NewsGator Inbox Options – Add Subscriptions (Vol. 2)

One of the other tools that can be found within the Add Subscriptions Tool is the Browse Recommended Feeds button. This works very much like the Recommended Feeds in the online version. Basically it will display a list of category folders like “News”. You can then either check the folder box thus subscribing to everything inside or you can click the plus sign to expand it out and simply select the feeds that you want to subscribe to. So I chose CNN.com from the list, then selected “Next”. It then asks if you want to keep the folder structure of the selected feeds. If you say yes then it will add the folder that was in the Recommended Feeds to your folder tree. So for instance if I would have chosen a feed from the Blogs & Bloggers Recommended feeds and selected Yes when it asked if I wanted to keep the folder structure then it would add a new folder to my folder tree called Blogs & Bloggers. One thing to note if you already have a folder with the same name it just adds the feed to that folder. So since I already had a News folder the feed from CNN.com was simply added to it rather then creating a new folder called News.

If I were to choose NO when it asked to keep the folder structure, then it would open the same window as when you are adding the feed from a URL (as we saw in the last post) and asks where you want the feed to go. You simply assign it as we did before and it will be added into the folder you selected. Also with each feed that you add you have the option to launch the Subscription Settings tool that I described in the previous post so that you can customize each feed. That being said if you choose more then one feed to add then you will update the settings for all of the feeds that you have chosen at the same time. I will get into how you can edit a feed after it is created in a future post when I review the Manage Subscriptions tool.

Next time I will complete the Add Subscriptions section with the Advanced Button. If you like what you see let me know, if not let me know that too. I want this to be useful so I am looking for feedback!