Supercharge your Inoreader with IFTTT automation!

June 15, 2015, 6:26 am

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Inoreader is all about saving you time and helping you stay productive - as we’re huge fans of automation, we’re happy to announce that you can now find the Inoreader channel on IFTTT (If This Then That). This integration has been something many of you have requested over time and a great way to use the full potential of Inoreader and bring more power for content management and sharing.

IFTTT helps you create connections between apps and services. It gives you creative control over the way apps interact with recipes - different connections between apps. You just have to sign up (the service is free) and you can start creating your own recipes or use popular ones created by other users. You can keep your own recipes private or (better yet) publish them for everyone to enjoy.

Check out Inoreader’s channel to get some ideas what you can do with recipes and start creating your own. You’ll be able to use more than 180 channels, including social media apps like Facebook and Twitter, note-taking services like Evernote and One Note, mobile notifications and much more. By creating recipes with IFTTT you can automate an endless amount of different actions - for example “IF there’s a new article with a specific tag in Inoreader, THEN share it on Facebook” or “IF you star an article, THEN save it to Evernote”.

Here are some recipes to give you an idea of what you can do with Inoreader on IFTTT:

Share a recipe and win Inoreader Pro!

To celebrate the integration with IFTTT, we’re going to do give away 5 Inoreader Professional annual subscriptions. To win one, you just have to:

1. Create an IFTTT recipe with Inoreader.
2. Publish your recipe on IFTTT so that others can see it - to do this, open the recipe for editing and click the Publish button.
3. Share the recipe on Facebook, Twitter or Google+ with the hashtag #inoreaderIFTTT

The contest is open for participation until 30 June, 11:59 pm GMT. We will choose 3 winners at random out of all participants. The other 2 winners will be chosen by our team based on recipe originality and usefulness. We will announce the winners on 2 July, as we will have to go through all entries and fight for the recipes we like best.

So don’t hesitate - create your first recipe today!

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A hat-trick for Inoreader

June 19, 2015, 5:55 am

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Yesterday at an official ceremony Inoreader won 3 of the categories in the Bulgarian Web Awards 2015. Winning on home turf is always deeply satisfying, and we felt compelled to share the news with you all.

We got to apply for the awards almost in the last minute, but, it turns out, the jury recognised Inoreader's potential and awarded us in 3 categories - that's all the categories we entered in, a clean 100% success rate! Here's the official announcement for the news (in Bulgarian, English version here). 

The panel we took part in is "Technology and Design" and the awards we got are in the categories "Mobile application", "Complex web project" and "Single page application":

The competition was fierce and we're very happy for being recognized by the jury among so many great projects. We'd like to use this occasion to thank you, our users, for making Inoreader such a rich and vibrant platform. We know these are the first of many awards to come!

Follow Facebook pages in Inoreader

June 30, 2015, 6:34 am

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We know that many people get their news primarily through social media. Nowadays many brands, celebrities and public figures break news on their Twitter profiles or Facebook pages and that’s a surefire way for journalists and fans alike to keep track of updates. We’ve always strived to give you access to all the content you want, be it a blog post or a social network update - and today we’re adding to the family of social subscriptions with feeds for Facebook pages.

Facebook is a very dynamic network and updates flow in all the time. This makes it really difficult to stay in touch with some of your preferred sources - no matter how limited your Facebook network is, you are still bound to lose some news in the news feed flow. Of course, you’re able to get notifications for posts by specific pages - but wouldn’t it be easier to get all the posts straight in one place - say… in Inoreader? Starting today, you’re able to do just that.

You can link a Facebook page simply by pasting the URL in the Search or subscribe bar:

If you haven’t linked your Facebook profile to Inoreader, or have done that some time ago, you will see a prompt to connect your account - just click the link and approve the app:

Once you’ve subscribed to the Facebook page feed, you can work with it like with any other feed in Inoreader - add it to your preferred folder, get some rules on the way, add the appropriate tags and so on. This will give you many options to follow information from your favorite Facebook sources.

