Friday, June 20, 2014

Feedly and How to Save Favorite Blog Posts


I'm a blog addict and have over 350 feeds in my Feedly in various categories from education to technology to iOS to cooking to digital scrapbooking. I've been using Feedly since last summer when my beloved Google Reader shut down.  I don't love it but I tried practically every alternative (literally!) and it was the best option for me.     

My biggest complaint is the "mark as unread" link.  If you want to mark an item as "unread" to come back to later, you have to scroll all the way back to the top of the article.  How hard would it be to add the same "mark as unread" code to the bottom of each post???  It's a small thing but it drives me crazy.

Also, I hate the app so I use the paid app Reeder instead. It's a much simpler interface and worth the money to me considering the amount of blogs I read.

The big question is what do you do with blog posts that you like?  How do you mark them so that you can find them later?  I'm not a fan of browser bookmarks because they're so hard to search through.  Here's what I do with blog posts I want to remember later:

•  Pinterest - I'm a Pinterest addict as well as a blog addict so it's great that Feedly has a built in Pin It feature.  Hover over a picture in a feed and you'll see the "Pin It" button appear.   Tip:  Occasionally a Pin It button won't appear because the picture is smaller than the minimum requirements for Pinterest.  If you want to pin that post, you'll have to click the post title to open the actual blog site and pin it from there.


 Pocket to Evernote -  I also love to use Evernote to save things for later because it's so easy to search for exactly what you want. The Save to Evernote feature is a "Pro" feature in Feedly meaning that you have to pay for it.  Since I'm a super geek, I work around that by using a combination of Pocket and IFTTT (If This Then That).  If you're a super geek like me, here's how: 

    1. Create Evernote.comGetPocket.com and IFTTT.com accounts. 
    2. In IFTTT, go to the Channels section and activate your Pocket and Evernote accounts. 
    3. Create a recipe in IFTTT to send anything you add to Pocket to your Evernote. There's a bunch of already created recipes that you can use if you search "Pocket to Evernote" when you click the Browse button. Here's what my "recipe" looks like:


Once you've got that set, anytime you click the "Add to Pocket" icon in Feedly, a new note will automatically be created in your Evernote.  IFTTT can be a little complicated at first but once you get the hang of it, you can use it to automate many online functions. 


How do you save posts you want to access later?









2 comments:

Mrs. Butts said...

Amy, WOW 350 blogs. Up to now I would just favorite a blog I found so I can see from this point forward feedly will really help me to organize. However I was wondering if this there was a way to save a favorite post. But the IFTTT and Pocket idea went right over my head so I will try the pinterest.

Unknown said...

Thanks for your post about feedly and Reeder. I just heard the same thing from another teacher friend about the Reeder app, so I'm interested to try it now!