tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592963471313037101.post3176954906573148959..comments2023-05-26T15:01:53.232+00:00Comments on Peccavi: Six things I'd like to see in Google Reader.Joe Mansfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07059738053649361313noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592963471313037101.post-72045350762307706772007-01-24T15:29:00.000+00:002007-01-24T15:29:00.000+00:00[16] Be more accurate with the counts. The 100+ i...[16] Be more accurate with the counts. The 100+ is nice but not helpful when you have 1000+ unread. Round counts to nearest 100 if they exceed 100.<br /><br />[17] Make my Gmail atom link read properly in Reader. It should be embarrassing that it doesn't work.Ithiadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15970447456230934062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592963471313037101.post-23991161867230026122007-01-24T00:39:00.000+00:002007-01-24T00:39:00.000+00:00[15] Add to calendar link like in Gmail.[15] Add to calendar link like in Gmail.Ithiadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15970447456230934062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592963471313037101.post-67378763869480334622007-01-23T13:54:00.000+00:002007-01-23T13:54:00.000+00:00[7] I seem to lose unread items after about two we...[7] I seem to lose unread items after about two weeks or so. They're still marked unread, though, and you can find them if you scroll far enough through the all items view of a feed. But they don't count in the unread items count or appear in the show only new view. The best effort at finding them is probably with this link:<br />http://www.google.com/reader/view/user/-/state/com.google/kept-unread<br />But you can't manipulate the read status of the items from there which makes it extra annoying.<br /><br />[8] 'better contact managers in my Windows Smartphones' is damning.<br /><br />[12] There's been some sort of unreleased API around for about a year. It's not properly documented or, I think, really useful enough.<br /><br />[13] This could be done easily enough outside Reader. I can almost see it now... you want to subscribe to a McSweeney's RSS, you point yourself at DaithiIsGod.com/www.mcsweeneys.net/daily.xml<br />Could build the initial feed out of the current page, the google cache and the wayback machine. The properly interesting part is doing a DOMmy diff that's not stupid and removing the advertising and junk. Prehaps the person subscribing to the feed could be used to indicate the interesting content as part of the initial subscription process.<br /><br />Then we stick our AdSense into the feed and watch the money roll in before we are sued.Ithiadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15970447456230934062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592963471313037101.post-44440422241094476542007-01-22T23:31:00.000+00:002007-01-22T23:31:00.000+00:00Good points.
[7] When do old unreads get flagged ...Good points. <br />[7] When do old unreads get flagged for removal? I haven't noticed it (yet) but I don't keep much unread - I clear everything out when I've read enough.<br /><br />[8] As far as the contact manager comment is concerned I think you're right that they really do need to up the standard there - I have better contact managers in my Windows Smartphones. The new <a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/12/google-video-contact-manager.html"> contact manager buried in Google Video </a> might do the trick but my recall of that is that it was incomplete and it's been disabled since GOS put it up.<br /><br />[11] I think that would be resolved by my "search and do something" suggestion but as a matter of course that should apply to any aggregated view. The confusion on the role of tags causes this IMO - if that was clear this would not be a problem.<br /><br />[12] Releasing the API is a no brainer but being still stuck in Google Labs terrain probably keeps that from happening for now. I must peruse the discussion group too though.<br /><br />[13] That's an interesting idea - ideal for infrequently refreshed sites too, the sort that tend to get "forgotten" but are still worthwhile. <br /><br />[14] Editable CSS for the shared page is a major failing and I'm annoyed that I missed that as the locked in formatting really does bug me.Joe Mansfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07059738053649361313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592963471313037101.post-14526685697221089462007-01-22T15:52:00.000+00:002007-01-22T15:52:00.000+00:00[7] I'd like Reader not to drop old unread items. ...[7] I'd like Reader not to drop old unread items. So I like to mark stuff unread that I want to think about later and then don't do this thinking until months later. I know I'm a bad person. But it isn't like losing old marked unread items is anything but very poor.<br /><br />[8] I love the roll pane. I'll even suffer [7] for a while for the toilet roll interface. EverNote does the same. So buy EverNote and mash it with Reader and Gmail. Then write a rollodex contact manager in place of the brain deformed thing that's there. It's all personal information management. Put it in the same interface.<br /><br />[9] I browse some tags in list view and just know I won't read some of the stories. Let me mark them read directly from the line instead of having to expand the item. I don't want to read it but I still get to scan it before I can mark it read? Dumb.<br /><br />[10] The option to automatically read items as you roll over them is good. Put the check box on the main page instead of deep in the settings so I can race over my newspaper feeds and then take time with my music links.<br /><br />[11] Let me expand the starred items by tag. Or no better... yeah, let me search properly.<br /><br />[12] Release the API. It's annoying to watch the pain on the discussion board.<br /><br />[13] Automatically generate feeds for pages that don't have them. Well, I mean diff against the last google cache when the page is reindexed, tidy a little and send to an RSS feed.Ithiadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15970447456230934062noreply@blogger.com