Newsletters are proving to be a useful tool for team collaboration.
Our teams use them internally, and we will keep building with your feedback in mind.
Thank you to all the teams who have sent questions, feedback, and bug reports!
FAQs
Why didn’t I receive my newsletter? Common problems & solutions:
No new articles saved since the last newsletter sent. It will only send if there are new articles available (ie. saved) in the board.
Solution: For now, we suggest removing and then re-saving some articles to the board. After that, return to the newsletter dashboard and hit “send now” once again.
It works the same way the very first time you activate a newsletter and for your future scheduled newsletters.
Maybe the newsletter is in spam.
Solution: Please check your spam folder and add <teams@feedly.com> to your address book. That will tell your email provider to deliver newsletters to your inbox.
What articles will (or won’t) be included in the newsletter when I hit Send Now?
On-demand newsletters only include new articles saved since the last newsletter sent. This is the most common reason why a newsletter doesn’t send.
To send an on-demand newsletter with specific articles, we suggest removing and then re-saving those articles to the board. After that, return to the newsletter dashboard and hit “send now” once again.
What about analytics?
Coming soon
How do I add newsletters to my Feedly account?
We suggest starting a 30-day free trial of Feedly Teams. The trial gives you full access to newsletters and our support team. We are here to help you and your team get the most out of Feedly.
Thank you for trying newsletters! Have a question not answered here? Ask us in the comments or in the app.
Google News is a real-time database of 50,000 global news sources. When you create a feed, you can save a keyword search to track the latest news articles.
Organizing Google News feeds within your feedly is a powerful method to monitor keywords and topics on the web. Using these feeds, you can track product or brand mentions, names, phrases, keywords, hashtags, or whatever you follow on the web.
Google News feeds become even more powerful when they are integrated with the rest of your daily content in one place.
Create a Google News feed
If you have a feedly Pro or feedly Team account, you can use the premium Power Search function to create a Google News feed within feedly.
Creating a Google News feed desktop
To do this, go to the search bar in the upper right hand corner of your feedly. Type in your search term or topic.
Scroll down to “search under Google News” under the search category.
Once you have your Google News feed, you can save it to a feedly Collection so that all of your reading is in one place.
Saving a Google News feed desktop
Save this search to your feedly by clicking the “+feedly” button.
You can either create a new Collection for the feed (shown above) or add it to an existing one.
Create a Google News feed on mobile
You can create a Google News feed just as easily from your iOS or Android device.
Mobile saving a google feed
To do this, open your feedly app. Go to your search bar. Type in your search term. Tap on the search bar. Then tap “stories in Google News.”
Your Google news feed will appear.
To save the feed to your feedly tap the “+” icon on the upper right. Select an existing Collection(s) or create a new one.
Make your search specific
You can use search operators to make your search more specific. Here are some of the operators you can use:
“” – To search for a phrase, you can use quotation markets (ex. “Search term”).
AND + – You can use AND or + to ensure two words appear in an article, but don’t necessarily have to be next to each other (ex. Tesla AND earnings).
– – You can use a minus sign (-) to exclude words within a search. So if you are looking for the latest developments in swift key but are disinterested in Taylor Swift articles, you can include “-Taylor” in your search and any article with the word taylor will not be in the feed.
OR – You can also use OR to run a single search for more than one phrase or word (ex. tesla OR “electric car”).To do this, open your feedly app. Go to your search bar. Type in your search term. Tap on the search bar. Then tap “stories in Google News.”
~ – You can use this ~ symbol in front of a word to search for synonyms.
Site: – You can use site: in front of a URL to search within one site domain. So if you are looking for more Forbes articles about Tesla, you could do “site:forbes.com Tesla”
Intitle: – You can use intitle: in front of a search term to only search within headlines.
Allintext: – You can this allintext: in front of a word to search only within the text of a page.
Allinurl: – Will search for articles with search terms solely in the URL.
Google News is a real-time database of 50,000 global news sources. When you create a feed, you can save a keyword search to track the latest news articles.
Organizing Google News feeds within your feedly is a powerful method to monitor keywords and topics on the web. Using these feeds, you can track product or brand mentions, names, phrases, keywords, hashtags, or whatever you follow on the web.
Google News feeds become even more powerful when they are integrated with the rest of your daily content in one place.
Create a Google News feed
If you have a feedly Pro or feedly Team account, you can use the premium Power Search function to create a Google News feed within feedly.
Creating a Google News feed desktop
To do this, go to the search bar in the upper right hand corner of your feedly. Type in your search term or topic.
