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Using feedly’s Must Read option to your advantage

As part of our promise to offer you rich personalization, we are giving you the option of promoting feeds you think are important to Must Reads. Promoting a feed to Must Read has three benefits:

It will create a separate Must Reads section where you can make sure you do not miss a single story from your Must Reads sites.
It will increase the chances for the stories from that feed to be recommended in your feedly home.
It will increase the chances for stories from that feed to be surfaced in your Google Now.

The Must Read feature is a great way for you to tell feedly which feeds are most important to you and to keep on top of those feeds.

01. Promoting feeds to Must Read on desktop

Some publications and blogs that you follow may fill your feedly with posts that are “just for fun,” while others may post content that is crucial to your job. For these important sites, you can set them as Must Read, so you can make sure you see every single story that comes out.

Decide which publication or blog you want to promote to Must Read. We suggest feeds that are relevant, boost productivity and publish a manageable amount of content.
If haven’t already added that site to your feedly, you’ll have the option of promoting it to Must Read on the left pop-up tab when you add it to your feedly.
If you’ve already added the publication to your feedly, click on it in the left-hand navigation panel and click on at the top of their page.
Towards the bottom of the drop down menu, click on Edit Subscription. This will open up the same screen that comes up when you first add a publication or blog to your feedly. Here, you can change the title of the feed that appears in your feedly and the Collection in which you put it.
Right under the Title space is an option to select Must Read. Check marking it puts the site in the Must Read section so you’ll never miss a story.
To remove a publication or blog from Must Read, click on at the top of that site’s page in feedly, and click on Edit Subscription in the dropdown menu. In the same place where you marked it as Must Read, deselect that box to take the publication or blog out of your Must Reads.

02. Promoting to Must Read on mobile

A little feedly fun fact: Promoting a site to Must Read was something that was originally specific to mobile. Here’s how to use this feature on mobile:

Go to the site’s page on feedly mobile.
Click on at the top of the screen, then select Promote to Must Read. This will put that site under your Must Reads in feedly, so you can always stay up to date with that particular publication.
To demote a site from Must Read, just click the same setting icon on the same page and select Undo Must Read.

03. Accessing all your Must Reads

Congratulations on promoting the most important sites you read to Must Read. Now you’ll want to find your Must Reads section so you can read every single story and not fall behind. Here’s how you can access it:

On desktop and mobile, setting just one site as Must Read automatically creates a section in the main navigation called Must Reads. You can access your Must Reads by clicking on Must Reads towards the top of your navigation bar.
You don’t have to read all the publications you’ve marked as Must Read together. You can also use your Must Read section to read from any one publication in that section. This makes the publications that are important to you even easier to find. You can do that on feedly Mobile by clicking the next to Must Reads in the left-hand navigation menu. A list of the sites you’ve marked as Must Read will drop down and you can select the most relevant site from there.
To open Must Reads automatically when you login to feedly, got to Preferences at the bottom of the navigation bar. The first section asks you what page you would like to load when you start feedly. Select Must Reads.

04. The impact of Must Read feeds on Google Now recommendations

Promoting a site to Must Read will impact the likelihood of its articles coming up in your Google Now recommendations. With Must Read, you can personalize your Google Now to deliver the content that is most important to you

First, let’s understand how Google Now works. Throughout the day, we select stories from your feedly to show up as a card in Google Now. We make this selection based on whether the story comes from a feed promoted as Must Read and whether the story’s more popular than other stories the site has published.

Thus, promoting a site to Must Read will increase the chance that their articles will appear as a cards in Google Now.

Here’s an example of how the engine could work: If there are two stories that are contenders for the Google Now card, we’ll select the one that’s in your Must Reads. If two stories are in your Must Reads, we’ll select the most popular one to come up in your Google Now.

So you can help tell the feedly engine which sites are most important to you by promoting them as Must Reads to increase the likelihood that we show you a feedly card from that publication or blog.

Using feedly’s Must Read option to your advantage

As part of our promise to offer you rich personalization, we are giving you the option of promoting feeds you think are important to Must Reads. Promoting a feed to Must Read has three benefits:

It will create a separate Must Reads section where you can make sure you do not miss a single story from your Must Reads sites.
It will increase the chances for the stories from that feed to be recommended in your feedly home.
It will increase the chances for stories from that feed to be surfaced in your Google Now.

