Your personal newsreader: how it works with Feedly
Your personal newsreader: how it works with Feedly

Your personal newsreader: how it works with Feedly

An RSS or news reader is an app or service that lets you read news and blog articles from various sources in one central place, without having to visit each website individually. You simply subscribe to the RSS feeds of your favorite sites, and new articles automatically appear in your feed.

This is better than consuming news via Facebook, for example, because you get unfiltered, chronologically sorted content directly from the sources – without an algorithm deciding what you see. This way, you avoid filter bubbles, ads, and manipulative trends that often distort the view of relevant news on social networks. Plus, personal posts don’t get mixed up with news.

My recommendation: Feedly.com. Feedly is free, works in the browser and as a mobile app, has only a single ad block, and I’ve been using it for years. And if I ever want to switch, it’s very easy to do so.

Getting started with Feedly is really simple:

Sign Up

Open Feedly.com and create an account:

Then login via Google (which I did, to just avoid another password) or create an account via email/password:

Afterwards assign a name to your profile:

The registration is complete! Now the news sources are added.

Adding Sources

In the main section, for example, search for “franzgraf.de” and then click on “Follow”.
Feedly organizes the sources in folders, so click on “New Folder” …

Done!

Additional Sources

The news items are listed at the top under “Today”.
New sources can be added to the small (RSS) symbol on the left:

Here you can add for example:

Mobile Apps

You can use Feedly on your cell phone via the corresponding app.
Sources, read articles and saved articles are automatically synchronized.

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