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

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

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01. Search within your feedly

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

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

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

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

02. Search beyond your feedly

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

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

03. Search within your Saved For Later

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

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

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

04. Powerful filters to narrow your search results

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

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

05. Refine your search results with search operators

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

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

06. Example: Find product reviews

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

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

07. Example: Learn a new skill

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

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

08. Example: Research a topic

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

Use Google tracking tools with your feedly

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

01. Follow a topic through a Google News feed

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

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

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

02. Stay up-to-date with Google Alerts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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.

Introducing new feedly tutorials

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

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

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

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

Community Feedback

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

Introducing new feedly tutorials

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

Community Feedback

Five ways you can use IFTTT and feedly

What is IFTTT?

IFTTT, “If this, then that,” is a tool that allows you to create commands, or “recipes” that connect all of the different web services you use together. IFTTT automates the power of the web by relying on “if” recipes and “do” recipes. One classic IFTTT recipe states, “If I post a picture on Instagram, then save the photo to Dropbox.” There are more than 200 web services (or “channels”) that IFTTT supports – from feedly to Google Drive, WordPress, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, and countless more. With feedly Pro, you get access to IFTTT (and more) so you can automate the sharing, saving, and publishing process to the rest of the web.

00. Connect your feedly to IFTTT

With feedly Pro, you can get seamless integration with IFTTT to automate the sharing and saving process with feedly. IFTTT has more than 2,000 recipes that connect feedly with services like Google Drive, WordPress, and YouTube. Connect your feedly to get full access to everything IFTTT offers with feedly.

Go to IFTTT.com and login to your account, or create an account. It’ll be easier if you set up your IFTTT with the same email that you used to create you feedly. That way you’ll already be logged in.
Get to the feedly channel in IFTTT by clicking on Channels in the top navigation and searching for feedly. Click to connect your feedly
Once you login to your feedly account can start making and using recipes on IFTTT!

We’ve compiled five popular recipes that showcase the best uses of IFTTT and feedly.

01. Automatically send saved stories to a Google Spreadsheet

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One of the most popular feedly recipes in IFTTT is “Send stories marked Saved For Later in feedly to a Google Spreadsheet.” This provides an easy way for you to keep track of the stories that you save in feedly. You can share the spreadsheet with colleagues, or simply have an archive of everything you save in feedly. Find the recipe here or follow these simple steps to create your own in IFTTT.

Click on My Recipes in the top navigation and click on Create a Recipe.
For “this”, choose feedly and select the trigger “New articles saved for later.”
For “that”, choose Google Drive and select the action “Add row to spreadsheet.” You may need to connect your Google account.
Creating this recipe will create a new spreadsheet in Google Drive. Change the name of the spreadsheet and specify which Google Drive folder to place it in. Each time you save a story, a new row will be created in that spreadsheet.
Review the recipe you’ve created, and when you’re ready click Create Recipe.

02. Tweet stories with a specific tag in feedly

Tagging stories is useful if you want to come back to a certain set of stories later, but with IFTTT you can also use tags to automate your sharing. You can find the recipe here or create your own IFTTT recipe.

For “this”, choose feedly and select the trigger “New article tagged.” Select one of your feedly tags and create the trigger.
For “that”, choose Twitter and select the action “Post a tweet.”
Your tweet will show just the story’s title and URL. Add comments or a hashtag in the tweet text to create uniformity in your tweets. For example, you can add #feedly so that your followers know where you first read the story.

03. Get an email every time there’s a new story in one of your feedly categories

Some users need to keep an eye on everything that is happening in some of their categories. If that’s the case for you, with IFTTT you can get notified every time there is a new story in one of your categories. Here’s how to set up this recipe:

For “this”, choose feedly and select the trigger “New article from category.” Select the category that you would like to get notifications from. To get notified when there’s a new article in different categories, create a separate recipe for each one.
For “that”, choose the channel “Email,” shown by a white envelope over a blue backdrop. This tells IFTTT to send you an email. You can change how you want the subject and body of the email to appear in your inbox.

Pro tip: You can also set up this kind of recipe to get new stories sent to you by text message.