The Must Read feature is a great way for you to tell feedly which feeds are most important to you and to keep on top of those feeds.

01. Promoting feeds to Must Read on desktop

Decide which publication or blog you want to promote to Must Read. We suggest feeds that are relevant, boost productivity and publish a manageable amount of content.
If haven’t already added that site to your feedly, you’ll have the option of promoting it to Must Read on the left pop-up tab when you add it to your feedly.
If you’ve already added the publication to your feedly, click on it in the left-hand navigation panel and click on at the top of their page.
Towards the bottom of the drop down menu, click on Edit Subscription. This will open up the same screen that comes up when you first add a publication or blog to your feedly. Here, you can change the title of the feed that appears in your feedly and the Collection in which you put it.
Right under the Title space is an option to select Must Read. Check marking it puts the site in the Must Read section so you’ll never miss a story.
To remove a publication or blog from Must Read, click on at the top of that site’s page in feedly, and click on Edit Subscription in the dropdown menu. In the same place where you marked it as Must Read, deselect that box to take the publication or blog out of your Must Reads.

02. Promoting to Must Read on mobile

A little feedly fun fact: Promoting a site to Must Read was something that was originally specific to mobile. Here’s how to use this feature on mobile:

Go to the site’s page on feedly mobile.
Click on at the top of the screen, then select Promote to Must Read. This will put that site under your Must Reads in feedly, so you can always stay up to date with that particular publication.
To demote a site from Must Read, just click the same setting icon on the same page and select Undo Must Read.

03. Accessing all your Must Reads

On desktop and mobile, setting just one site as Must Read automatically creates a section in the main navigation called Must Reads. You can access your Must Reads by clicking on Must Reads towards the top of your navigation bar.
You don’t have to read all the publications you’ve marked as Must Read together. You can also use your Must Read section to read from any one publication in that section. This makes the publications that are important to you even easier to find. You can do that on feedly Mobile by clicking the next to Must Reads in the left-hand navigation menu. A list of the sites you’ve marked as Must Read will drop down and you can select the most relevant site from there.
To open Must Reads automatically when you login to feedly, got to Preferences at the bottom of the navigation bar. The first section asks you what page you would like to load when you start feedly. Select Must Reads.

04. The impact of Must Read feeds on Google Now recommendations

Thus, promoting a site to Must Read will increase the chance that their articles will appear as a cards in Google Now.

So you can help tell the feedly engine which sites are most important to you by promoting them as Must Reads to increase the likelihood that we show you a feedly card from that publication or blog.

Introducing new feedly tutorials

Two of the biggest things we care about at feedly are taking care of our community of users and making your feedly experience as personal as possible. We’ve been listening to some of your questions about how to best use all the features we offer, and based on your feedback, we’re excited to start releasing a set of tutorials to make your feedly experience easier, more productive and more personalized.

We’ve created a wide variety of tutorials to serve everyone from the newbie to the power user. We will be publishing some tutorials specific to feedly Pro which will focus on productivity workflows to make sure Pro users get the full bang for their buck. In addition, we’ve created tutorials on getting started and customizing your feedly for our newer users. These tutorials will teach you something new about building your feedly, searching, sharing and saving.

We will be publishing these new tutorials over the coming weeks, starting with our first tutorial: How to get started with feedly. Find these Tutorials under the “Tutorials” tab on our blog. You can subscribe to these tutorials on your feedly at https://feedly.com/i/subscription/feed/http://blog.feedly.com/category/tutorials/feed/.

Coming soon are tips and tricks on feedly Mini, Power Search and IFTTT.

Community Feedback

If you have ideas or requests about tutorials you’d like to see in the future, please leave them in the comments below. We read every comment and would love to take this opportunity to answer as many questions as possible from the community.

Introducing new feedly tutorials

Coming soon are tips and tricks on feedly Mini, Power Search and IFTTT.

Community Feedback

Five ways you can use IFTTT and feedly

What is 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.

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.
Get to the feedly channel in IFTTT by clicking on Channels in the top navigation and searching for feedly. Click to connect your feedly
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.

