Google Reader
I’ve got a question which I was hoping somebody would help me with. I love Google Reader, I really do, loads of great things about this little application to like, in the same way that I like Gmail as well. My only problem with it right now is one function that is not present and I was wondering if others are having the same problem as well, and if there is any easy way to rectify this (like a greasemonkey script or something similar. Basically the way I read my feeds doesn’t allow me to read EVERYTHING in one go. Which is fine, no problem. Those items i’ve not read remain unread. The problem is that when i get back to reading things the newer feeds get placed at the top (which is fine and dandy) but all of the read items are mixed in with the unread ones. So what happens then is that I have to spend a long time scrolling down to the previous items.
Obviously sometimes (read: most times) i can’t be fucked and so i just ‘mark all as read’, which really defeats the object doesn’t it. Anyone have any ideas how to get around this, or is knows whether or not google might be looking to sort this out, or where I can send my email towards?
What I do (and forgive me if I misunderstood what you’re trying to accomplish here) is click on “All Items,” make sure it’s only showing the new/unread items, and then in the “View Settings” dropdown, I change it to “sort by oldest” - that way whenever I log in, I can click on All Items and it starts me right where I left off.
The view setting only applies to “All Items,” so if I want to read stuff from a particular blog, it still puts the newest stuff at top - which is nice because I can set it on a per-blog basis - I keep “All Items” and Kotaku sorted by oldest, and leave everything else sorted by newest.
↓ Quote | 6/2/2008
I don’t bother with read/unread status. What I do is skim through all of my unread articles and star the ones that I want to read later. It works for me because I’m usually checking Google Reader from my iPhone, but there are usualy a few articles that I want to review later when I’m on a real computer.
I hope that helps! If the problem is that you just can’t skim through all of the articles in one sitting, then Scott has the solution you’re looking for.
↓ Quote | 6/2/2008
If that happens, I switch from ‘Show: All Items’ to ‘New Items” - I go to ‘All’ then back to ‘New’ and it seems to work.
↓ Quote | 6/2/2008
I almost always browse GReader via the new items link (it’s a little bit below the search box as an actual text link). Should solve your problem.
↓ Quote | 7/2/2008
Hhehe, oops. I COMPLETELY missed the ‘new items’ link. Complete brain fart on my part. How embarrassing. Thanks guys :). Although definitely good point about the view older first as well, makes more sense in general.
↓ Quote | 7/2/2008
I have been trying many different ways to read in google reader. I find that ‘new items’ + ‘list view’ works best for me.
↓ Quote | 12/2/2008
Has anyone figured out a way to use the keyboard shortcut “v” in Safari to open a Google Reader post, but preferably in at new background tab?
I had that thing working in FireFox with this script, http://sunnywu.net/2007/08/02/google-reader-tweak-open-links-in-background/, but it doesn’t seem to work with Cream Monkey and Safari :(
↓ Quote | 3/3/2008