Trying Google Reader
I recently started using a Mac. I am a huge consumer of RSS feeds and absolutely love Nick Bradbury’s FeedDemon. However, I have been less impressed with NetNewsWire, NewsGator’s Mac feed reader. I tried NetNewsWire first because I can get a good discount as a current FeedDemon owner.
On the recommendation of Marcus, I have proceeded to try Google Reader. This post will grow over the next few days as I dig in.
My first impression is negative because when importing my OPML feed from FeedDemon, the folders, which I have spent lots of time organizing, were not retained. All the feeds were dumped alphabetically into a single folder.
As of the moment, I haven’t moved forward until I can see if this issue can be worked around.
Update: Well, the “Updated” view seems to have solved all the info overload that not having my folders seemed to create. Yes, you can create folders, but it seems better to only show me the feeds which I have updates. If I need to find something I read a while back, I can always do a search or just switch to the “All” view.
It’s growing on me.