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If you share an article in Google Reader it can be seen by any of the people 'following' your account (an attempt by Google to dip into social networking). The release notes for Newsbeuter say that it supports not only syncing with Google Reader, but also the sharing and starring features in Reader. I started with my Google Reader account and found that Newsbeuter works as advertised - albeit with a bit of work. Note that Newsbeuter also supports Bloglines, but I don't have an active Bloglines account. That release has some issues with Google Reader sync, so if you're on Ubuntu or an Ubuntu-derived distribution and want Reader support you'll need to compile from source. Note that 2.3 is packaged for Fedora, but not for Ubuntu which still carries the 2.2 release. The 2.3 release of Newsbeuter was released in June, so I compiled that and set to work. I also found it interesting because it offered synchronization with Google Reader - meaning that it should be a simple thing to maintain my existing feeds without any real hassle. Newsbeuter is a text-based newsreader that bears more than a passing resemblance to Mutt, not just in appearance but also in configurability.

The name is a play on 'Wildbeuter,' which is German for 'hunter-gatherer,' which seems apt enough for how one forages for information today. Newsreaders, I decided to skim the open source options for news reading to see if I could make the switch. Reader as the best option to manage and read my feeds - but after To get it quicklyĪnd efficiently, I use a newsreader to skim the RSS or Atom feeds from Like many people, I get almost all of my news online. Obviously I use folders and whatnot, and having it be a desktop program (not web-based! nor cli) with an internal browser for viewing the content is a basic requirement for me.This article was contributed by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier.

Rssowl all feeds software#

This is the feature I use the most of RSSOwl (called in that program 'saved searches'), but both readers I've tried from the software manager did not have it, as far as I could see. The ability to search within feeds, not just a single feed, but a broad search for instance, if I wanted to see every feed that referred to a specific country somehow, I could put that country in as the keyword so when I click on that filter, it would display only the items that contained that country's name, from the feeds I set it to search (not just global search of every feed in the client). I had over 300 recently, but have been paring it back some.

The ability to handle upwards of 200 feeds with thousands of unread items in them without crashing. These are the two main features I would need it to have: (I've considered copying all the feeds down and starting a fresh database of RSSOwl to see if that helps, but I have too many old items I'd like to get to - when I don't have to use it for new items and can turn off the updating.) I've tried a few clients in the Software Manager but found them low on features and not really suitable, and wondered if anyone here knew of one that would work. I still love using it, but mine's buggy as all get-out (randomly crashing a lot now when it didn't use to), and I'd like to start fresh - but I'd like to have another client to transition to slowly rather than wholesale fresh start, due to the complexity involved.

Rssowl all feeds windows#

I've been using RSSOwl for years - on Windows and then on Mint when I switched five years ago. So I'm running Mint 18.1 Mate 64-bit (haven't gotten around to upgrading to 18.2 yet).