Comments on: I’m giving Google Reader a try

By: William Tully

William Tully — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:16:24 +0000

Up until last week aswell, I was a die-hard desktop client RSS reader… Then I did the deal with the devil and am loving Google Reader.

The desktop ones work ‘well’ but there is always something extremely annoying about each one which was driving me crazy. Snarfer was great, however, I think I’m sold on the Google Reader for now.

(I’m also finding that I can keep my feeds from getting away on me easier with Google than with the desktop one.. not sure why, but I’m keeping my eye on it…)

By: Dossy

Dossy — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:05:39 +0000

Jeff: I did think about the “add new tag, remove old tag” to “rename” tags, thanks.

Another annoyance: I’d like to “hide” a few feeds (or a whole folder) from the “All items” view (which I’m using to read all new items). I guess I’ll figure out a way to organize my feeds such that I can accomplish this, but in my first 24 hours of using Google Reader, this is somewhat annoying.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:24:52 +0000

I did the switch about 3 months ago, for much the same reason. I’m very much pleased with the result.

Seems like you should be able to add a tag, then remove the old one to do the renaming… but I haven’t tried it.

By: Dossy

Dossy — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:12:27 +0000

Indeed, a desktop reader client that could sync to Google Reader (or Bloglines) would be fantastic.

I’ve previously implemented an IMAP interface in front of the Bloglines Sync API, but never completed it. Maybe I’ll take a stab at updating it to ponit at Google Reader …

By: dydimustk

dydimustk — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:54:25 +0000

I would like to use google reader because it is so easy… but I use NetNewsWire, which syncs up with newsgator. So I use that when I’m online reading. But if I could get google reader to sync up with NNW, I would.