I've been using FeedDemon for two weeks now. Here are my thoughts:
- + I have two machines so the way sync'ing just happens is great.
- + Gives me access to both internal and external feeds in one place. When I was using Google Reader I started ignoring Bandit and missed internal updates for extended periods.
- + Reports to help me manage dead feeds. Probably comparable, although quite different, to Google Reader.
- + Clip folders have given a bit more structure and context to posts that are of interest. I never really used the tagging in Google Reader.
- - The toolbar for each feed (to flag, share, mark read etc) is at the top of the feed, so I keep scrolling up and down.
- +- I initially missed the auto-mark-read-as-I-scroll feature of Google Reader, but now I'm not so sure. I quite like being in control of when feeds are marked read.
- - I would to have the option for links to open in new tabs by default, instead I have to remember to click on the little icon next to the feed title. I guess once in the habit I won't mind this so much.
- + Prefetch seems an excellent feature, although I haven't needed to use it yet.
- - The keyboard shortcuts seems a bit odd. Ctrl-Shft-A to mark a feed as read, Ctrl-R to mark the whole folder of feeds as read. On the plus side you can configure all the keyboard shortcuts.
- - FeedStation doesn't auto clean up on a per feed basis. Some podcasts are daily, some weekly or less frequent. I use Juice and will continue to do so.
- Combined internal/external with the sync'ing between machines (at least for the external feeds)


1 comments:
Richard, totally agree with you and now just do not know how I lived withouth Newsgator. That said, some of the new stuff is I gather new (the online access to your feeds still is in beta it looks like).
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