Google Reader - delights and woes
I’ll admit it: Google Reader is the one app that got me into feed reading (rather, checking) again.
I used to dedicate large chunks of my ‘free’ online time to check feeds into NetNewsWire. The latest version was nice, but something didn’t click eventually. I stopped using it and started getting some things done instead.
Then the need for me arose: I needed my feeds, everywhere. To check something or to gather info for upcoming articles. The obvious solution: Google Reader.
I first was kinda taken aback with the whole exporting-importing procedure (which was kinda hideous), but when I had my feeds all neatly categorized, I was up and rolling. I actually found out that I checked feeds much more efficiently in Google Reader, while being natively in the browser, I could check out particular blog posts and blogs in a breeze.
So I’ve found the equilibrium between effective time and casual feed reading, all because of it.
I have a pet peeve though. A particularly annoying one.
I use to star all interesting articles, to write about them later. So when I’m browsing the starred posts and decide to remove one post from the list, I check on the star and it vanishes. But why doesn’t the post vanish too from the list?
I actually have to hit refresh to get it off my screen. Which is kinda annoying.
I guess they did it to avoid ‘losing’ posts accidentally in all the heap. But why can’t this be done with an undo technique, like in Google Mail?
Sigh.
