Google reader mode Offline#

Google News lets you download a whole topic’s worth of stories for offline reading. If you miss any, check your notification history in Activity by tapping your user icon. You can also turn on daily briefing alerts and breaking news. When I slid the bar down to low, I got only a couple each day. Generally, the standard setting will send five to seven per day, while high could be as many as a dozen. You can also adjust the frequency of notifications from low to standard to high, with a couple of steps in between. If you only want stories about the sources and topics your follow, turn off all toggles except Your interests. Google News notifications don’t have to be a bother. Inside the app’s settings you can customize your alerts so you’re not peppered with stories all day long.

The more you use these buttons the more Google News will filter out the content you don’t want.īecause you don’t always have time to check Google News diligently throughout the day, it can send you updates on breaking news, popular topics, and your interests. Inside the overflow menu below every story you’ll see options for “More stories like this” and “Fewer stories like this,” as well as “Hide stories” from the source it’s coming from.

Think of the The For You section like a Pandora station for news: It’ll show you articles related to things you like, and the more you use it the more personal it’ll get. Google Reader was great for organizing, but it wasn’t so good at discovering new sources of information. You can rank sources in Google News or hide them altogether. Saving for later is a great way to make sure you remember them. Because Google News is always chronological and there’s no ‘read’ or ‘unread’ markings, it can be hard to keep track of every story you want to read. If you just want to save it for your own use, you can tap the bookmark icon and it’ll be added to your article list on your Favorites page. On the web you can copy the link or send it to Google+, Facebook, or Twitter. Tap Share to send it to an app or a contact, or copy the link inside the app. Next to each story you’ll see an overflow menu at the far right (or a hover menu on the web) that contains links for sharing and saving. The share sheet and save tab in Google News will help you spread and organize the stories you love. Because saved topics and sources are synced across all of your devices and the web, you’ll be able to keep track of stories from your phone, iPad, or PC. You can also search for specific article URLs. Topics will appear on your Favorites page just like sources. Just like with sources, you can follow as many topics as you’d like, and Google News will aggregate all the news about it that it can find. If you want to search a topic rather than a source, such as Google or iPhone, you can opt to save those for future reference as well.

There’s no limit on the number of sources you can follow, so go crazy. Any source you follow will then appear as a publication on your favorites page, which will display a chronological feed of everything that site has published. If you’re looking for a specific source (like PCWorld, for instance), you can type that query into the search field and tap the Follow button that appears next to it.

Google reader mode full#

The search field is the key to unlocking Google News’s full potential. Tap it without typing and you’ll see a list of suggested topics and sources. You can find it in the top corner of every screen (or at the top of the webpage). To do that you’ll need to get friendly with the search bar.

Like Google Reader, Google News works best when you tell it what you like. For example, you can tap the colored News icon below a story to can see the full coverage page, or tap the weather icon to get a seven-day forecast. Lots of cool menus and actions in Google News make it more than just a simple news aggregator. Google News looks a lot different with the latest update, but it shouldn’t be too hard to get acclimated.īeyond the tabs, when you tap your user icon in the top right corner of the app, you can see your notification history and sharing activity, and also find settings.