
One of the things Google Reader was good at was keeping track of what you’ve read and what you haven’t. Third, consider setting up email notifications for your most important RSS feeds. I’ve also found Skimr useful, although it’s pretty bare-bones, and works better if you’ve got just a handful of subscriptions than it does for massive collections of RSS feeds like the 600+ I have in my files.Ĭheck out some other Google Reader alternatives in our March post. Other free, web-based newsreaders you might consider are NetVibes and NewsBlur.

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It offers a “one-click Google Reader import” button that will import your Google Reader subscriptions without even requiring the archive file you created above. Feedly has proven to be one of the most popular of the pre-post-Google Reader era, and it’s likely to stick around for awhile, especially since Reader’s demise helped Feedly triple its user base in just three months. Second, find a good RSS newsreader alternative. The most important file in that archive is a file called subscriptions.xml, which is an OPML file you can import into other news readers to recreate your subscriptions list. Then choose the services you want to export, select Reader, and click the “Create Archive” button to download a. You’ll need to re-authenticate with Google. Click on the option to export your subscriptions via Google Takeout.

Go to Reader Settings (the gear icon in the upper right of the Reader screen), then click on the Import/Export tab.

If you’re a Google Reader user, here’s what you need to do.įirst, make a backup of your RSS subscriptions.