04. Get trending New York Times articles sent to your feedly

feedly is a great tool to use not just to follow topics for your job, but also to stay on top of the news. Adding only the popular New York Times articles to your feedly will keep you up-to-date on the important things without cluttering your feed.

For “this”, choose The New York Times and select the trigger “New popular article in section.” Choose the section that interests you most, or if you want to see all trending articles select “Any Section.”
For “that”, choose feedly and select either “Add new source” or “Save for later” as the action. Selecting “Add new source” will put the story in Uncategorized.

05. Get videos marked “Watch Later” added to your feedly

feedly is not only good for reading, but also for watching videos from YouTube. You can use IFTTT to get YouTube videos you’ve marked “Watch Later” added to your Saved For Later in feedly.

For “this”, choose YouTube, with the trigger “New watch later video.”
For “that”, choose feedly, with the action “Save for later.” Now, you can keep and watch videos that you mark as Watch Later in both your YouTube and your feedly.

Pro tip: You can also import your YouTube subscriptions to feedly to make sure you don’t miss any uploads from your favorite channels.

Explore even more IFTTT recipes

Those are just a few of the many ways to boost and automate your use of feedly with IFTTT. There are over 2,000 feedly-based recipes on IFTTT, making it a powerful resource for users all over. Here are our favorite recipes:

Grow your knowledge by adding a random Wikipedia article to your feedly every day
Always on the go? Save feedly articles to Pocket to read later
Spice things up by adding new Tumblr likes to your feedly

6 ways to get the right content on your feedly

We are busy people, that much is a given. We don’t have time to be checking for news on many different websites – feedly is the most efficient news reader for finding, reading and using the content that’s important to you.

feedly is an easy, organized way of reading more stories within your interests to supercharge your knowledge and productivity and get better at your job. Find content that you normally read across the web and organize it in your feedly space. You can create a Collection within your feedly to get the most about topics that interest your or learn a new skill – the opportunities are limitless!

Your feedly is what you make of it, so personalize it as best you can with the best content and fill your knowledge with the ideas you need to keep ahead. Use these six ways to tailor feedly with the sources, blogs and alerts that matter to you, then scroll down to the bottom to get a sense of what some completed feedlys look like.

01 Search for a site you already know

feedly is the tool to organize the news that is important to you. Whether you get your daily news from a big publisher like The New York Times or you want to follow a niche blog – you can find and follow all the publications you want in feedly.

On feedly’s Add Content page, search for a publication or blog you read regularly and want to follow in feedly. For instance, search “The Atlantic.”
Once you’ve found the site you’re looking for click the green plus button . You can choose which of your Collections to add the site to or create a new Collection.
Now you can find even more blogs and publications to add to your feedly!

02 Explore a topic

The web is filled with knowledge on any topic imaginable, and feedly is connected to millions of sources of content on the web. feedly lets you find these “gems” and follow them so that you’re always in the know – whether you’re passionate about web design, informatics, or you’re looking to become a better marketer or teacher.

Go to feedly.com and click Add Content.
Search for a topic or site, for instance “marketing.” This will take you to a page that showcases the best marketing blogs on feedly.
1. Tip: sometimes searching with a # gives you better results. Try it out!
If you’re looking for some quick suggestions on what to follow in our most popular topics, check our our Starter Kits. You can browse by topic to find rich content to follow. You can find the Starter Kits on the Add Content page.
When you find a blog that you want in your feed you can click the green plus button and you will see steps to sign up with feedly through your Google or Facebook.
Once you’ve created an account, you can add unlimited content to your feedly.

03 See what thought leaders read with Curated Collections

Wouldn’t it be incredible if you could see the sources a best-selling author like Seth Godin what follows when it comes to Marketing? Or find out where superstar blogger and author Joy Wilson finds inspiration for Dessert and Baking? These industry experts have made their Collections public on feedly so that you, too, can learn to become an expert. Find out what they’re reading in feedly:

If you scroll down on the Add Content page you’ll see some of the Curated Collections in feedly. These are curated by authors of popular blogs, whom we trust to gather the best information about the topic of their expertise.
In each Curated Collection, you’ll see a description and a sampling of some of the publications and blogs in that Collection. If you already have a favorite author, you’ll want to check this out.
Start browsing the publications and blogs in the Curated Collections until you find one you like. You can add one to your feedly by clicking the or .
Preview what that Collection would look like in your feedly. Like what you see? Add it! adds the entire Collection to your reading list.

