Comments on: Google Reader Ninja Secrets

By: Dommark

Dommark — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:50:18 +0000

This is really cool. Thanks for sharing this.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:12:57 +0000

Interesting question. I don’t typically star more than 2 or 3 per day. And if I’m starring it to read later, I’ll try to come back within the week, so it will still be at the top. Then it’s just a matter of skimming the “Starred Items” list, which is just below “Home.” Surely, you know of that one button approach? (Don’t call me Shirley!).

If it’s been more than a week or so, and I want to find a specific post, I usually rely on the awesomeness of Google search box and whatever keywords stuck in my mind that made me want to go back and find the article.

Something I LOVE about starring items, is that even if I delete a feed, those starred items stay (and are searchable.)

Thanks for the tagging tip. I haven’t played around with them much, but I’ll give it a go!

By: Gord

Gord — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:56:27 +0000

I often want to see all of the items I have “starred” from a specific feed. I always go looking for a simple button to do this and can’t believe it is not there (is it, Joel?). You can view All Items or New Items for a feed, but not starred items?

The only solution I see is the search: Put the feed name in the search box and change the search filter to “Starred Items”. Not too bad…yet I still go looking for a button all the time.

Secondly, tags. At the bottom of each item you can assign Tags. Great for pulling together similar articles from different feeds and folders. Any tag you create will show up in your folder list. I use these for both “serious” research organization and as a simple follow-up tool (instead of ’starring’ posts with interesting videos I have been tagging them with my Videos tag so I can go back to all the cool videos quickly).