RSS GROUND KNOWLEDGEBASE

Below is a text version of the above video guide with a more detailed explanation of Feeds Reader's features and options.

1. About Feeds Reader
2. Categories
3. Feeds
4. Articles (feed Items)
5. Personal feeds
6. Advanced settings (preview mode, export/import, automatic filters)

About Feeds Reader

Feeds Reader is a very effective and undervalued way to consume content feeds. You can organize content feeds into categories based on their topic, content type, content source, or any other parameter. You can sort and filter feed articles (items), use the search option, add notes and tags, mark your favorite articles and even combine them into your own personal feeds.

You can add feeds to your Feeds Reader either from Feeds Box or from any other RSS Ground content generator. You can also manually add feeds in Feeds Reader. If you manually add (subscribe) feeds in Feeds Reader they will still be automatically saved in your Feeds Box. All feeds added through Feeds Reader will be considered public feeds in your membership plan limits.

To start using Feeds Reader, you need to sign up for any of RSS Ground membership plans including Basic (free).

If you already have RSS Ground account, go to the ACCOUNT section and click on Feeds Reader. Or use the main navigation menu:

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Categories

Let's start with creating a category for your feeds. By default, you have an Uncategorized category with the official RSS Ground feed in it.

To create a new category go to the Settings menu and click on the Create category option.

Name your category and press OK. You can create as many categories as you need. They will be listed in the left sidebar.

You can expand a category to see all content feeds added to it. But before you can see your categories in the left sidebar you need to add at least one content feed to them.

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Feeds

The easiest way to add feeds is to click on the Settings icon in the top-right corner and then select Add feeds from Feeds Box. You will be redirected to your Feeds Box where you can select feeds and send them to your Reader, into any category.

Another way is to manually subscribe to a feed: Settings - Subscribe to feed option. If you wish to manually add a whole list of content feeds into the same category, use the Batch subscribe option.

Enter your content feed's URL and choose a category from the dropdown menu.

Note: when you subscribe for a new content feed it may take up to several minutes to parse its content and display it in your Feeds Reader.

To move your content feed to another category or completely remove it from your Feeds Reader, right-click on your feed in the left navigation bar. Then choose the Edit feed option. Or click on your feed and go to the Settings menu and choose the Edit this feed option.

You will be able to choose another category for your feed, rename it, copy or edit the feed's URL or unsubscribe and remove it from Feeds Reader completely.

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Articles (Feed Items)

By default, all articles (items) from your feeds are sorted chronologically, with the most recent at the top and show only titles. Click on the article's title to see the content.

You can add your custom tags or notes to each feed's article. This will allow you, if needed, to filter all articles that have notes or organize them by tags.

Also, you can "star" articles. Then you can find these articles in the "Starred articles" category in the left sidebar.

For a better user experience, you can use sorting, selection, and filtering options from the upper menu.

Use the Search by keyword option to find relevant articles. You can search all of your feeds, feeds from a particular category, or just a single feed. Learn more about Feeds Reader search syntax.

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Personal Feeds

You can add favorite content from Feeds Reader to your personal feeds. Right-click content title, in the Add to personal feed option select a needed feed:

Read more about Personal Feeds.

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Advanced Settings

Along with the basic settings and options described above, we also offer you some Advanced settings, which can be found by clicking on the Settings icon.

Feeds Preview

First of all, you can change the way you preview your feeds and articles into a split-screen mode (Gmail style). Go to Advanced setting > Preferences tab.

Make sure the Combined feed display is unchecked.

Now you can preview your articles with the list of all articles above the preview window.

For a vertical preview, go to Settings and click on Toggle widescreen mode.

Advanced feeds settings

In the Feeds tab, you can drag and drop feeds from one category to another. There are some other useful options like bulk feeds editing (reassign a group of feeds to another category), batch (bulk) subscribing or unsubscribing. Here you can also rename or remove your categories.

Export/Import feeds

If you keep your content feeds in a different reader and this reader supports OPML option you can easily move your feeds to our Feeds Reader.

Generate OPML file with all your feeds in your previous reader, and save it on your computer. Now go to Feeds Reader, in the Settings menu choose Advanced settings and then go to the Feeds tab. Find OPML option on the bottom of the screen.

In the OPML section press Choose file button to upload your OPML file with all your content feeds.

Advanced filters

Advanced filters is a very powerful and flexible feature that can significantly ease the task of selecting targeted content from the ocean of information coming through your content feeds. For example, you can set to automatically save new articles that mention a specific keyword to a specific personal feed. Or automatically mark as read or hide new articles that mention specific keywords.

Go to the Filters tab to set up your advanced filters. If you are familiar with Gmail filters these filters work the same way.

Read more about advanced filters in our separate article.

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