

Their platform allows you to display your subscriptions with titles only, magazine style, timeline with thumbnails, mosaic, or full articles. They are working on a system to transition all of your feeds from Google Reader into Feedly before July 1st. The following are my web-based favorites so far.įeedly works with Chrome, Firefox, and mobile devices and syncs with Google Reader to manage your RSS feeds. There are others if you want to install them to your computer like Feeddemon for Windows and Reeder for Mac. I migrate from laptop to desktop to mobile, so I am only choosing web-based RSS readers that also play well on my iPhone. Now that you know handle RSS feeds, here are the alternatives I am considering. UPDATE: Head over to the latest post with 11 RSS readers you can use as Google Reader alternatives starting July 1st! The following are my web-based favorites so far. I migrate from laptop to desktop to mobile, so I am only choosing web-based options. In this zip file, you will find your subscriptions.xml which you can use to import your RSS feeds from Google Reader to other services. You will then get to download a zip file of your Google Reader subscriptions.

To do this, you can go to Google Takeout and click the Create Archive button. The first thing you will want to do is export your RSS subscriptions in Google Reader. How to Export Your Google Reader RSS Feeds & Subscriptions It made it easy to find posts on a specific topic so I could create lists like 79 Link Building Resources for 2012. I also use(d) the search in Google Reader for curating content. This way, when I want to tweet a post I like, I don’t have to search for their Plus, when I’m ready to periodically purge my RSS feeds, I can look at the Twitter handles and figure out quickly whether I have engaged with them or not. Then I rename each subscription with the blog’s main Twitter handle. 242 subscriptions to be exact.Įach time I subscribe to a blog, I organize them by topic (Blogging, Freelance, Social Media, SEO, etc.). I follow a lot of blogs and various RSS feeds. A Little About How I Use(d) Google Reader Now there is three and a half months to find a suitable alternative. The Learn More takes you to a page that tells you what you can export using their Google Takeout tool, but nothing in the way of alternatives. As you can imagine, this stopped me in my tracks.

If you follow my writing, you probably know how much I love Google Reader.