Based on Facebook’s API, it currently isn’t possible to get feeds for personal profiles or searches - if a chance presents itself in the future, we’ll surely extend the functionality. Facebook page feeds are available to all users, but there are some restrictions:

• Basic users can have one Facebook page feed.
• Plus users can have up to 20 Facebook page feeds.
• Professional users can have up to 60 Facebook page feeds.

IFTTT - useful recipes and giveaway winners

July 2, 2015, 4:34 am

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We launched our Inoreader IFTTT channel just over 2 weeks ago and the response by the community has been tremendous. We’re happy you find this integration useful - it took us lots of time and effort and it’s great to see what our users are doing with it.

An amazing launch

Just 4 days into the integration the stats were soaring with:

• 1260 Channel Activations, 
• 1490 active Personal Recipes 
• 97 Published Recipes 
• 65203 Recipes Runs in total across all active Recipes

Now we’re looking at much higher numbers and Inoreader is included not just in the New and Noteworthy section on IFTTT, but also is in the Top 100 chefs. This means we managed to give you the essential recipes right from the start, which feels great! We’re also going through the new published recipes and there are some interesting uses of Inoreader we didn’t think of, but our users have.

Here’s a couple of our trending recipes:

The IFTTT giveaway winners

We announced that we’ll give away 5 Professional subscriptions among those who share their own recipes with us. The 3 winners that were drawn randomly are Vladimir Gareski, Erwan François and Rick Shide.

We also chose 2 of our favorite recipes. It was really hard to choose just 2 out of the many suggestions and after much discussion here are the winners:

Fernando Belaza:

Tyler Regas:


Congratulations! Winners will receive information by email from us shortly.

Follow all the news from Comic-Con with Inoreader

July 8, 2015, 3:33 am

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Comic-Con is one of the best events of the year for true nerds (like me). It's not just a show - it's a place where news get broken about a myriad of TV series, sci-fi movies, book series and everything related to that specific culture. The 46th edition of Comic-Con starts on Thursday and we are all holding our collective breath to hear news from San Diego about Batman vs. Superman, Game of Thrones, X-Men: Apocalypse, The Walking Dead and, of course, the oh-so-waited-for Star Wars Episode VII.

There are a couple of ways you can prepare for the event, if you don't want any news to fly under your radar. Set-up your Comic-Con listening hub in Inoreader - it will take less than 3 minutes:

• Subscribe to the Comic-Con website feed: just hit the Subscribe button and you'll have the official news coming from Comic-Con right away.
• Add the Comic-Con Twitter account - just paste the account URL in the Search bar and all new tweets will come straight to your Inoreader. If you have any questions about subscribing to social feeds, read our full how-to.
• Add the Comic-Con Facebook page - seems like we launched the new Facebook page feature just in time. Get the page URL and paste it in the Search bar. 
• Add YouTube channels - the official Comic-Con channel seems a bit stale and we're not sure if it will feature any videos from the event, but there are many channels that will post original content - my personal favorite being The Nerdist. The YouTube channels of production companies like Warner Bros. or HBO's Game of Thrones are a sure place for any exclusive footage that may be revealed at Comic-Con. And finally, IGN and other news companies will be your go-to place for interveiws, reactions and more. Just build your list of 4-5 trusted sources by adding the URL of the channel or user in the Search bar.
• Create an Active Search - if you want all the news, search for "comic-con" and create an active search. You'll be getting the information about Comic-Con as it is posted in one aggregated feed. Active Search can retrieve all related articles from your subscriptions or return results from all public feeds with Global Search (requires a Professional account)

What Comic-Con news are you looking forward to? Do you have a favorite go-to source for nerd news? Let us know in the comments below!

