Macos rss reader update#
Macos rss reader series#

It’s worth poking around in settings when you first set up lire and then revisiting them after you’ve used the app for a while to see if there’s anything else you’d like to change. You can set your sync service here and adjust sound settings, badging, appearance, the Discover section, sorting, article-specific settings, and more. There are too many settings for touring them all, but like any good power user RSS client, lire gives you a lot of control. For example, you can set it up to star or unstar a story, or send it to Safari Reading List, Instapaper, Pocket, Pinboard, my personal pick, GoodLinks, and others. The toolbar shortcut can be customized in lire’s settings to show one of several services or other actions.

Macos rss reader series#

Along the bottom of the article view are a series of action buttons for marking individual articles as read or unread, sharing the article, moving forward or backward through your articles, tagging, and a toolbar shortcut, which is my favorite button. In the article pane, lire lets you change the font, margins, text size, line spacing, and more by tapping the ‘Aa’ button in the toolbar. In this view, it’s easy to get back to the first two columns by swiping in from the left edge of the iPad or using a two-finger swipe across the toolbar if you’re using a trackpad. There’s also a button to mark all articles in the section you’re reading as read, and swiping left and right across an article in the list reveals two customizable actions in each direction.įor focused reading, you can hide both columns on concentrate on one article at a time. At the top of the list is a search bar, and at the bottom there are controls for filtering the article view, so it displays all, unread, starred, or any of six other combinations. The article list can be grouped by date or subscription and sorted by date and latest to the oldest or the other way around. Most of the time though, I select a folder, collapse the left panel, and scan the headlines tapping on the stories I want to read. It’s a minor point, but with a lot of feeds, the more I can control what I see onscreen, the better. However, I’d like to be able to collapse the top-level headers too for those times when I don’t want to browse by any of the five sections under Discover, for example. That’s a big space saver because I don’t dip into my RSS feeds by publication very often. For example, that lets me tap on the Apple folder and view its contents without viewing the names of the individual feeds. The subheadings beneath each of the main three sections in the left sidebar can be expanded and collapsed. Many of lire’s features can also be accessed with context menus. It’s a loose tool that lets me quickly bypass certain topics when I don’t have time for them. I use folders to organize most of my feeds by topic. Authors – your feeds reorganized by the people that wrote the posts.Calm Feeds – posts from feeds that don’t publish often.Recent (called Today if set to display one day of posts) – the articles published within a user-defined period.Linked List – link posts from your feeds.

The second section in lire’s left panel is Discover, which collects special feeds created by lire from the feeds you follow, including:

Macos rss reader update#

I’m especially happy that Active Searches are supported because it lets me focus on a subset of topics that I’m researching, like the upcoming update to macOS. The top section of the left panel allows me to browse all the articles in my feed as well as tagged items and Active Searches that I set up in Inoreader’s web app. I use Inoreader to sync my feeds and appreciate that lire supports the service’s tagging and Active Search features. Lire supports multiple RSS sync services or can be used in a standalone mode. Lire’s left and middle columns can be hidden.