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I like using Reader to manage my feed subscriptions, but nothing more. I don't want to share my content on any social network. Nor do I want to view the conte

by pplante 15y ago

I like using Reader to manage my feed subscriptions, but nothing more. I don't want to share my content on any social network. Nor do I want to view the content in an iframe. I would prefer to just click the row of the feed item and have it open in my browser like normal links. So for me the gui updates are sort of mixed. I agree its wasting a whole lot of screen space, but overall I like that it shares the same look every other google product is moving to. I feel like I use Google Reader incorrectly because it has so many extra features I have no use for. Anyone know of a product that does exactly what I described above?

mweatherill 15y ago
Are you aware of the keyboard shortcuts? "f" toggles fullscreen mode "2" toggles list mode "?" shows all shortcuts
- pplante 15y ago
  Yeah, I am aware of them. The problem is I want to just click the item and have it open in my browser, rather than show me a summary or embedded view of it. That is not possible with Reader.
  - phaylon 15y ago
    I usually just click the grey icon to the right, which opens the link the item points to. The expanded view is still useful though, since for example HN points to the posted link and not the comments page.
  - mweatherill 15y ago
    The arrow item to the right of the story title will open it in a new tab. Is that what you are after or am I missing something?
sabret00the 15y ago
I've been using Brief (http://brief.mozdev.org/ http://brief.mozdev.org/), it's something that Firefox should fold into the browser, but they won't. There's a limit to what I want to share with Google.
- bad_user 15y ago
  Brief is cool. I just tried it out. Thanks for the suggestion.
jackbach 15y ago
I'm working on this concept: http://forr.st/~wnA http://forr.st/~wnA Key features are: - In the browser - Twitter like articles stream (just post titles) - Nice UI - Pin to read an article later - Star to bookmark an article - Organize in folders
- joeshaw 15y ago
  So, how long until we can try it out? I'm happy to be a beta tester for you. :)
  - jackbach 15y ago
    The current status is: app design and mark-up (html + less) 90% done, front end (js with backbone) 40%, back end (node.js + mongoDB) 20%, product page design and mark up 70%. I'm so happy you feel like testing it :) you (or anybody that wants to) can contact me. My gmail is jackjackbach.

by pplante 15y ago

mweatherill 15y ago

Are you aware of the keyboard shortcuts? "f" toggles fullscreen mode "2" toggles list mode "?" shows all shortcuts

pplante 15y ago
Yeah, I am aware of them. The problem is I want to just click the item and have it open in my browser, rather than show me a summary or embedded view of it. That is not possible with Reader.
- phaylon 15y ago
  I usually just click the grey icon to the right, which opens the link the item points to. The expanded view is still useful though, since for example HN points to the posted link and not the comments page.
- mweatherill 15y ago
  The arrow item to the right of the story title will open it in a new tab. Is that what you are after or am I missing something?

sabret00the 15y ago

I've been using Brief (http://brief.mozdev.org/ http://brief.mozdev.org/), it's something that Firefox should fold into the browser, but they won't. There's a limit to what I want to share with Google.

bad_user 15y ago
Brief is cool. I just tried it out. Thanks for the suggestion.

jackbach 15y ago

I'm working on this concept: http://forr.st/~wnA http://forr.st/~wnA Key features are: - In the browser - Twitter like articles stream (just post titles) - Nice UI - Pin to read an article later - Star to bookmark an article - Organize in folders

joeshaw 15y ago
So, how long until we can try it out? I'm happy to be a beta tester for you. :)
- jackbach 15y ago
  The current status is: app design and mark-up (html + less) 90% done, front end (js with backbone) 40%, back end (node.js + mongoDB) 20%, product page design and mark up 70%. I'm so happy you feel like testing it :) you (or anybody that wants to) can contact me. My gmail is jackjackbach.