After my last post about RSS feeds and Feedly, some interesting follow-up questions came up, leading me to this follow-up post. So here are 3 more useful productivity tips for Feedly.
Quickly Subscribe to RSS Feeds
When you come across an interesting RSS source on the web (for example, the Publishing Blog), you can quickly and easily add it to your Feedly collection or a specific Feedly board using a browser extension. The extension is available for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Simply install it in your browser and you’ll get a button that allows you to subscribe to an RSS feed quickly and easily.
If you want to learn about other ways of adding feeds, this blog post from Feedly is recommended. I also like to copy the URL of the interesting page and switch to Feedly. There, I enter the copied URL into the search field in the top right. This way, I get all available feeds from the site and can add the feed directly to a specific folder in my feed collection.
Read RSS Articles Later
Feedly is incredibly useful for collecting and reading multiple feeds. In the list view, you can quickly scroll through the titles of posts and pick out the important ones. If you don’t have time to read the entire post, you can save it for later. This can be done in Feedly itself or in connection with a read-it-later service like Pocket.
On this topic, there’s also a great article from Feedly itself.
For example, I’ve set up the Feedly mobile app so that I only need to long-press an interesting article in the list once, and it’s saved to Pocket. You can find the corresponding settings in the Settings menu. Instead of Pocket, I could alternatively specify Safari’s reading list. Or a Feedly board that I share with other people.
Share RSS Collections with Others
Modern knowledge management also includes sharing your knowledge with others. Feedly offers a great feature for this – Boards. In Feedly, I can create various thematic boards. These help me collect and bundle articles on different topics.
The great thing about boards is that I can share them with other people. This way, I can curate knowledge for myself and simultaneously for others. And even better: I can invite other people to contribute interesting posts to the board. This way, we curate an important topic together. (To be fair, it must be said that Feedly Teams is not free in this form)
Feedly wouldn’t be Feedly if this topic wasn’t also explained in an easy-to-understand article. Bonus: here you can also learn how to make annotations and comments in Feedly.