Inoreader How-to: Monitor hot topics with Active Search

July 13, 2015, 7:01 am

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You can subscribe to lots of different feeds, but especially if you follow multi-topic sites, it’ll be hard to have all information about a specific topic in one place. You may well follow Engadget, The Verge and Wired, but you may also want to have the Android-related articles in one dedicated place. This is where Active Search can help.

Active Search lets you get all the information on a given topic in one place. Here’s a couple of use cases:

• get all articles about Android from your subscriptions in one place
• separate the Facebook-related articles from your Social Media folder in a dedicated feed
• make a feed that shows only recipes about quinoa dishes and chocolate dessert from your YouTube cooking channels
• monitor posts about your brand or yourself
• get all posts about “Game of Thrones” in your Inoreader

So, let’s say you want to check out the latest news of the upcoming Star Wars episode. You can just type in the search term you’re looking for and choose the type of search you want to perform from the dropdown menu:

You can view all articles in your subscriptions that match the keywords, or only articles in a specific section (you need to select the folder or feed first to see this option). Finally, you can also use Global Search to search in all public articles - not just your personal subscriptions. This is a really powerful feature for our Professional users to monitor what others are saying about a brand or business or when there’s a topic you need to know everything about.

Once you perform the search, you’ll see additional search options - for example, I may want to see full phrase matches instead of the default match type and maybe see articles that mention Star Wars only in the title. Then with a click of a button you can create an Active Search:


This will add the search to your Inoreader and you’ll see new posts that match the search right when they are published. You can also get an RSS feed or HTML clip and use these to share your Active Search feed with others.

Since Active Search is a resource-intensive feature, it is subject to some limitations. Basic and Starter users can only have 1 Active Search. For more you’ll need to upgrade to a Plus plan with up to 20 active searches or a Professional plan for unlimited active searches.

Do you use Active Search already? What are you searching about?

See only relevant content with filtered feeds

July 14, 2015, 4:16 am

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The information overload is a very real modern “disease”. Even if you have a very narrow interest, most media’s generalist approach means you’ll have to sift through content in order to get to the few jams you’re actually interested in.

Now you can tackle this problem with our newest feature - feed filtering. It enables you to remove all the content you’re not interested in from a specific feed. Filtered Feeds only show articles from the past month. You can always delete the filter you’ve created to see all articles from your subscription and you can also edit the filter to refine or completely change your filtering.

So, let’s also answer a question Rules fans might be interested in - how are filtered feeds different from marking articles as read through rules? Well, marking articles as read means that the items will still be present in your subscription and if you check feeds in All articles mode, you’ll still be seeing them. Filtering feeds leaves only the articles you’re interested in, even if you look at all articles. This option is also useful for exporting feeds or HTML clips as they will only show the filtered results. This makes filtered feeds useful if you want to share content with others.

How to filter feeds?

Right-click on the chosen feed in the tree pane to bring up the feed settings menu. Then choose the Filter feed option:

Don’t forget that you can also access feed settings from the top menu when you’re viewing the feed:

You’ll see the filtering window where you can enter the filtering conditions. The options here are the same as the ones used in Rules, so you might already be familiar with them:

You can also filter results right after subscribing to a feed - there's a handy new option in the status message:

Once you’re done and save your filter, you’ll see only the filtered items. A blue bar will remind you that you’re seeing a filtered feed - of  course, you can hide this with a simple click.

Filtered feeds are presented with a yellow filter icon in your Subscriptions tab in Preferences. You can click the yellow filter icon to edit/delete a filter or any of the grey filter icons to create a filter for the specific feed:

Filtering feeds is subject to some limitations, but those are more relaxed than Rule limitations:

• Basic accounts can have 1 filtered feed
• Starter accounts can have up to 10 filtered feeds
• Plus accounts can have up to 30 filtered feeds
• Professional accounts can have an unlimited amount of filtered feeds

If you need more freedom, consider an upgrade!

