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Customize your feedly with the look and feel that best suits you

One of the most important things we strive for at feedly is to enable you to make your feedly as personal as possible. Content-wise, you can do this by finding the best content based on your needs, interests, Must Read sources, and by connecting feedly to your favorite saving and sharing channels. Beyond that, you can customize your feedly even more by changing the look to what best suits your reading style.

We have seven suggestions for you to customize your feedly and make it your very own. Explore even more possibilities in the Preferences section of your feedly, at the bottom of the left-hand navigation panel, or if you’re on mobile, looking for the settings button.

01. What shows up when you open feedly.com

The default start page for feedly is Home, which shows articles from all of your Collections in feedly, in the order that you’ve organized them. To improve your productivity, it might be helpful to have your feedly open to your Must Reads so you can immediately scan your most important content. To change your start page, click on Preferences at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu and choose from the Start Page options at the top of the screen.

Home – the top articles from all of your collections, organized by category. Sites promoted to Must Read are more likely to appear in your feedly Home.
Must Reads – aggregates all the publications and blogs you have marked as Must Read so you don’t miss anything from them. This is only available on Mobile at the moment
All – shows every single story from all of the sites you follow in feedly, so you won’t miss a single one.
Index – shows the names your Collections and sites within them, with the unread article count on the right. This serves as a good overview of everything you have in your feedly.

02. Change how your stories look in your Collections

People use feedly for different reasons, and each of your collections may serve a different purpose. One could be full of good reads, another could be necessary to your job, and another could be essential to read every single article regarding a particular topic. Change the view of each collection to fit your working and reading style.

You can modify each collection one-by-one by clicking on the setting icon at the top of the page. Change the view of all of your Collections at once by clicking on Preferences at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu and changing the Default View to whatever best suits your reading style. There are five different views you can choose from:

Title only – This presents the stories in a long list, so that you can easily see if you have any unreads. It’s similar to how an email inbox would look. We suggest this view for users that need to read every single story in their Collection
Magazine – The magazine view is feedly’s default view. The three most popular stories in each collection appear at the top of the page, and the rest are listed with a photo on the left side, plus a small excerpt from the story to capture attention. This makes it easy to scan stories both for good visuals and for good content.
Cards – Stories are presented as cards in a three-columns view, with a photo to capture attention. This view works well if you like to read stories that involve a lot of graphics, like design or photography.
Full articles – This is a blog-type view. Each story is presented in full so that all you have to do keep scrolling down to read them all, no clicking involved. However, with so much content, it can be difficult to see where each story starts and ends. Full article view is good for users who need to read every single article in a particular collection.
Grouped by feeds – This organizes all your stories based on the site they are from. If, for instance, you want to look at the design blogs you follow in feedly for inspiration but you don’t want them to get mixed up, organize your collection by feed.

03. Add, delete, and edit your collections and feeds

From the Organize page, you can do other useful things, such as changing the name of a collection or blog, moving blogs between collections and deleting collections or blogs. Unfortunately, right now it is not possible to change the order that blogs appear within each collection.

To change the name of a publication or blog in one of your collections, click the edit icon next to each publication or blog.
To move a publication or blog to a different collection, simply drag and drop it into the Collection that makes the most sense to you. When you first add a site to your collection, you also have the option of adding it to more than one collection.
To delete a collection or a blog, simply click the “x” next to it’s name. Another way to delete a publication or blog is by going on their page in feedly and removing through the setting icon at the top of their page in feedly.

04. Organize your Collections with a hierarchy that makes sense to you

Feedly’s goal is to personalize what you read to maximize your productivity, so the best way to make use of your feedly is by ordering sites and categories with a hierarchy that makes sense to you. You can list your more important collections at the top, or organize them based on content.

There are two ways to do this:

In the left-hand navigation menu, reorganize your Collections by clicking and dragging each one up and down until you find an order you like. The only category that will stay fixed is “Uncategorized,” which will always be at the bottom. (Shown above)
Click Organize at the bottom of your left-hand navigation menu. This will take you to a page where you will see each of your Collections laid out in boxes. Drag each box to a place that suits your visual and working needs.

