. Using Boolean operators to refine your Alerts and Google News feeds

Searching with certain modifiers in the search bar get you more refined results. However, not all boolean operators will work with Google News and Alerts. Here are some of the operators that do work:

AND and OR allows you to search two topics and tells the search engine whether you want your results to include both topics or either topic. For instance, you can search Salesforce AND Canon or Salesforce OR Canon
Use parenthesis to tell feedly how to group your search operators. For instance, you will get different results when you search “(iPad OR iPhone) AND Apple” and “iPad OR (iPhone AND Apple)”
Search with “+” and “-” to make your search results more specific. Doing so will add or delete topics in your search.
To find an exact match for the phrase you’re searching for, use quotation marks. For instance searching “marketing strategies” will give you more accurate results than just marketing strategies without the quotes.

Designing the future of the work newsfeed

Arthur, Head of Design

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

As human beings, our lives are shaped by the collection of experiences we live and the people we know.

One of the ways we broaden what we learn from others is by reading. Reading shapes what we know, who we are, how we see, and how we think. Reading is our silent teacher and mentor. It parents us. It’s on our team when we are are alone. It builds our character. It grows our person and intellect, around life and our life’s work. It is an age-old tradition that has transformed societies, started revolutions, and raised world changers. Reading empowers us to be more and to do more.

This is why at feedly we believe that reading is so powerful, especially when it comes to our professional lives. Magic moments manifest when people connect to new ideas through reading — which becomes the fodder for new ideas, innovations, and paradigm shifts. With the explosion of great content all over the web, this type of transformation through reading will only continue to accelerate and help us get better and better at what we do. In this sense, reading is more powerful than ever.

So we’ve dedicated ourselves to facilitating the productive, seamless integration of ideas, knowledge, and creativity, full of magic moments.

With feedly, we are building the “work newsfeed” — the most personalized way for the content you rely on to come to you, so that you can read important stories efficiently and deeply collaborate with other people on the web’s best ideas and inspiration. This more productive reading experience provides people a way to deeply personalize the news that they rely on. When reading on the web is truly personalized, it empowers people to get better at what they do and then put that content to work through a multitude of integrations with other services.

The open web is the best place to see content grow and it is made rich by the creators who contribute to it. So we also build tools that help publishers — small boutique bloggers and news giants alike — nurture and thrill their loyal readers.

But what does it mean to design for people looking for a modern reading experience? One that makes today’s content renaissance on the web clear and accessible and one that works across platforms and screens. In this mode of work, we face some specific challenges:

How do you create a truly personalized experience?

The web is a vast place, exploding with rich content. These experiences on the web really become powerful when they are personalized to us, especially when it comes to getting better at our jobs. This is why our goal at feedly is to create the most personalized news reading experience for the content that is important to us.

This “work newsfeed”—as we like to call it—should not only be filled with rich, high-definition information, free from distractions and noise. It should also allow us to be in the driver’s seat—to fully control what we read and how we want to read it.

With the boom of great content on the web, the ability to control, personalize, and organize that experience is more important than ever, but no product has really delivered it.

We have specific sources we want to read from—we like and trust some more than others—and we can’t merely trust any random algorithm to throw at us a bunch of stories related to our interest. We are more granular. We are more specific. We are more opinionated.

Over the past few years feedly has become a place where you can follow close to any source of content on the web, whether it’s a well-known publisher, a blogger, a YouTube channel, or Google search alerts. As part of the feedly experience, we have also created algorithms that suggest to people great related stories and publications you might like.

But there is so much more we could do. We could supercharge our suggestions and allow even more personalization. We could enhance how we rank the most important stories. We could create new, useful ways to let people define even better what they are trying to achieve with their reading.

How do you design the future of collaboration?

Steve Jobs once said that, “Creativity is about connecting the dots.” We think that reading is about generating these dots.

The most successful people are those who use the stories, insights, and new ideas they discover as inspiration to spark conversation and create something new.

This is why we are building feedly as the news feed with richest personalization tools and the strongest integrations with other web sources, so that you can put content to work. Reading is powerful, and it should be easily streamlined with everything we do — whether it’s saving stories for future reference, sending them to your team or manager, collaborating on the same key internet searches, empowering employees with the right stories, or leading the inspiring others through content.

Today feedly is connected to hundreds of popular services, including Evernote, Dropbox, Buffer, and IFTTT—and we consider this just the beginning. Creating an awesome collaboration experience is core to our roadmap because we believe the future is all about working together and working in teams, and we are excited to take part into shaping this future.

How do you optimize the content experience for all participants?

The popular phrase is true: Content is king.

As online engagement with quality content has soared, brands are becoming publishers, and publishers are becoming brands.

As a reading platform, feedly is in the center of this global trend. It is the watering hole where people come for focused web reading and where publishers can find tools to grow and nurture their most loyal followers.

At feedly we want to support the open web as a thriving ecosystem in which the reader and the publishers are meeting their deepest needs.

How do you use typography, color, and spacing as an ally in creating the best reading experience in the world? How do you balance the need for a focused, uncluttered interface while also presenting publishers, boutique bloggers, and the feedly brand in a beautiful way? We want to help everyone thrive.