Scroll down to “search under Google News” under the search category.
Once you have your Google News feed, you can save it to a feedly Collection so that all of your reading is in one place.
Saving a Google News feed desktop
Save this search to your feedly by clicking the “+feedly” button.
You can either create a new Collection for the feed (shown above) or add it to an existing one.
Create a Google News feed on mobile
You can create a Google News feed just as easily from your iOS or Android device.
Mobile saving a google feed
To do this, open your feedly app. Go to your search bar. Type in your search term. Tap on the search bar. Then tap “stories in Google News.”
Your Google news feed will appear.
To save the feed to your feedly tap the “+” icon on the upper right. Select an existing Collection(s) or create a new one.
Make your search specific
You can use search operators to make your search more specific. Here are some of the operators you can use:
“” – To search for a phrase, you can use quotation markets (ex. “Search term”).
AND + – You can use AND or + to ensure two words appear in an article, but don’t necessarily have to be next to each other (ex. Tesla AND earnings).
– – You can use a minus sign (-) to exclude words within a search. So if you are looking for the latest developments in swift key but are disinterested in Taylor Swift articles, you can include “-Taylor” in your search and any article with the word taylor will not be in the feed.
OR – You can also use OR to run a single search for more than one phrase or word (ex. tesla OR “electric car”).To do this, open your feedly app. Go to your search bar. Type in your search term. Tap on the search bar. Then tap “stories in Google News.”
~ – You can use this ~ symbol in front of a word to search for synonyms.
Site: – You can use site: in front of a URL to search within one site domain. So if you are looking for more Forbes articles about Tesla, you could do “site:forbes.com Tesla”
Intitle: – You can use intitle: in front of a search term to only search within headlines.
Allintext: – You can this allintext: in front of a word to search only within the text of a page.
Allinurl: – Will search for articles with search terms solely in the URL.
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 editicon 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
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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.
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 editicon 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
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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.
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)
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:
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)
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:
feedly is not only about getting great content that matters to you, but also about using content to improve collaboration with your teammates or your audience. With Shared Collections, you can show others what you read in feedly.
There are so many ways to use Shared Collections. Sharing collections with your teammates allows you to stay aligned on the same news and information. Sharing a collection with your clients will build your brand by showing them the type of content you use to feed your mind. Sharing collections with your community and following will provides a platform for you to present your intellectual self and great sources for others to read in feedly. Sharing is caring, and we want to make it easier to share what you read in feedly
To maximize your use of Shared Collections, upgrade to feedly Pro or feedly Team. Anyone can view a Shared Collection, but only users that have upgraded can create one. Here are 10 tips for creating and sharing your Shared Collections.
01. Pick your personalized URL
With the Shared Collections feature in feedly Pro, you can personalize your feedly even more. It is not only an opportunity to show what you read, but to express who you are or what your organization is, using a Shared Collection page just for you.
Adding a profile photo, biography, and link to your personal website are a few ways to customoize the page for you or your brand. Here’s how you can brand your very own Shared Collections page:
Choose your name and personal URL. Choosing the right alias is important when it comes to sharing collections.You want to choose something that people will remember so it is easy for readers to find your feedly profile. We suggest something that matches your Twitter or LinkedIn aliases. Note: You can only change your alias once so make sure you like the one you’ve selected!
Add a profile image. Choose your favorite close-up, so that people who explore your collections can recognize you or your brand.
Add a short biography to give people a sense of who you are. This is one short line to describe you, your page, or your company in a few words. You can add in your work experience and explain your passions as well, however, there is a 45 character limit so keep it short.
Add links. Providing links to your website (company or personal), Twitter page, and LinkedIn profile help readers learn more about you and drive traffic to your web presences.
02. Choose the collections you want to share
All of your collections default to private, so that you are in control of what people see and cannot see. You can switch just the collections you choose to public so that you don’t have to worry about everyone seeing everything in your feedly. Doing this allows you to create some collections specifically for sharing and others for your own personal growth.
Pro tip: You can add sites to multiple collections to be presented in different Shared Collections.
To turn Shared Collections on and off, you can edit the Collections Privacy. You can find this as a link on the right side of your feedly profile. Unlocked Collections are public and shareable with the open web, whether you are sending it to your teammates, company, friends, or family. Click the lock to change your privacy settings from private to public, or vice versa. You can always come back and change these later.
Pro tip:You don’t need a feedly account to view a Shared Collection – in fact, this is a great starting point to add content and get started with feedly.