05. Edit your Marked as Read settings

Feedly serves as a tool for millions of readers from all over. Some of those readers prefer if the unread article count is always at a nice, fresh “zero” while others don’t care. With feedly, you can mark and unmark certain articles as read. Usually, once you’ve read an article in feedly it’ll show up as unread by displaying a gray headline instead of a black one. This is helpful if you want to read every single article in a Collection. But sometimes reading every single one can be a little overwhelming, especially if your unread article count is in the hundreds. There are several ways to mark read articles that you haven’t actually read.

Click on the settings icon at the top of your screen. In the Mark As Read section you can change the amount of time past which you would like an articles to be marked as read. Clicking “All” in the Marked As Read section marks all unread articles in that collection as read.
Click the checkmark at the top of your collection. A popup will ask you if you are sure you want to mark the entire category as read. You can prevent this popup from appearing again by changing your Mark As Read Preferences.
To change the settings for all of your Collections at once click on Preferences at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu. Scroll down until you see the Marked As Read section, about halfway down the page. Change these settings based on what you think works best for your reading style.
Click the unread count in the left-hand navigation menu where all of your Collections are listed. If you hover over the number it will appear with a slash through it, indicating it will mark as
To mark all articles in your feedly as read, click on the unread count or the circle next to All in the left-hand navigation menu. This is a good way of starting fresh for inbox-zero users.You can turn off this setting by selecting No for the option Mark as read in navigation bar

06. Personalize the color of your navigation menu

feedly’s default colors are white and gray, creating a minimalist look. You can spice up your feedly to match your creative persona be changing the color of the navigation bar. Click on Themes at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu and choose your favorite color to use for your feedly. The default is set to Modern Gray.

07. Change the font and font size to improve readability

Some people read more productively with different fonts, and certain fonts are easier to read than others. We allow you to personalize your fonts in feedly to maximize your experience and efficiency. To do this, click on Preferences in at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu and scroll down to a section called Reading Experience. Here, you can change the font, the font size and the density of the text.

08. Change the color of read and unread articles

If you’re trying to read every single article in a feed, it might s be helpful to change the color of unread articles to something that will catch your attention. Make your feedly experience personal by changing it to your favorite color or any color that makes readability easier for you. You can match this to the theme you’ve selected to make your feedly more aesthetically pleasing.

Click on Preferences at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu and look for the part that says Unread Links color.
You can change the #222222 to whatever you want. For instance putting in the code #f80808 changes the color of unread articles to red. Find more codes here!
You can also change the Read Links Color right above the Unread Links color. Just put in a different code where #888888 is now.

Customize your feedly with the look and feel that best suits you

01. What shows up when you open feedly.com

Home – the top articles from all of your collections, organized by category. Sites promoted to Must Read are more likely to appear in your feedly Home.
Must Reads – aggregates all the publications and blogs you have marked as Must Read so you don’t miss anything from them. This is only available on Mobile at the moment
All – shows every single story from all of the sites you follow in feedly, so you won’t miss a single one.
Index – shows the names your Collections and sites within them, with the unread article count on the right. This serves as a good overview of everything you have in your feedly.

02. Change how your stories look in your Collections

Title only – This presents the stories in a long list, so that you can easily see if you have any unreads. It’s similar to how an email inbox would look. We suggest this view for users that need to read every single story in their Collection
Magazine – The magazine view is feedly’s default view. The three most popular stories in each collection appear at the top of the page, and the rest are listed with a photo on the left side, plus a small excerpt from the story to capture attention. This makes it easy to scan stories both for good visuals and for good content.
Cards – Stories are presented as cards in a three-columns view, with a photo to capture attention. This view works well if you like to read stories that involve a lot of graphics, like design or photography.
Full articles – This is a blog-type view. Each story is presented in full so that all you have to do keep scrolling down to read them all, no clicking involved. However, with so much content, it can be difficult to see where each story starts and ends. Full article view is good for users who need to read every single article in a particular collection.
Grouped by feeds – This organizes all your stories based on the site they are from. If, for instance, you want to look at the design blogs you follow in feedly for inspiration but you don’t want them to get mixed up, organize your collection by feed.

