Putting my previous post to practice, I’m now a new Newzie user.
So far (caveat, this is only day one) I am really liking both the functionality and the user interface. As further described in my companion blog, I tried to warm-up to the market leaders, Google Reader and Bloglines…but I just couldn’t get myself there and decided to stay with a client (versus web service) application.
Before now, my only feed reader has been Liferea and although very basic, I thought I was pretty attached — I was almost grieving having to give it up as I turn in my former work machine tomorrow, especially as it initially felt like I was going to be going backwards in efficiency.
Ah, but check out the new friend:
Not only is he/she a looker, I’m already finding an immediate efficiency gain.
7 May update: Day two and finding some challenges with the new friend…
- Newzie doesn’t launch external browser window when clicking on a ‘permalink’ for a particular post. At first I thought this was nice to not be bouncing over to Firefox; however, I now see it disrupts my pattern of del.icio.us tagging posts (via the Firefox plug-in) that I really believe I will want to come back to. And, I’m even stronger on this pattern than before now that I see the pain of loosing flagged posts with a change in feed reader. Wish-list: a del.icio.us button within Newzie.
- Search doesn’t handle ‘exact phrase’ properly
Feedback sent to Newzie.
18 May Update: I’ve now moved on to BlogBridge and uninstalled Newzie. Details. Â
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