Click on My Recipes in the top navigation and click on Create a Recipe.
For “this”, choose feedly and select the trigger “New articles saved for later.”
For “that”, choose Google Drive and select the action “Add row to spreadsheet.” You may need to connect your Google account.
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.
Review the recipe you’ve created, and when you’re ready click Create Recipe.

02. Tweet stories with a specific tag in feedly

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.

For “this”, choose feedly and select the trigger “New article tagged.” Select one of your feedly tags and create the trigger.
For “that”, choose Twitter and select the action “Post a tweet.”
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

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:

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.
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

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.

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.”
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

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.

For “this”, choose YouTube, with the trigger “New watch later video.”
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

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.

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.”
Once you’ve found the site you’re looking for click the green plus button . You can choose which of your Collections to add the site to or create a new Collection.
Now you can find even more blogs and publications to add to your feedly!

02 Explore a topic

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.

Go to feedly.com and click Add Content.
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!
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.
When you find a blog that you want in your feed you can click the green plus button and you will see steps to sign up with feedly through your Google or Facebook.
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:

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.
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.
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 or .
Preview what that Collection would look like in your feedly. Like what you see? Add it! 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.

Search for the URL in feedly’s search bar. For exact matches, select http://www.time.com sites.
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 . 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.
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/.
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 in the bottom right hand corner, then click the , which will take you back to the feedly website. Learn how to activate feedly Mini.

05 Adding YouTube channels to your feedly

Watching 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.

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.
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.

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.
Now, open feedly.com and click on Organize at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu.
Click on at the top of the page, then find the .xml document you downloaded from YouTube. When you’re ready, click .

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

Examples of completed feedlys

6 ways to get the right content on your feedly

01 Search for a site you already know

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.”
Once you’ve found the site you’re looking for click the green plus button . You can choose which of your Collections to add the site to or create a new Collection.
Now you can find even more blogs and publications to add to your feedly!

02 Explore a topic

Go to feedly.com and click Add Content.
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!
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.
When you find a blog that you want in your feed you can click the green plus button and you will see steps to sign up with feedly through your Google or Facebook.
Once you’ve created an account, you can add unlimited content to your feedly.

03 See what thought leaders read with Curated Collections

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.
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.
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 or .
Preview what that Collection would look like in your feedly. Like what you see? Add it! 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.

Search for the URL in feedly’s search bar. For exact matches, select http://www.time.com sites.
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 . 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.
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/.
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 in the bottom right hand corner, then click the , which will take you back to the feedly website. Learn how to activate feedly Mini.

05 Adding YouTube channels to your feedly

There are two ways of adding YouTube channels to your feedly.

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.
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.

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.
Now, open feedly.com and click on Organize at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu.
Click on at the top of the page, then find the .xml document you downloaded from YouTube. When you’re ready, click .

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

Examples of completed feedlys

Feedly Mini is back [Chrome]

feedly Mini is back!

Our popular web browsing companion is officially relaunching today with a brand new user interface and a suite of new features. feedly Mini is a Chrome extension that keeps you connected to your feedly as you browse, allowing you to save, tag, share or subscribe to the great content you find each day.

A big thank you to all the users to participated to the beta program.

Get feedly Mini for Chrome

Frequently Asked Questions

Does feedly Mini work on every site?

feedly Mini should show up on most of the sites you browse allowing you to share, save or subscribe to new content — you can even save articles from sites you’re not already subscribed to. However, feedly Mini has a blacklist of sites where it shouldn’t appear, so you can specify sites on which you don’t want feedly Mini to appear (see Options to edit the blacklist). Feedly Mini will also not appear on sites that use HTTPS (SSL).

Can I disable feedly Mini?

Yes. Click on the feedly mini icon, select the gear option and you will find a checkbox that let’s enable/disable feedly Mini.

Will feedly Mini be available on Firefox or Safari?

feedly Mini is currently available only as an extension for the Chrome web browser. We’re evaluating which other browsers we should support in future releases. Please let us know in the comments below what browsers you use.

Does feedly Mini collect any information about my browsing history?

No. We value your privacy and will not collect any information about the sites you browse while feedly Mini is active.

Why doesn’t feedly Mini work on HTTPS pages?

We are just being extra cautious: we do not want to interfere with HTTPS pages and we do not want users to grant us access to HTTPS pages.