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Seven ways to share stories from feedly

feedly has gone beyond just a place to find and organize the content you read. With feedly, you can easily share stories to your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and hundreds of other services using IFTTT. Sharing stories shows others what you’re reading and helps keep your friends and teammates up-to-date on content you think is important.

Pro tip: All of your sharing options will appear in the article toolbar or in the overflow menu at the top of each article. To customize which sharing 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.

01. Interact with your friends by sharing to your social networks

Sharing to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter helps you better interact with your following and establish your presence on these networks. You an share stories that you read in feedly to your favorite social networks without having to even open a new page. Simply click on the Facebook or Twitter icon in the article toolbar, or find them under the three vertical dots. A pop-up will show your post, all you have to do is click Share.

02. Grow your professional network by easily posting to LinkedIn from feedly

Sharing stories to LinkedIn is a proven way to improve your visibility on the number one professional social network and the third-fastest-growing social network. Sharing through LinkedIn has proven to be more effective than sharing through any other social network. Feedly has provided a way of easily sharing stories to LinkedIn with just a few clicks.

To share to LinkedIn, click the three vertical dots at the top right corner of the article then click on LinkedIn in the drop-down menu. A pop-up will show up with a post that’s ready to go. Feel free to add a caption or change the preview image, then share it with all of your LinkedIn connections.

03. Send relevant stories you read through Gmail

If you want to share a story that you read in feedly with one of your friends or teammates directly you can do so by sending it to them in an email. Sending a story through an email in feedly is easy because all of the important parts of the story will already be in the body of the email, all you have to do is type a recipient’s name and click Send.

04. Share with Buffer and Hootsuite to schedule posts for a certain time of day

It can be useful to schedule certain posts to publish at on a particular day or at a certain time of day when there is more traffic to your social network. When you share links to stories you read in feedly, you want to make sure you’re sharing at the right time. With feedly Pro, you can use Buffer and Hootsuite, social media scheduling tools, to schedule your posts. Both icons appear under the three vertical dots in the article toolbar.

05. Set up IFTTT to automatically share stories that you’ve saved or tagged

Another useful feature of feedly Pro is integrating with IFTTT, a tool that connects the different web services you use and automates their processes. Some of the social networks you use may not be integrated with feedly yet. You can share stories to these social networks easily with IFTTT. If you add a specific tag to a story you want to share, IFTTT will see that as a trigger to share it on your social network – it’s completely automated. We have a separate tutorial on IFTTT if you want to learn more.

06. Use IFTTT to connect stories with other medium

You can use IFTTT to not only post to your social networks, but to post to other medium, such as Trello, WordPress, Salesforce Chatter, and tumblr.

If you are an avid blogger, and love reposting the content you find on feedly, you can do so automatically through IFTTT by posting automatically to Blogger, Tumblr, and WordPress.

Some of the content you read in feedly is great for business, and sharing stories with your teammates can help inspire your company. You can use IFTTT to share to Salesforce Chatter and Slack when you tag a story as such so that everything happens in the background.

Sending stories to other medium simply for your own productivity and use is also possible through IFTTT. You can send stories to Trello, Yammer, and Google Drive to track your progress or list of to-dos.

07. Integrate services you use with our Custom Sharing tool

feedly has has many sharing tools that we’ve integrated in the article toolbar. However, there are many more that are not yet integrated. We’ve created a Custom Sharing tool, which allows you to share articles directly through networks such as WordPress, bitly and Gmail. Here’s how you can set up Custom Sharing:

Click on Preferences at the bottom of the left hand navigation menu and scroll down until you see Custom Sharing, a feature of feedly Pro.
You should see a table that shows all of the sharing tools that feedly supports, as well as Custom Sharing (this will be at the top of the list)
1. Pro tip: This is where you can select which sharing services appear in the article toolbar. You can select up to nine of the tools you use most often.
Right above this table is a place to enter a Custom Sharing url. Below is a list of sharing URLs that work. This is the URL that you would use to share to a custom recipient in Gmail: http://mail.google.com/mail/to=EMAIL@MAIL.COM&fs=1&tf=1&view=cm&su=${title}&body=${url}
Replace “email@mail.com” with your recipient’s email.

Once you’ve set up Custom Sharing, all you have to do to share a story is click the Custom Sharing icon, a paper airplane, in the article toolbar. A pop-up window will show the post before it sends. Once you’ve reviewed it you can hit send and keep reading.

