Comments on: Google Reader Offline: Smart Yet Dumb

By: Will H

Will H — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:54:22 +0000

I can’t believe this still isn’t fixed…

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By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:15:38 +0000

Corvida, here are the Reader Offline instructions:
http://www.google.com/support/reader/bin/topic.py?topic=12013

By: Corvida

Corvida — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:10:30 +0000

Oh wow. I didn’t realize you could take your feeds offline and synchronize WITH GReader to a certain extent! Mind informing me of how I can accomplish this?

Great post. Be sure to email the GReader time if you haven’t already, with this post included. Maybe something will happen?

Zentrice with Gmail is my email.

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:35:52 +0000

“instead of assuming its rocket scientists have an algorithm for working out what’s best for us” – especially since those rocket scientists live in al always-connected environment…

By: Phil Wainewright

Phil Wainewright — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:26:57 +0000

I always go to the bottom and read in chronological order, which avoids that problem. But sometimes I’ll go in just to do a quick check of the latest postings and it’s annoying not to be able to simply flag the items I’ve scanned, as I then have to duplicate that work on a later visit.

Of course what this flags up is that Google should incorporate a Salesforce Ideas-style feedback mechanism for suggesting and voting on enhancements into its GReader home page – instead of assuming its rocket scientists have an algorithm for working out what’s best for us

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:33:14 +0000

Exactly, Phil. Or perhaps mark a selection (manual, or up the point where I am from top) as read.

Another problem I noticed with reading in a single sitting is that while I am scanning the long list and get into the detail of some, Reader updates itself, gets new items ABOVE where I am in the list, and there’s no way to tell where the new ones are. Either I lose my ‘work’ of picking from the list, or lose the new entry:-(

By: Phil Wainewright

Phil Wainewright — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:28:40 +0000

Too right, this is by far GReader’s biggest flaw.

In fact, the reason I only just saw this post is because I’ve been catching up after a trip and the consequent large swathes of time when I simply can’t use GReader. I use List View exactly the way you describe, and this functionality gap is a huge frustration.

What would be ideal would be the ability to toggle individual posts between read/unread status. ‘Cos the other problem is that once you’ve amassed 100 or more posts, you then have to schedule a single sitting to go through them all and then ‘mark all as read’.

By: Dharmesh Shah

Dharmesh Shah — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:47:22 +0000

You are not the only one that finds this frustrating. I’m in your camp.

Particularly irritating given that it seems to be a relatively easy thing to do (once you’ve already got offline access enabled).