03. Make a Shared Collection for your company, agency, or team
Shared Collections are useful not only for individuals, but also for companies who want a platform to market themselves or serve their clients with useful resources. For companies with content marketing, it makes it simple for clients, friends, and followers to find all of the content in one place.
Some individuals—especially for small companies or specific teams—find it effective to use their personal profile to build their companies’ Shared Collections. However, you can also create a separate feedly account to create Shared Collections that represent your brand (like MIT and ThoughtWorks). You can fill it with your company’s own content or draw on other resources that you’ve hand-picked.
04. Share your collections with your teammates
The best way for your friends to find your collections in feedly is for you to share it with them directly. To do this, click the sharing icon at the top of the collection. You will get a public link that you can send directly to your friends.
Another way to share your Shared Collections is to direct friends to your feedly profile by giving them your alias. This will allow them to see not just one Shared Collection, but all of your Shared Collections within your profile page. Your personal URL will be www.feedly.com/alias (the alias is the name you chose during set up). If you’re not sure what your URL is, you can always find it by going to your feedly tray on the left, and clicking on “Shared Collections” at the upper left.
05. Share your collections with your following on social networks
feedly provides four sharing features to share your collections more easily. With two simple clicks, you can share to Google Plus, Twitter, Facebook, and Email. Sharing on social networks allows you to give people a sense of what you read and what your brand is.
06. Customize a cover image to match your company, team, or individual personality
The colors in your cover image reflect the colors that will appear on your feedly page. For instance, if your cover image has a lot of blues and greens, the background colors on your feedly profile will be blue and green. Take the time to choose a cover image that captures your personal brand or corporate identity and makes use of the large canvas. This could be your brand’s logo, or an image related to your brand. Because your cover image determines the colors of your feedly profile, you can use it to set the mood and entice readers into your Shared Collections.
For cover images, feedly accepts JPEGs and png files, however, gifs are not supported yet. We recommend you choose a photo that is around 1720 px x 500 px so that it’ll have good resolution on your page.
07. Create a collection description that demonstrates your domain expertise
After you’ve chosen the source of information for your Shared Collection, the collection description is a powerful way to frame the information you’ve curated. For each collection that you make public, you can create a description that captures what your collection is, why you are interested in the topic, your reasons for creating the collection, and why you like to read about it in your feedly.
The default description is “a collection of the best blogs I read in my feedly,” but you can personalize this wording to give more insight on your collection. Changing the description is simple: Just click on the edit button next to the current description and write in your own. You can expand the collection description box so there’s no limit to how long your collection description can be. We suggest keeping it relatively short so people don’t spend too much time reading through it.
08. Promote the best sources to list at the top of each collection
In each Shared Collection on your Shared Collections page, up to six sources will show up as cards, then readers can click on “more sites” to see the other sources. These are the first sites a reader will see when he or she looks at your collection. It is important to put the sites that matter the most to you at the top of these collections because it is the first taste a reader will get, and may determine whether they explores your collection further or keeps scrolling. To specify which sources are listed at the top simply promoting them to Must Read.
Pro Tip: We suggest 10-20 sites as a manageable number of sites to include in each collection.
09. Find someone else’s Shared Collections
The best way to find someone’s Shared Collection in feedly is to use their personal alias (personal URL), which will take you directly to their Shared Collections page. You can get their alias if they’ve sent it to you directly or if they’ve shared it on a social network.
However, it’s also useful to find professionals that you don’t know as well. To find some of the best Shared Collections, click on Add Content, then scroll until you see Curated Collections. Explore these and refresh the page to see more Shared Collections.
10. Use Shared Collections with your feedly Team account
If your company has a feedly Team account you can get Shared Collections to share only with your team. Your Shared Collections are private to your team and only users who use your team login will be able to see your Shared Collection.This is useful for collaborating on content with your teammates in a secure space. The list of your teammates’ Shared Collections will be listed at the top of your discovery page.
Your teammate’s Shared Collections are also accessible on mobile, from the explore panel. Click on the search icon or swipe left to see them.
11. Get ideas of what other professionals showcase in feedly
Even if you’re not interested in making your own Shared Collection, Shared Collections are a great way to get inspired and to see what the experts are reading. . We’ve hand picked a couple of outstanding Shared Collections in feedly to browse as a reader or to help guide you as you create your own. You can find more by clicking Add Content on feedly.com.
Shared Collections is a feature that makes your feedly more personal and interactive. As always, we want your feedback. Let us know what you think about this feature and what other things you wish to know about it.
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
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.