03. Add, delete, and edit your collections and feeds

To change the name of a publication or blog in one of your collections, click the edit icon next to each publication or blog.
To move a publication or blog to a different collection, simply drag and drop it into the Collection that makes the most sense to you. When you first add a site to your collection, you also have the option of adding it to more than one collection.
To delete a collection or a blog, simply click the “x” next to it’s name. Another way to delete a publication or blog is by going on their page in feedly and removing through the setting icon at the top of their page in feedly.

04. Organize your Collections with a hierarchy that makes sense to you

There are two ways to do this:

In the left-hand navigation menu, reorganize your Collections by clicking and dragging each one up and down until you find an order you like. The only category that will stay fixed is “Uncategorized,” which will always be at the bottom. (Shown above)
Click Organize at the bottom of your left-hand navigation menu. This will take you to a page where you will see each of your Collections laid out in boxes. Drag each box to a place that suits your visual and working needs.

05. Edit your Marked as Read settings

Click on the settings icon at the top of your screen. In the Mark As Read section you can change the amount of time past which you would like an articles to be marked as read. Clicking “All” in the Marked As Read section marks all unread articles in that collection as read.
Click the checkmark at the top of your collection. A popup will ask you if you are sure you want to mark the entire category as read. You can prevent this popup from appearing again by changing your Mark As Read Preferences.
To change the settings for all of your Collections at once click on Preferences at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu. Scroll down until you see the Marked As Read section, about halfway down the page. Change these settings based on what you think works best for your reading style.
Click the unread count in the left-hand navigation menu where all of your Collections are listed. If you hover over the number it will appear with a slash through it, indicating it will mark as
To mark all articles in your feedly as read, click on the unread count or the circle next to All in the left-hand navigation menu. This is a good way of starting fresh for inbox-zero users.You can turn off this setting by selecting No for the option Mark as read in navigation bar

06. Personalize the color of your navigation menu

07. Change the font and font size to improve readability

08. Change the color of read and unread articles

Click on Preferences at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu and look for the part that says Unread Links color.
You can change the #222222 to whatever you want. For instance putting in the code #f80808 changes the color of unread articles to red. Find more codes here!
You can also change the Read Links Color right above the Unread Links color. Just put in a different code where #888888 is now.

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.

Tips and tricks for using feedly mobile

In this world of technology, we spend more and more time on our mobile devices. Messaging, emailing, reading – everything on the web is available to us with a swipe on a screen. Likewise, feedly is available on the go, so you can access the news that matters to you anywhere, anytime.

feedly is available on desktop, as well as through iOS and Android apps. With the feedly app, you can access all of your Collections on your phone wherever you go, so that you’re always learning and being productive. Whether you use feedly on desktop or on mobile your content is always synchronized.

Once you’ve downloaded and logged in to feedly on your mobile device, it can take time to find the setup that works best for you. Here are some useful tips to get you started with feedly mobile.

01. Adding content on feedly mobile

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To add content on mobile, click on the search icon in the upper right corner to explore all the content on feedly. If you already have something in mind, go ahead and search for it.
1. Tip: You can search for either a topic or a specific site, just as on your desktop.
If you’ve logged in with Facebook or Twitter, below the search bar we’ll present a few topics that we think you might be interested in, based on your Facebook or Twitter profile. Explore these topics to find great content in feedly.
If you’re not quite sure what you’re looking for, scroll through our list of popular topics beneath your personalized topics for inspiration. Clicking any of these topics gives you a list of popular sites related to your topic. Browse these sites until you find one you like, then click the plus icon to add it to your feedly.

02. Home: a digest from all your Collections

Home the page that opens immediately when you open the feedly app on your mobile device. It is a compilation of all the Collections you have created and added to your feedly. Home is designed to give you a quick overview by displaying the most popular stories in each Collection, while taking into account your Must Read preferences.

03. All: all of the stories from all of your Collections

Clicking on All in feedly mobile gives you a list of all of your stories in feedly, with the newest stories first by default. This way, you can see every single story from all of the publications you follow. By default, All in mobile shows the latest stories. If you want to see the oldest stories first, click on the settings icon at the top and change that preference.

From both feedly All and Home, you can access the search function and the main navigation bar on the left.

