Nick Bradbury has released the 2.0 beta for FeedDemon. There are a bunch of new features, but my favourite, the one I’ve been waiting for, is the new tree structure for the folders list (think the folders list in Windows Explorer).  This means no more switching between folders, I can have multiple, or in fact all of my folders open at once, showing what’s new and what isn’t.  By default FeedDemon 2.0 is set to auto-collapse folders as you expand a new one which, for me at least, defeats the purpose of the exercise.  So to turn this off go to ‘Tools’ -> ‘Options’ -> ‘Reading’ and untick ‘automatically collapse folders’ then click ‘OK’.

Clicking on the top of the subscriptions tree also gives you a nice list of all feeds with unread items, and a collation of your most and least visited feeds.  The only thing that I can see that’s missing is the ‘blog this item’ tool, which automatically send the contents of a news item to your blog post window.  This was handy, but maybe it’s just turned off in the options & I’m not seeing it.

Anyway, I’m pretty darn happy with this new version, the speed especially is great, it switches between feeds almost instantly. As always, great work Nick!

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