Jump-start your automation by manually running Rules

July 15, 2015, 10:42 pm

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Many of our users absolutely love Rules and use them in all sorts of creative ways to automate their content organization and sharing. But since rules can only be applied to new items in your Inoreader, it is harder to make sure you’ve set up your rule correctly and to check how the rule will work. Now we’re also giving you the option to run rules retroactively on a set of recent items.

We believe this addition will give you an easy way to check how your new rules are performing in real life. It will also help you jump-start your automation process and quickly get a set of content you can work with. It will also help you get a step ahead - let’s say if you’re late in collecting the items about a new fad under a separate tag.

You can manually run a rule while creating it - click the Run rule link at the lower left corner of the window. To run the rule, Inoreader will automatically save it for you:

You can also manually run a rule when editing it - open Preferences - Rules and click on it:

Manually running a rule will apply it to the most recent 1000 articles from the past month (or all articles from the past month, if there are less than 1000 there). Additionally, any external actions - sending by email, mobile and desktop notifications, sending articles to services like Pocket or Evernote - will be limited to 10 occurrences per service so as not to overload your accounts.

Manually running rules is available to our Plus and Professional users.

Do you plan to run your next rule manually? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Quickly create new Rules and Filters with the new "Copy from" feature

August 17, 2015, 4:32 am

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Surely you should have discovered Rules and Filtered feeds by now. If you haven't, you are missing on a whole lot of fun with automation and productivity boost.

Today we are making those two features even better with the addition of one little, but powerful tool. You can now quickly create new Rules by copying the conditions and actions from other Rules. See the following screenshot for an example:

You can do the same with Filtered feeds too.

We hope this change will ease your rule-creating process when you need to have the same carefully-crafted conditions applied to a different set of feeds or folders.

As always if you have ideas or suggestions, we'd love to hear you in the comments below.

Start your free trial of Inoreader Pro!

August 26, 2015, 6:00 am

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If you’re a Basic user of Inoreader, the thought of upgrading has probably crossed your mind at least once or twice. Although we strive to make our main features accessible for all users to try, we realize the many benefits of upgrading are still not readily visible to everyone. This is why now you can request a 30-day free trial and test all the freedom a Professional account will give you.

The trial option is something we had in our roadmap for quite some time and we’re happy to finally introduce it to users. It’s important for us to not only give you flexible plans, but also to let you try the full capacity of Inoreader and decide for yourself before paying a dime. We believe trials will be useful for many new and existing users and we’ve made the process of starting one as obstacle-free as possible - we don’t require any payment details before starting your trial. Just click a couple of buttons and you’re all set!

To start your trial, just click the Upgrade button in your account or go straight to inoreader.com/upgrade:

You will see the trial option in the top right corner of the page - click the button and you’re ready to go.

You can always check the date when your trial expires from Preferences - Billing & Usage.

We will also send you an email reminder when your trial is about to finish, so you have time to upgrade to your prefered account type. If you’ve made your decision earlier, don’t worry - you can switch to the plan you’ve chosen and the remaining trial days will automatically be added to your account.

Please, note that if you are currently using a paid Inoreader account, you will not see the trial option on the upgrade page and won’t be able to start one.

So, are you going to try a Pro trial? As always, please, share your feedback in the comments!

Open background tabs in Firefox

September 8, 2015, 7:03 am

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So far only our users with Chrome have been able to revel in the glory of the B shortcut - that helpful ally that lets you open items from Inoreader in a background tab, thus letting you still focus on the reading experience, while keeping webpages you want to visit later.

It's not like we prefer one browser over the next - and with the latest release of our Firefox extension, you can now use the B shortcut in Firefox, too.

You will have to add the Inoreader Companion for Firefox or, if it's already installed, you'll have to upgrade to the newest version, 1.25. Once you have installed the extension, you will have to close any open Inoreader tabs you have and open Inoreader again. If you don't have the extension installed, you'll see the following message when pressing B:

When the new Firefox extension is installed, you'll be able to open any item you're currently viewing in Inoreader in a background tab. Based on previous comments, this will be of great help for Firefox users. What do you think?

