Feedly App for Android and iOS⎜Fix Your News Fix

So I sort of got happily stuck for awhile over the Feedly feed app this morning and I’m so glad that by using one Google ID my Feedly news has united my favorite blog and youtube updates across both my iPad mini and my Samsung S5 phone. There is also the option of signing up with your Facebook account. I needed something newer and quicker than Pulse reader, which seems to have changed and not for the better once LinkedIn took over. I noticed that some RSS string feeds from sites I had saved weren’t updating and if they did they wouldn’t deliver thumbnails of the posts (that’s the cover photo of the article, in case you don’t know what a thumbnail is)! That just wouldn’t do for me, so for now I’ve moved over to Feedly.

What’s also nice about Feedly is once you’ve viewed an update or read the post it will disappear from the list and move to the Recently Read category. There is also the lovely option to automate opening the actual blog post links in browser or YouTube if you’re traditional and don’t want to read the articles within Feedly. You can still be redirected from the app to your favorite sites, but at least all of your updates are sorted in one place. Feedly largely reduces wasted time of typing in website URLs and app hopping and if you see the feed has no update then you needn’t go to it. Click through to see how I’ve fixed my news using Feedly and how different pages look.

The only time consuming thing at the start is adding your sites and channels, once you’ve done that checking updates is a breeze. In the search option (magnifying glass) in the upper right hand corner you need to copy paste the browser URL addresses one at a time to add them and you will be asked to add them to categories/folders you can edit names of. Currently my biggest categories are Beauty, and YouTube, that’s how I’ve divided them.

LIST View

I also love that you’ve got layout options there’s the plain text Title Only view which is only a text ist, my favorite seen above is the List view, and a nice blogazine type view is Magazine view seen here with Essie Button’s site.

MAGAZINE View

What’s even cooler is, the layouts can be set differently per feed, so some of your sites can be in List view, some in Magazine view, and some in Cards which is tile style post layout. Here below is how my YouTube list appears.

For videos the only catch is you don’t have the YouTube option of increasing the hd res option within Feedly, but just use the “open Website direcly” setting for your channels if you’d rather not play videos within Feedly so it will open the video out of the app using your YouTube app. I can see why there’ve been online remarks like “why wouldn’t you get Feedly” because it’s such a useful, speedy, streamlined, nearly bug- free app that delivers and organizes your news fix. Feedly has particularly gotten praise in its Android format, but it is also free and available for Apple users, and I haven’t encountered a bug yet in my iPad mini. As a blogger and content provider I kind of miss the horizontal feed list platform of Pulse reader, but I do love how speedy checking on my feeds via Feedly is once I’ve set up my categories and lists. You guys should try it. I’ve just finished completing for now my News category.