Sharing with the Custom Sharing tool is useful because it gives you the ease of sending an already-formatted post with just a few clicks – all you have to do is change the Custom Sharing URL. You can only use one Custom Sharing tool at a time. Here are some popular ones:

Send to Pinboard:
http://pinboard.in/add?url=${url}&title=${title}

Save as PDF:
http://savepageaspdf.pdfonline.com/pdfonline/pdfonline.asp?cURL=${url}

Send to Ping.fm:
http://ping.fm/ref/?link=${url}&title=${title}

Send to Remember The Milk:
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/ext/addtask.rtm?t=${title}-${url}

Send to bit.ly:
http://bit.ly/?v=3&u=${url}&s=${title}

Send to Gmail from full composition:
http://mail.google.com/mail/?fs=1&tf=1&view=cm&su=${title}&body=${url}

Send to Gmail with custom recipient:
http://mail.google.com/mail/?to=EMAIL@MAIL.COM&fs=1&tf=1&view=cm&su=${title}&body=${url}

Send to Google Calendar:
http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&text=${title}&details=${url}

Send to Google Translate:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=${url}

Create a Google Bookmark:
http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=${url}&title=${title}

Send to WordPress:
http://www.WORDPRESSDOMAIN.com/wp-admin/press-this.php?u=${url}&t=${title}&s=${source}&v=2

Send to Tumblr:
http://www.tumblr.com/share?v=3&u=${url}&t=${title}

Send to Diigo:
http://www.diigo.com/item/new/bookmark?url=${url}&title=${title}

Send to Springpad:
http://springpadit.com/s?type=Bookmark&url=${url}&name=${title}

Send to Delicious:
https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/add?description={title}&tags=News&url={url}

Send to Wallabag:
https://www.framabag.org/u/USERNAME/?action=add&plainurl=${url}

Send to Known:
http:/{known-url}/werd.io/share?share_url={url}&share_title={title}

Questions? We want to hear your feedback. Email us at tutorials@feedly.com.

Seven ways to share stories from feedly

01. Interact with your friends by sharing to your social networks

02. Grow your professional network by easily posting to LinkedIn from feedly

03. Send relevant stories you read through Gmail

04. Share with Buffer and Hootsuite to schedule posts for a certain time of day

05. Set up IFTTT to automatically share stories that you’ve saved or tagged

06. Use IFTTT to connect stories with other medium

You can use IFTTT to not only post to your social networks, but to post to other medium, such as Trello, WordPress, Salesforce Chatter, and tumblr.

If you are an avid blogger, and love reposting the content you find on feedly, you can do so automatically through IFTTT by posting automatically to Blogger, Tumblr, and WordPress.

07. Integrate services you use with our Custom Sharing tool

Click on Preferences at the bottom of the left hand navigation menu and scroll down until you see Custom Sharing, a feature of feedly Pro.
You should see a table that shows all of the sharing tools that feedly supports, as well as Custom Sharing (this will be at the top of the list)
1. Pro tip: This is where you can select which sharing services appear in the article toolbar. You can select up to nine of the tools you use most often.
Right above this table is a place to enter a Custom Sharing url. Below is a list of sharing URLs that work. This is the URL that you would use to share to a custom recipient in Gmail: http://mail.google.com/mail/to=EMAIL@MAIL.COM&fs=1&tf=1&view=cm&su=${title}&body=${url}
Replace “email@mail.com” with your recipient’s email.

Send to Pinboard:
http://pinboard.in/add?url=${url}&title=${title}

Save as PDF:
http://savepageaspdf.pdfonline.com/pdfonline/pdfonline.asp?cURL=${url}

Send to Ping.fm:
http://ping.fm/ref/?link=${url}&title=${title}

Send to Remember The Milk:
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/ext/addtask.rtm?t=${title}-${url}

Send to bit.ly:
http://bit.ly/?v=3&u=${url}&s=${title}

Send to Gmail from full composition:
http://mail.google.com/mail/?fs=1&tf=1&view=cm&su=${title}&body=${url}

Send to Gmail with custom recipient:
http://mail.google.com/mail/?to=EMAIL@MAIL.COM&fs=1&tf=1&view=cm&su=${title}&body=${url}

Send to Google Calendar:
http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&text=${title}&details=${url}

Send to Google Translate:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=${url}

Create a Google Bookmark:
http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=${url}&title=${title}

Send to WordPress:
http://www.WORDPRESSDOMAIN.com/wp-admin/press-this.php?u=${url}&t=${title}&s=${source}&v=2

Send to Tumblr:
http://www.tumblr.com/share?v=3&u=${url}&t=${title}

Send to Diigo:
http://www.diigo.com/item/new/bookmark?url=${url}&title=${title}

Send to Springpad:
http://springpadit.com/s?type=Bookmark&url=${url}&name=${title}

Send to Delicious:
https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/add?description={title}&tags=News&url={url}

Send to Wallabag:
https://www.framabag.org/u/USERNAME/?action=add&plainurl=${url}

Send to Known:
http:/{known-url}/werd.io/share?share_url={url}&share_title={title}

Questions? We want to hear your feedback. Email us at tutorials@feedly.com.

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.

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

FRANCESCO SOMAINI, PhD

Assistant Professor, Central Washington University | @SomainiF