So, join us!

There is a lot that we’ve done. But there is still so much more to be done.

We are looking for a product designer who expresses her/his design thinking into clean and efficient visual design (check out the job description here). Please get in touch with design@feedly.com if you’re interested. Attach your portfolio, what excites you about working at feedly, and what challenges you like to work on.

We are looking forward to making feedly even better and better every day.

– Arthur Bodolec, feedly designer/co-founder

Join feedly! We’re looking for designers

Are you a designer who loves to get inspired everyday and whose work is clean and helps people do things simply? Do you love to get feedback and iterate? Do you have experience working on desktop, iOS, and Android? Do you love building features no one else thought about from the ground up? Are you passionate about design and crafting beautiful things?

Let’s talk! We are looking for designers to join feedly.

About Us

feedly is your single place for all of the news, knowledge, and ideas you rely on to think, learn, and keep ahead. We build deeply personal web experiences by bringing the content that is important to you in your own work newsfeed.

Tasks

Redefine what reading is on the web and mobile by pushing the boundaries of design.
Bring innovative thinking, problem solving, and design solutions to the table.
Conduct user research and user testing with potential and existing users.
Design beautiful, clear, and consistent interfaces for our desktop, iOS, and Android apps.
Generate pixel-perfect production assets.
Generate comprehensive information architecture, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes for iOS, Android, and desktop.
Present your work effectively and articulately communicate design rationale to the team.
Help craft the design team as it grows.

Must have’s

2+ years of applied product design experience.
Ability to design for any platform (iOS, Android, mobile web, etc.).
A passion for listening to user feedback and iterating.
Strong information design skills with a solid foundation in UX design heuristics.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
You love making things beautiful, and you have a strong understanding of composition, balance, symmetry, and whitespace.
Mastery of design tools: Sketch, Illustrator, Photoshop.
Experience with prototyping tools such as Framer, Pixate, Origami, HTML/CSS/JS, After Effects, Swift.
Ability to generate pixel-perfect production assets.
Superb attention to detail.
Ability to work well on an ego-free, highly collaborative, and cross-functional and very experienced team.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment.
You see yourself in our core values.
- Something magical happens when you find the right piece of content.
- Design like you are right, listen like you are wrong.
- See crisis as opportunity.
- Frugality is fun.
- Details matter.
- Be humble.

Nice to have

Experience doing motion design would be great.
Expertise with html and CSS absolutely amazing.

Location

You will be working from our Palo Alto office, though you will be able to work from our San Francisco office two to three times a week or work from home some days.

Interested? Please send an email to design@feedly.com and include a link to your work.

feedly + Google Now: Your most important stories, when you want them

Feedly and Google have been collaborating on integrating feedly into Google Now so that your most important stories surface in your Google Now stream. We recently rolled out this feature in beta and are seeing a high 14% tap-through rate with the feedly cards. We are excited to announce that the feature is now being rolled out to everyone.

Your important stories come to you

We believe reading sparks magic moments when ideas, knowledge, and creativity seamlessly come together. It’s the core reason why we work so hard to make feedly the most efficient way to personalize and read the content that’s important to you.

We spend a lot of time talking to our users, and we know that most of you weave what you read into your everyday life—to get better at what you do, to keep you ahead of what’s going on, to stay inspired, to learn new things, and be productive. We know that the ability to personalize this experience—when and how you get your news—and to integrate it with other services you use is just as important.

Google Now allows you to easily access specific information in the time and place that it’s most useful to you. As we keep expanding the number of integrations available to feedly users, Google Now seemed like a fitting service for our users, so that you can easily have the stories you need the most come to you, without you having to look for it yourself.

With feedly Now cards, feedly will find the trending stories in the publications you follow and surface them to you throughout the day through Google Now. And you can personalize this experience even more: If you have favorite publications or blogs that you’d love to see in Google Now, you can tell us to follow these stories more closely by marking those sources as must-read in your feedly.

For instance, if you are a PR manager in tech, you can mark the top-tier tech blogs as “must read,” so that breaking stories automagically come to you. Or if you are a physician following the latest in, say, pediatrics or infectious diseases, you can mark your favorite journals as must-read, so that the big stories from these favorite sources surface in your Google Now stream.

Turn it on!

To start seeing feedly Now cards, please make sure you have the latest Google app and feedly app installed on your Android device and are logged into feedly.com. Simply tap the blue Google app icon to see your Now cards. You’re good to go!

feedly for Android

(You can also opt out by clicking the settings icon next to the feedly Now card in the Google Now app. Go here to learn more about turning off Google Now cards.)

Open Design Contest / Win feedly Pro lifetime

We would love to hear from the feedly community about how we could improve the personalization engine powering this feature and give you more control over which stories should be surfaced in Google Now. Please leave some suggestions by commenting on this blog post, and we’ll pick two of our favorite suggestions, implement them, and offer a lifetime feedly Pro subscription to the lucky people who suggested them!

We’ll use all of your feedback, so that we can iterate quickly on the next version of feedly Now cards, which we plan to push soon.

Enjoy!
David and Noelle