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News!! How To Construct A Novel Category / Folder Inward Your The Onetime Reader Subscriptions List

This article explains how to build novel categories for listing inwards add-on to organizing feeds inwards The Old Reader.



Recently I migrated from Google Reader to The Old Reader, inwards readiness for Google Reader's upcoming retirement.

(If you're non certainly why I bothered, yous mightiness like this simple explanation of RSS inwards add-on to why it matters for Bloggers, inwards especial ones who wishing to enquiry things).

I used Google Takeout to migrate my existing subscriptions from Reader to The Old Reader. (And yes, I did carefully file that exported file away, merely inwards example I wishing to migrate to exactly about other service.)

Because my subscriptions inwards Google Reader were organized into categories, these categories were automagically imported into my The Old Reader account.

But today I wanted to alter my categories - inwards add-on to it wasn't obvious how to practice this from either my settings or profile.


How to build a novel category AKA folder inwards your The Old Reader subscriptions list

To add together together a novel grouping to the subscriptions inwards a The Old Reader account:
  • Click i feed that yous would like to human activity to into the novel category - inwards add-on to hold it down.
  • Drag it to the empty interplanetary space below your concluding folder, inwards add-on to drib it into place.  
    Note:   every bit yous practice this, the words "NEW FOLDER" appear at the bottom of the listing of categories.

To human activity other items from your existing subscriptions into the novel category, merely drag-and-drop them too.



How to rename your novel folder

To alter the refer of a folder/category inwards The Old Reader:
  • Double-click on the existing refer - this makes the refer opened upwards for editing.
  • Type the novel name, inwards add-on to press Enter to relieve it.




How to alter the monastic enjoin of your categories

You forcefulness out re-organize your folders - but only i at a time.
  • Click the folder that yous wishing to move, inwards add-on to hold.
  • Drag-and-drop it into the novel place.


Putting feed-items into multiple categories?

For the moment, this is not possible: each item that yous subscribe to inwards The Old Reader forcefulness out only alive on inwards i folder.




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