04. Gestures: simple shortcuts in mobile

Using gestures in feedly mobile really helps to maximize productivity, and speeds up many actions on feedly mobile. The least amount of swipes, the better. Below are gestures from Home and feedly All.

Tap a story to open it
Tap and hold a story to mark it as Saved For Later. This will also save a story to your preferred saving feature.*
Short swipe left an story to mark it as read. These swipes should last for half the screen. A story’s title will become gray when it was been marked as read. (Swipe right to undo)
Long swipe left to mark all stories on that screen as read. A long swipe should cover almost the entire screen. When all of the stories are marked as read all of their titles will be gray. (Long swipe right to undo)
Swipe down to refresh. This will only work if you’re viewing the first card in a category.
Left edge swipe opens the navigation panel.
Right edge swipe opens the explore section

Once you tap on a story and you’re in your “reading mode,” you’ll want to know some simple tricks of the trade for using feedly mobile. Below are the main gestures to navigate within an story:

Swipe left and swipe right to move between stories
Swipe up when you reach the bottom of a story to close it*
Double tap to close a story*
Right edge swipe to close a story*

*You can activate and deactivate these gestures under settings in the main navigation.

05. Removing feeds on mobile

As with all other aspects of feedly, we want you to be able to customize your feedly to match the way you work, to maximize your productivity. Setting these settings to what works for you will make your experience useful, comfortable, and productive. Here are two suggestions for you to make your feedly your own.

Remove a feed from mobile. Sometimes, there is one source that consistently comes up in your feedly and annoys you. Rather than logging in on desktop to get rid of it, you can remove it right from your mobile device. Go to the main navigation bar and click on Edit Content. Here, you can remove feeds. However, you must be on desktop to reorder your categories or rename sites and Collections as they appear in your feedly for now.

06. Personalize the saving feature

There are many saving features in feedly, including Pocket, Evernote and Saved For Later in feedly. Tapping and holding in list view will save an article, but you can choose where you want to save the article. Here are four easy steps to personalize where you save articles.

Click on Settings in the main navigation bar.
You can select your favorite saving tool based on what you read most. Choose from feedly, Pocket, Instapaper, Evernote and OneNote.
Once you’ve chosen your tool you can go back to the list of articles, then tap and hold to save an article to the saving tool of your choice!

Pro tip: you can connect feedly to services like IFTTT and Zapier to better automate your workflow. Automatically send saved stories in feedly to a Google spreadsheet or to Dropbox using IFTTT.

07. Tagging stories in feedly mobile

Using the tagging feature in feedly is useful because it allows you to put a set of stories from many different sites into one category in feedly so you can come back and see all of your related stories in one place. This will help increase productivity and make reading in feedly more efficient for you. For instance, if you want to collect a lot of stories about investment you can create a tag called “investment” and come back to it from any device whenever you’re ready. You can tag an article by clicking the three dots at the top of a story and selecting Tag. There is no limit to the number of tags you can create!

Pro tip: like with saving, you can use IFTTT and Zapier to automate your workflow with tagging stories. IFTTT gives you a recipe that tweets stories when you tag them in feedly.

08. Change the way stories appear in feedly

Depending on what you are using each Collection for, different views will be useful for each Collection. Just as on desktop, feedly mobile supports different views, each with a different purpose. To change the view, click on the settings icon at the top of category. There are four views you can select from:

Title only – this presents the articles in a long list, so that you can easily see if you have any unread articles. We suggest this view for users that need to read every article in their Collection
List view – Stories in list view are presented with just the title and a photo on the side, making it very scannable.
Magazine view– This is feedly’s default view. Stories are presented with a title and photo, and the first few lines of the story. This is also very easy to scan.
Card view – The main visual is shown on the entire screen, making is good for visual collections, like food and design.

09. Open stories directly in your web browser

You can also change the settings of any category to open a story in the browser directly, which is useful for sites that are only partial feeds in feedly. Note, however, that some sites may load slower than others if they are not optimized for mobile. To activate this function, click on the settings icon at the top of your feedly All and select Open Webpage Directly. From now on, whenever you click on stories from feedly All, it will take you to the source’s website. You can activate this setting for each Collection or site as well.