04 Adding sites from a URL

If you tried searching for the name of a specific publication or blog and that didn’t work, adding via URL might work well. This may give you more specific results and will make searching easier.

Search for the URL in feedly’s search bar. For exact matches, select http://www.time.com sites.
If that doesn’t work, you will have to find the site’s feed URL. To do this, go to their homepage and look for the . This will take you to a separate page to add the publication or blog to a different RSS Feeds system. To add it to your feedly, copy and paste the URL into your feedly search bar.
Another way to add a specific site is by copy and pasting the publication or blog’s feed URL (found in step 2) right after http://feedly.com/i/subscription/feed/. For instance, this is what the URL would look like when searching for TIME magazine: http://feedly.com/i/subscription/feed/http://www.time.com/feed/.
However, if you have feedly mini, you don’t have to go through the hassle of finding the site’s feed URL. To add a publication or blog to your feedly using feedly mini, all you have to do is go to the site’s homepage and click the in the bottom right hand corner, then click the , which will take you back to the feedly website. Learn how to activate feedly Mini.

05 Adding YouTube channels to your feedly

Watching videos can be just as useful as reading articles, and we want you to be able to make the most of your feedly by including YouTube channels. feedly is useful for keeping an eye on the latest uploads from your favorite YouTube channels.

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

The first way is to copy and paste the YouTube channel’s URL directly in your feedly search bar. You can add YouTube channels one-by-one into different Collections.
If you already subscribe to a number of channels on YouTube, you can import them all in your feedly using an OPML export. Export your OPML file from YouTube from the subscriptions page. For the import to feedly, see our final tip below.

06 Import existing subscriptions using OPML

You can use an OPML file to import content from other places that you subscribe to information.

Go to the site that you want go grab your subscription from and export the OPML file. For instance, to add videos you watch on YouTube go to https://www.youtube.com/subscription_manager and click Export.
Now, open feedly.com and click on Organize at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu.
Click on at the top of the page, then find the .xml document you downloaded from YouTube. When you’re ready, click .

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

01. Search within your feedly

02. Search beyond your feedly

03. Search within your Saved For Later

04. Powerful filters to narrow your search results

05. Refine your search results with search operators

06. Example: Find product reviews

07. Example: Learn a new skill

08. Example: Research a topic

01. Follow a topic through a Google News feed

02. Stay up-to-date with Google Alerts

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

01. Adding content on feedly mobile

02. Home: a digest from all your Collections

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

04. Gestures: simple shortcuts in mobile

05. Removing feeds on mobile

06. Personalize the saving feature

07. Tagging stories in feedly mobile

08. Change the way stories appear in feedly

09. Open stories directly in your web browser

10. Auto Mark as read

01. Adding content on feedly mobile

02. Home: a digest from all your Collections

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

04. Gestures: simple shortcuts in mobile

05. Removing feeds on mobile

06. Personalize the saving feature

07. Tagging stories in feedly mobile

08. Change the way stories appear in feedly

09. Open stories directly in your web browser

10. Auto Mark as read

01. Promoting feeds to Must Read on desktop

02. Promoting to Must Read on mobile

03. Accessing all your Must Reads

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

01. Promoting feeds to Must Read on desktop

02. Promoting to Must Read on mobile

03. Accessing all your Must Reads

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

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What is IFTTT?

00. Connect your feedly to IFTTT

01. Automatically send saved stories to a Google Spreadsheet

02. Tweet stories with a specific tag in feedly

03. Get an email every time there’s a new story in one of your feedly categories

04. Get trending New York Times articles sent to your feedly

05. Get videos marked “Watch Later” added to your feedly

Explore even more IFTTT recipes

01 Search for a site you already know

02 Explore a topic

03 See what thought leaders read with Curated Collections

04 Adding sites from a URL

05 Adding YouTube channels to your feedly

06 Import existing subscriptions using OPML

Examples of completed feedlys