Google Reader is currently the leader in the number of users among offline and online RSS readers. We offer some tips on how to make working with it even more enjoyable, as well as some not obvious, but useful functions that it is simply stuffed with.
1. Drag and drop. Your feeds in the left column are sorted alphabetically by default. Drag and drop feeds and you can arrange them as you like.
2. Date of publication and receipt by you. Hover the mouse over the date in the post and get the exact date when the blog entry appeared, as well as the date when you first received the entry from your Google Reader.
3. Extended feed information. Click on "show details" and you will be shown how often the blog is updated (posts per week), as well as how many people are subscribed to the feed in Google Reader. In fairness, it should be said that the number of readers is a very strange figure. For example, for TechCrunch, the figure is 27,814, although according to FeedBurner statistics, the audience is 773,000.
4. Mark interesting posts as unread. If you do not have time to read it, then without marking it as unread, you will simply lose the information.
5. Sorting feeds. You can drag feeds into folders in the right column, or you can do systematic sorting in Settings -> Subscriptions. do not forget that when reading, you can tag posts. Sorting will be greatly appreciated by you if you decide to read RSS feeds from a mobile phone or PDA.
6. Share with comments. If you read a blog that you like and want all those with whom you correspond via Gmail or Google Talk to know about it, provided that they also use Google Reader, then you can advise them your read entries, however, do not forget that you can also leave a comment to explain what is good for you in this post.
via Cool Google Reader Features Which You Might Have Missed
