If I were on Byline still, this would be no problem, because I’d just tap the Send to Instapaper button that works offline. That is EXACTLY the sore-spot of Reeder, which I have settled on. The bad is that the RSS feed only contains headlines, but no article content, and therefore requires ANYTHING you’re interested in to be processed for later reading. I’ve heard about it for awhile, and finally gave it a chance in my RSS reader, and the good is that it covers dozens of articles of great interest to me that I usually miss. And that is the discovery of HackerNews from Paul Graham’s YCombinator. So as you can see, I am a long-time hard-core addicted RSS news consumer.īut what inspired me to write this review this morning is actually a new situation that both pleases and frustrates me. I’ve been doing this since the Samsung i700 PDA phone, and later on the Sony Ericsson Headline app. I used to socially share my news merging my shared items from Google Reader and NewsGator with Yahoo Pipes and format it through a PHP proxy for widget-like integration on my website. I should have prefaced this article with the fact that I started out with on the iPhone with NetNewsWire on day one, moved to NewsStand, then to Byline, and briefly tried out a host of others like MobileRSS, Feedler and Pulse (yes, I have an iPad too). It was so much the case, that I had actually deleted Byline from my apps. As much as I want to keep Byline, Reeder has the killer RSS feature for me. I simply have to scan a large set of headlines and mark them read as quickly as possible (without article drill-down). Despite all the wonderful advantages of Byline, I still fit into this later category, and Reeder is hitting my sweet spot. Reeder is better if you have hundreds of articles to read, but mostly only skim headlines, and are much less interested in the in-article experience, and are willing to jump through hoops for Instapaper. But bottom line is that Byline is better for getting at the full article, both from offline Instapaper tagging and built-in full article caching. I rarely let it do that, unless I have WiFi. This is all the more true because Byline by default caches the entire full version of the article. So in other words, Byline is better if you’re offline a lot, have fewer articles to read, like the flipping-between-article experience, and are often interested in the full version of the article later on in Instapaper. )īyline also has a wonderful right/left swooshing motion reminiscent of eBooks to flip between ARTICLES once you’ve drilled down into the article–but if you have hundreds of articles to catch up on, this is very tedious and inferior to Reeder’s swish convenience on the headline list. It’s nowhere near as nice as Reeder’s great visual feedback, but given Byline’s offline goodness, I just may be going back. There’s no visual feedback, except for the blue dot disappearing if you do it right. ( UPDATE: I discovered a seemingly undocumented “one-swoosh” mark-as-read feature in Byline, if you start your finger in exactly the right spot over the blue dot. But I’m choosing Reeder’s one-swoosh mark-as-read feature over Byline’s offline Instapaper tagging. ![]() Of course it just synced up when online–but that’s the exact right behavior. Thanks to Friendfeed, I share my interesting articles as I go to Twitter with the app’s Google-share button, and curse Reeder for not letting me send items to Instapaper for later offline full article reading.Īs a small consolation prize, I send the interesting article links to my work email address, since that feature works offline, and lament that I’m not using Byline anymore, which could send items to Instapaper while offline. I do this offline on the subway one-handedly, with my large Dunkin Donuts coffee in the other. I read my custom tailored news every morning on Reeder on my iPhone, for its wonderful one-swoosh mark-as-read feature. Byline - Mobile RSS Reader Review by Mike Levin SEO & Datamaster, Byline - Mobile RSS Reader Review | Mike Levin □□in' MLSEO Linux Python vim git Mike Levin SEOįuture-proof your technology-skills with Linux, Python, vim & git.
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