RTR was conceived a week ago.. born yesterday.
Hang in there
To all of you early adopters, hang in there as we work through the kinks. Red Tree Reader was only born a week ago.
Several stability issues have been addressed today – as well as some other bugs.
We also pushed out a mobile interface update this morning, so you can now use RTR on your phone and tablets.
Cheers!
-Nick
How to get started
The first thing you’ll want to do is click the ‘Add Subscriptions’ dropdown in the top left corner to import your subscriptions.
Once the import is complete, the interface should be familiar if coming over from Google Reader.
Keyboard shortcuts
Currently a subset of the keyboard shortcuts found on Google Reader have been implemented.
j/k – next/previous item
s – star/unstar item
m – mark item as unread
space – scroll down 1 page
Change is bad, change is scary… read on.
Red Tree Reader was created by Red Tree Labs. It was created in about a week, and designed to as closely mimic Google Reader as possible. Damn near same UI, same keyboard shortcuts (at least the ones implemented), etc.
Nobody likes change, because change causes unnecessary stress and discomfort. I didn’t want a newer, more feature-full, next generation reader. That’s why I use (used) Google Reader, and I bet it’s the same for you.
RTR provides a subset of the Google Reader functionality (the core functionality that makes it a snap to consume way too many feeds, daily). This includes things like folders, starring, keep unread and so on.
Right now RTR does not include things like search, recommendations, feed browsing and some of the other features that Google Reader provided that don’t directly help you in consuming your subscriptions.
The mobile version is being whipped together just as fast as this desktop version.
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