All the good stuff is on other blogs

You do mean like MaryAm’s?

Heheh. Touche!

Full Screen? You can get almost full screen in Google Reader with the “u” key shortcut… it gets rid of the list of blogs/tags.

I couldn’t agree more. I decided to try to live with just Google Reader instead of NetNewsWire (which is a fine feed reeder) and it looks like I won’t be heading back to NNW any time soon.

Great source of information you have going here Robert.

Mike,
http://www.blindsquirrel.org

I was hooked on Newsgator for so long but truly the Google Reader is better. The keyboard shortcuts do make all the difference.

Hey Robert, even better than J,J,J is:
Spacebar = J
Shift+Spacebar = K
and yes as Aaron mentioned, “u” hides/unhides the sidebar.
The Google Reader is the best RSS reader bar none.
And the BEST part is they’re just gettin’ started.
Gotta LOVE Google !!!

Cheers

This is the greatest could use an offline reader to make it perfect, but I can wait. Here is the list of those wonderful shortcuts:
* j/k: next/previous item
* space/ + space: next/previous item or page
* n/p: scan down/up (list only)
* o/enter: expand/collapse (list only)
* s: star item
* + s: share item
* v: view original
* t: tag item
* m: mark item as read
* r: refresh
* u: toggle full screen mode
* + a: mark all as read
* 1: switch to expanded view
* 2: switch to list view
* + n/p: next/previous subscription
* + x: expand folder
* + o: open subscription or folder
* g then h: go home
* g then a: go to all items
* g then s: go to starred items
* g then t: open tag selector
* g then u: open subscription selector

You should try adding the Google reader to the personalized Google home page. You can skim all the latest blog entries you’re subscribed to from there as well and not worry about seeing the list of blogs.

Forgot about the html – all of the shortcuts that start with a + have a SHIFT in front of them, for example: SHIFT + x – expand folder.

Sorry about that

Guy

just to reiterate what Aaron B. Hockley said, use “u” to hide the blog list.
unfortunately there is not visual indication, like a

one more thing – to make the keyboard shortcut reading complete, i think there needs a modified “v”.
Use ‘v’ to open the item in a new window/tab, but unfortunately doing so takes the focus away from the Reader tab. I would like ‘v’ or something else to open the item in a background tab.

> I just wish they would allow me to see the river
> full screen and get rid of the list of blogs I’m
> subscribed to. Once I’m subscribed I don’t care
> anymore.

Try hitting “u”.

Bloglines has this, too. I prefer it because it just feels snappier than Google Reader. I may be wrong, but I think Bloglines had it before Google Reader.

But yes, j j j is the way to go.

I am still a big fan of the flock reader, myself. I used to use RSSBandit, but Flock does it for me.

J is helpful but when you get to 20 items, it takes to long to load the next 20 items! It ruins my surfing! It is the best reader though, I love it, even having to wait an extra 10 seconds for the next items to load.

Dude, that rocks thanks for the info!

I was an onfolio user for a long time, then Microsoft bought it out and doesn’t look like they will be supporting firefox anymore. So I tried out rojo and bloglines, loved rojo except for no shortcuts so I switched to bloglines. Now since google readers upgrades it will take me a lot of convincing to switch from google reader. JJJ K JJJ Oh, and don’t forget the M shortcut or the S shortcut.

-Jeff

Bloglines gets my vote.

It’s faster and the layout makes more sense to me. I think it even has an offline mode too, but I have not used it.

Oh, and it works great in Opera Mobile to!

Mihai Parparita at Google’s Gmail team has made the reader one better with a script on this page that adds feeds as a folder in gmail.

All other aggregators are looking more and more like toast in the long term since feed reading is not function that requires a stand alone application.

j and k are forward and back? Some dirty Google hackers are vi sympathizers

Hehehe is this PR to get on first suggested blogs?

I’m still SharpReadering it, Google Reader reminds me of a flow reader circa the CLHish Vi era…

Has anyone noticed that when loading Google Reader that if you have the Skype phone number tagging thingy (the thing that finds phone numbers in sites), that reader cannot load. I get a nice Error on page from IE7 but when I de-activate the skype thing it works fine! – I do hope it’s not just me!

More and more I am shifting away from the Mac and Windows clients I’ve been using and moving towards Google Reader.

I’ve switched from Bloglines to Google Reader recently. I used to think Bloglines was great, but then it started to niggle me. For example, it’s frame based so I couldn’t imbed it in a iframe on my start page I set up. Also, it’s pretty darn ugly. On a whim, I tried out Google Reader and there’s no way I’m going back. Much prettier interface, single frame, and river of news. It’s also much more interesting to read feeds all intermingled rather than by category (Gen Dev, Web Design, F1, etc.) like I used to.

One thing: I’m using n and p to go forwards and back. Don’t know why — I tried it (as a Google Calendar user) and it works, even though it’s listed as something else.

One thing I find annoying is v loads in a new window but I’m convinced I set FF to load new windows as new tabs. If possible, it’d be nice to have a t for load in new tab or something (or is this just my FF settings whacked!)