Inoreader Basic - now with fewer ads

October 16, 2015, 3:12 am

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Users with Basic accounts will probably notice that they are now seeing fewer ads in Inoreader. We’ve taken into account your feedback and drastically reduced the amount of ads you’ll chance upon while using the web platform - in order to both make the user experience better and increase performance.

Starting now, we will not be serving ads in article content on our web platform and we’ve reduced ads in third-party clients by almost 70%. This means you’ll be able to enjoy distraction-free reading and dive into your content with more focus.

Ads are still an important part of making Inoreader sustainable and together with your help we’re trying to find the optimal way of doing this while limiting ads to a sane level. We will try and identify positions that cause reading friction or do not serve their purpose well and eliminate them.

Thanks to all supporting Inoreader by either recommending us to their friends, going for a paid plan or coming back each day and making the community more vibrant!

Stay on top of the news with Inoreader and Google News

October 26, 2015, 7:38 am

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Google News is one of the indispensable ways to keep up with the latest developments of your industry, the affairs of your home country or the announcements of your favorite brands. Now you can follow Google News with just a couple of clicks - completely free, like most other search types in Inoreader!

Let’s say you want to track news around Coca-Cola. You just have to type in the brand’s name in the Search or subscribe bar and choose the Google News option from the drop-down menu:

If you were too quick to push Return/Enter, you can also choose the Google News option from the top horizontal set of search results.

You’re then able to subscribe to your search and see the latest results in your Inoreader.

Google News feeds act like any of your other feeds in Inoreader - you can filter them, apply rules, tag and star pieces, organize feeds in folders. Searching in Google News gives you a great free alternative to spending time going through the sites of major publications.

Google Alerts

That's a good place to remind you about another useful Google service - Google Alerts. With RSS feeds, you can get the Alerts results in Inoreader. See what people are saying about your brand right as soon as Google catches the mention. Just go to Google Alerts and configure an RSS feed for your search:

Then click on the RSS icon, copy the URL and paste it in Inoreader. 

And done - you have a working alerts feed in your account. You’ll be all up to date with the new topic mentions.

What news are you interested in? Do you rely on Google News to follow them?

Proofy - a new app from the Inoreader team

October 28, 2015, 7:58 am

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You may have guessed by now – our team is involved in many different projects beside Inoreader. But this is the first time we want to share one of our new apps with you. Prepare to meet Proofy!

As we all know, the Internet is a place where lots of fake pictures circulate, so you sometimes raise suspicions even if your photos are real – it’s not you, the whole Internet has a trust problem. We created Proofy so you can once and for all convince those around you that your stories are true and your photos are genuine.

Proofy is a free app for iOS and Android smartphones that verifies user’s photos and proves the exact time when a picture was taken. Verifying a picture with Proofy is easy - users just need to install the app, snap a picture with it and wait a few seconds for the photo to pass the verification process.

Proofy verifies the photos the moment they’re created, as it is most reliable to check the shot right at the source. The app algorithm stores the photo certificate and when the user decides to share their picture, the shot is checked against the original information. If all is fine, the photo is uploaded to the website getproofy.com with a unique URL for future reference. In this way the picture can easily be viewed by anyone the author decides to share it with.

Check out Proofy here.

We started developing the app with only a couple of use cases in mind, but gradually we found more and more ways that Proofy can help people tell their stories. You can document an important event or accident, brag about meeting a celebrity, show that a task was completed on time. Proofy can be of service to citizen journalists or help with proofs to insurance companies.

Proofy is completely free and it’s available on the App Store and Google Play– check it out and tell us what you think! If you're interested in covering the news about Proofy, you'll find more in our press kit.

