How to Boost Google Reader's Productivity
Hi this is Chris from Vitamin CM.com and today I’m going to show you how to use some Grease Monkey Scripts to make Google Reader a lot more productive. I have Google Reader open right now in upper web browser which does not allow you to use plug ins and extensions as Firefox does. So if you look at Google reader I can go through stories and I can do a number of things. I can save them, I can tag them, I can email them to people. Now if I switch over to Firefox you’ll see it looks pretty similar, there’s a couple of different things you notice there’s a few extra buttons and icons and things and when you talk about what they do in a moment.
If I jump back to Opera one of the things I wanted to talk about before we even get into Google reader I have a grease monkey script called auto add feed to Google reader and this allows you to streamline the process of subscribing to or assess bids in getting them into Google reader.
So I have a page open right now that has an RSS feed that’s Yahoo sports that made really baseball page. So let’s ask everyone to subscribe for this. I would click on the RSS icon and then a button would come up that would say subscribe and then it would ask me all different information about how I want it to subscribe things like that. So you get a point kind of annoying process with a lot of hard work. Well with the auto add feed to Google reader script I go on a Firefox and try and subscribe to Yahoo Major League Baseball page and click the RSS icon and you notice it thinks for second then it automatically adds the feed to Google reader and it opens up Google reader right to that feed.
So really nice and it take bunch of annoying little mouse looks out anytime I want to add a feed I just click the orange buttons say subscribe and it just adds all the work for me. So this is very handy. I want to take a look at a particular article to show you some of the really nice features that you can add to Google Reader with some of this Grease Monkey Scripts. So if you look at this particular article using Tweeter to get travel assistance and an emergency. So I think that’s pretty useful and I want to add two couple of things with that article.
So when I mean Opera I don’t really have any of this grease monkey scripts available to me. Now if I switch over to the exact same article in Google readers you’ll see have a couple of nice things. Often times I see an article and I want to bookmark it using delicious so I can always go back and look it up later. I have the Google reader plus delicious script added in so if I right click on the articles title it says bookmark this link in delicious. When I click on it, it logs me into delicious and it opens up the fields so I can put a note tags whatever and then I’ll just click save.
Now, if I flip over here to another window I have open where I’m logged in to delicious and I just see my recent bookmarks. If I refresh and tape Tweeter in, it will search through and there is the book mark I displayed using Tweeter to get travel assistance and then an emergency.
One of the other things I like to do when I’m reading my feeds, lots of times I just quickly check them at work and I’m working so I don’t have time to thoroughly read them so what I like to do is make it to do for me so that I can act on whatever is in this particular article later on at home when I have more time and I use say called remember the milk for a task management and the remember the milk cow in Google reader, puts this little icon next to each article title. When I click that, it opens up another window and remembers the milk and it gives me everything I need so it gives me, it says it’s a website and it gives it a title and sends it to my inbox, priority. I want to put a priority of three on it, two today, time estimate, one hour, tags, website so forth. I could put any other information on it and click add task.
And that leaves the little window open I can close it if I’d like or live it open. Now if I go back to this other window, you go to my remember the milk page and I’ll do a little refresh here so that I can get on my newest editions and you’ll notice here this new one that I add in the website using Tweeter to get travel assistance and an emergency and if I click on it you can see different information so the link. And now I can click on the link, it will open up a new tab with that article and I can read it.
When a lot of things I like to do is using Tweeter so if I click on my Tweeter page right now and refresh it then I go back to that Google reader article, If I scroll down to the bottom of this article and notice there’s a tweeter link here, if I click that, it just opens up a little field I can put tags in so I can put tips, it gives the url to the article there is — it uses tiny url where I can shrink that link down to a smaller link. I could type in any information I want so it puts the title in and then just click send and it’s going to ask me for my credentials, so my ID and password, click okay and that will send it now.
If I click back over here into that window and I’ll just refresh this Tweeter window you’ll notice that, that post I just sent goes right up to Tweeter and my most recent post. It has the url so anybody that wants to click it, it will open up the url and another page. So some pretty helpful things that you can do, another nice thing that’s in there if I wanted to see a preview of this article then it have and it go directly to the page and leave my feed reader. I can just click this preview link and it will show me what the article looks like on the website. Inside of a kind of little many Windows which is nice because sometimes you might think its something other than it really is and you look at the preview and say not and I really feel like spend that anytime there and just kind to keep planning along through other different articles.
So this is some of the tips where you can use Grease Monkey Scripts with Google reader to really enhance your product.
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