10. Auto Mark as read

Another useful feature is the Auto mark as read on scroll. Activating this tells feedly to mark a story as read when you scroll past it as your browsing. This is useful for people who use feedly as an “inbox 0” tool and need to know whenever there is new content that hasn’t been looked at. To activate this option, go to your settings in the main navigation bar and select Auto Mark as Read. Remember, because your content is synchronized, marking articles as read on mobile will mark them as read on desktop as well.

Now that you know how to use feedly on desktop and mobile, learn more about finding content to add to your feedly.

Tips and tricks for using feedly mobile

Once you’ve downloaded and logged in to feedly on your mobile device, it can take time to find the setup that works best for you. Here are some useful tips to get you started with feedly mobile.

01. Adding content on feedly mobile

Screen Shot 2015-07-24 at 3.21.36 PM

To add content on mobile, click on the search icon in the upper right corner to explore all the content on feedly. If you already have something in mind, go ahead and search for it.
1. Tip: You can search for either a topic or a specific site, just as on your desktop.
If you’ve logged in with Facebook or Twitter, below the search bar we’ll present a few topics that we think you might be interested in, based on your Facebook or Twitter profile. Explore these topics to find great content in feedly.
If you’re not quite sure what you’re looking for, scroll through our list of popular topics beneath your personalized topics for inspiration. Clicking any of these topics gives you a list of popular sites related to your topic. Browse these sites until you find one you like, then click the plus icon to add it to your feedly.

02. Home: a digest from all your Collections

03. All: all of the stories from all of your Collections

From both feedly All and Home, you can access the search function and the main navigation bar on the left.

04. Gestures: simple shortcuts in mobile

Tap a story to open it
Tap and hold a story to mark it as Saved For Later. This will also save a story to your preferred saving feature.*
Short swipe left an story to mark it as read. These swipes should last for half the screen. A story’s title will become gray when it was been marked as read. (Swipe right to undo)
Long swipe left to mark all stories on that screen as read. A long swipe should cover almost the entire screen. When all of the stories are marked as read all of their titles will be gray. (Long swipe right to undo)
Swipe down to refresh. This will only work if you’re viewing the first card in a category.
Left edge swipe opens the navigation panel.
Right edge swipe opens the explore section

Swipe left and swipe right to move between stories
Swipe up when you reach the bottom of a story to close it*
Double tap to close a story*
Right edge swipe to close a story*

*You can activate and deactivate these gestures under settings in the main navigation.

05. Removing feeds on mobile

Remove a feed from mobile. Sometimes, there is one source that consistently comes up in your feedly and annoys you. Rather than logging in on desktop to get rid of it, you can remove it right from your mobile device. Go to the main navigation bar and click on Edit Content. Here, you can remove feeds. However, you must be on desktop to reorder your categories or rename sites and Collections as they appear in your feedly for now.

06. Personalize the saving feature

Click on Settings in the main navigation bar.
You can select your favorite saving tool based on what you read most. Choose from feedly, Pocket, Instapaper, Evernote and OneNote.
Once you’ve chosen your tool you can go back to the list of articles, then tap and hold to save an article to the saving tool of your choice!

Pro tip: you can connect feedly to services like IFTTT and Zapier to better automate your workflow. Automatically send saved stories in feedly to a Google spreadsheet or to Dropbox using IFTTT.

07. Tagging stories in feedly mobile

Pro tip: like with saving, you can use IFTTT and Zapier to automate your workflow with tagging stories. IFTTT gives you a recipe that tweets stories when you tag them in feedly.

08. Change the way stories appear in feedly

Title only – this presents the articles in a long list, so that you can easily see if you have any unread articles. We suggest this view for users that need to read every article in their Collection
List view – Stories in list view are presented with just the title and a photo on the side, making it very scannable.
Magazine view– This is feedly’s default view. Stories are presented with a title and photo, and the first few lines of the story. This is also very easy to scan.
Card view – The main visual is shown on the entire screen, making is good for visual collections, like food and design.

09. Open stories directly in your web browser

10. Auto Mark as read

Now that you know how to use feedly on desktop and mobile, learn more about finding content to add to your feedly.

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.

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