9 cool Recipes to automate for success with Inoreader and IFTTT

November 4, 2015, 3:55 am

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Some time has passed since we announced the Inoreader channel on IFTTT and we’ve seen some great Recipes for automating content discovery, organization and sharing. It has been instrumental to learn from some 4000 users who are relying on IFTTT and Inoreader for their day-to-day information needs.

With over 7000 Recipes and close to 4 million Recipe runs, we’re already seeing the types of actions users find the most handy - if you’re still not using IFTTT to its full potential, here’s a couple of ideas worth considering. Don’t worry - the IFTTT integration is available to all Inoreader users and it’s free.

Keep important articles at hand

It’s always frustrating to remember an article you read some time back and not be able to find it. We’ve all spent time in futile Google searches for posts read (and forgotten) a long time ago. Now you can keep important articles with a single click.
You can use a Recipe to pass every article you star in Inoreader to Pocket if you stumble upon something interesting that you can’t look at right on the spot. This is a great way to have an article marked in two places, both Inoreader and Pocket, and use one of the two as a dynamic reading list and the other as an article archive.
You can also keep track of really interesting pieces by sending starred articles to Evernote - this ensures that even if the source article changes, you’ll have your personal copy to look into.

Get content from other media

We spend much time online in a fragmented environment and often remembering what we wanted to get back to later is just as equally daunting as actually finding the time to do the task. But getting all content in one place will save you time and boost your productivity.
Our users use a Recipe to get videos marked as “watch later” on YouTube in Inoreader (and you can also do the same thing with Vimeo). In that way you can add some video watching in your daily content schedule.
There’s lots of content you can get into Inoreader. Some users want to have their personal blog posts as saved pages - this Recipe will make sure you have every new blog post saved in your Inoreader.

Promote interesting articles

Ever had the feeling that you want to send an interesting story to all your friends? And then completely forgot about it? Yeah, that happens. The good thing is with the power of social media you can spread cool stories faster. The bad thing is if you’re active on social media, you’ll have to get the post out on each and every channel. Well, you can use a Recipe to share articles you broadcast on Inoreader to many different social media - our Twitter Recipe is the most popular, and you can find similar ones for Facebook, LinkedIn and other networks.

Organize and declutter

If you’re a news junkie and you have lots of news sources in your Inoreader, you’ll appreciate the Do button that can make yesterday’s news go away. Just get the button and you’ll be able to leave only the freshest content in your Inoreader without all the unread count clutter we’ve come to know and hate.
And if you want to keep track of all your subscriptions you can automatically mark them down in a Google Drive spreadsheet. Then you’ll be able to always keep track of interesting content sources even if you unsubscribe from them at one time or another.



If you’re a fan of IFTTT, share with us your favorite Recipes. If you’re new to the service, try it out now - here are some Recipes we’ve shared to inspire you.

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An upgraded and faster search

November 13, 2015, 6:31 am

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Search is one of the fundamental features users turn to Inoreader for. No matter if we’re talking about free search in all your articles or the much more full and powerful Global Search for all public articles, we know our users rely on search to look for important information or find new one. And we want to make search as helpful as it can be for everyone.

However, this is no easy feat if you’re looking at some 7 billion articles already in our database and some 10 million new ones that are indexed each day. A couple of months back we migrated our search index from Sphinx to Elasticsearch in order to ensure richer and more tailored results. And now we have upgraded the hardware for our search databases in order to make search even faster.

We have seriously invested in the hardware upgrade to speed up search and we’re already seeing tremendous effects - the average search time has gone down to about 1 second! Here’s what this looks like:

Jump to your Inoreader account, see the new fast search in action and let us know what you think!

Automatic OPML backups

November 22, 2015, 11:19 pm

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Every now and then you can stumble upon a situation where you want to restore your subscriptions because of some error. In such cases the first question is "When was the last time I made a backup of my OPML file?". We are now making this question obsolete. As soon as you have a Plus or a Professional account, Inoreader starts to automatically backup your OPML file whenever there is a change to your subscriptions or folders. We will keep your last 10 backups even if they are months or years old. You can access them by going to Preferences -> Import/Export and download each file from the provided link:

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Dropbox Integration

November 24, 2015, 11:24 pm

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No matter if it is your favorite bacon recipes, game reviews or the latest gadget news, you will always want some article to be available on PDF, because ...well PDF is great! And so is Dropbox!

Now you can link your Inoreader and Dropbox accounts together and save your favorite pieces of content with a single click of your mouse or a tap of your finger. They'll be saved as neat PDF files in your Dropbox account and synchronized across all of your devices.

To get started first connect your Dropbox account from Preferences -> Integration:

When this is done, you will see a Dropbox icon under each article. Just click it and voilà! Your article is saved as a PDF in your Dropbox:

More advanced users will be happy to know that we thought about automation too - you can use rules to automatically Dropbox articles that match a certain criteria.

You can of course save articles from our mobile apps too via our quick "Save To" menu:

Dropbox integration is available right now for all Inoreader users!

And that's not everything! 

Earlier this week, we announced automatic OPML backups for Plus and Professional users. Now when you connect your Dropbox account we will automatically save your OPML files to your Dropbox, so you know your subscriptions are always kept in a safe place.

Do you like Dropbox? Do you think the new integration will be useful to you? Share your thoughts in the comments below.


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Enhancements to Twitter feeds

December 10, 2015, 6:04 am

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When we launched Twitter feeds last year, we were focused on bringing you the essence of each tweet’s contents. That way you could follow updates across the world as they happened, set up rules to notify you for something really important, or organize everything in tags.
Since then Twitter implemented a lot of changes and new features.
In the past week we were gradually upgrading our integration to support those new features. Thanks to the continuous feedback from our community we were able to iterate quickly and today we are proud to present you the list of upgrades!

Multiple images

We are now displaying all images embedded in a Tweet. Click on any image to see it full-size.

Video and GIF support

You can now watch embedded videos and GIF files directly in Inoreader. Moreover, you can use the rule condition "contains video" to find such tweets.

Quotes

Embedded quotes are now shown directly in Inoreader.

Better retweets

We've enhanced the presentation of retweets. The author's name and avatar are those from the original tweet and the actual tweet is embedded as a quote.

Other smaller tweaks

We've also made a number of smaller enhancements to the Twitter feeds. Here's the list:

• Line breaks in tweets and quotes are now correctly displayed
• Long retweets are no longer being occasionally truncated
• Embedded images are now smaller, but when clicked they open the full resolution picture.
• When pasting a Twitter URL in our search box, you will be immediately prompted to connect your Twitter account if you haven't done so already.
• Fixed some issues with links to hashtags containing umlauts.

We hope those changes will improve your experience with Twitter feeds even more. Our team uses this feature a lot while searching for information and to stay up to date with trends in our area.

Twitter feeds are available for all users, but with certain limitation depending on your plan. Learn more from our upgrade page.

If you want to learn how to use Twitter feeds see our How-to post about subscribing to social feeds.

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The Inoreader team

Reach older articles more easily

December 14, 2015, 5:44 am

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One of the core benefits of using Inoreader instead of social networks for following content is that it always keeps track of what you read, so you don't see the same stories again. They are always there for you if you need to access them later, but you need to switch off the unread filter to reach them (or use search) and then remember to turn it on again.
This flow is not very optimal and we thought a lot about how to optimize it, without breaking away from our minimalistic approach. Here's what we came up with:

When you scroll down past your unread articles, you still see the well-known minimalistic "No more articles here." screen. The difference is that now there's a new "Older articles" button. When pressed it loads the previously read articles in this section without turning off your unread filter. This one bit is very important because now you don't need to remember to turn it on again later. We do it automatically for you.

We at Inoreader believe that small things can make a big difference. If you have any suggestion or issue using our service, you can always get in touch and we will happily get back to you.

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The Inoreader team