DaisyFeed

Overview

This RSS feed reader and organizer allows you to follow blog posts, articles, or news stories easily and efficiently in a single application. You can display your most frequently read feeds on your Favorites screen or catalog them by category. At the tap of a button, you can view the AideRSS PostRank of your feed to determine the relevance and community reaction to the articles. This full featured application is extremely easy to use and setup and best of all, it’s free!

Features

  • Use the favorites list for easy viewing of your top picks.
  • Catalog all your feeds in user-defined categories.
  • Use AideRSS PostRank to read only the most relevant articles.
  • Quickly identify the number of unread articles from your Favorites list.
  • User-configurable application behaviors.
  • Quick “Mark All As Read” or “Delete All” functionality.
  • Intuitive AutoDiscovery feature to eliminate remembering or entering lengthy feed URLs.
  • Supports RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, and Atom 1.0.
  • Offline viewing of downloaded feeds.
  • One touch email integration.
  • Internal Safari quick-launch to view the full story.

Favorites

Provides a quick and easy screen for checking your favorite feeds.

  • If the indicator at the right side of the table row is red, the feed is more than a 30 minutes old.
  • Simply click the refresh button in the top left corner to fetch the latest entries.

Categories

Use the categories screen to create groupings of feeds (i.e. News, Sports, Technology, etc).

  • To add or delete categories, just click the [EDIT] button in the upper right corner.
  • NOTE: If you delete a category, it will delete all the feeds and entries associated with the category, so use it wisely!

Channels

Add a channel (feed) to your database by manually following these easy steps..

  • Create or choose a category.
  • Tap the row in the categories table (make sure you’re no longer in Edit mode).
  • On the Channels screen, tap [EDIT].
  • Click the [+] indicator on the last row in your channels table.
  • Enter all the necessary information.
  • If you want this feed to appear on your Favorites list, simply flip the toggle.

Entries

When you select a feed, DaisyFeed opens a table listing of all the new and archived entries from this feed.You can open the handy toolbar for more advanced features.

  • Use the [Refresh] button to get the latest entries for a feed.
  • Use the [PR] to update or show the current rankings of the entries on this feed.  For more information, visit on PostRank.
  • Use the [CheckMark] button to mark all entries on this feed as read.
  • Use the [trashCan] button to delete all entries on this feed. DaisyFeed stores the date of this action and will only download new feeds after this date-time.

AutoDiscovery

Using AutoDiscovery is the simplest mechanism for adding feeds to you database.

Here’s a shot of the AutoDiscovery page:

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To use the AutoDiscovery feature,

  1. Simply enter the URL in the search bar and tap GO. (example: For Silent PC Review, simply enter “silentpcreview.com”.  No need to enter feed directory or xml file–just the page url will suffice)
  2. DaisyFeed will prompt you with the number of feeds it located on the page, and offer to add them to your database.

Feeds added using AutoDiscovery are automatically added to a category named AutoDiscovery.  Now it’s a simple matter of reassigning these new feeds to more appropriate categories!

Settings

DaisyFeed automatically adds a section to your iPhone application settings.

Navigate to System settings application on you iPhone and choose the DaisyFeed entry.  Inside you will find several useful settings to help you personalize your copy of DaisyFeed.

  1. ImageBackgrounds (Default:ON) - if this is set to no, DaisyFeed renders its tables with no background images.
  2. FontSize - tweak the slider to adjust the font size in the contents of your feed entries.
  3. AutoUpdate (Default: OFF) - with this on, DaisyFeed will automatically fetch the latest entries for all feeds in a given category.
  4. Show PostRank (Default OFF) - displays the AideRSS PostRank of the given feed entries (not just when you request the PostRank).
  5. Erase all - if you flip this toggle, the next time you open DaisyFeed, it will automatically revert your database to the way it shipped, thus deleting anything you added since you first downloaded the application.
  6. Erase listings - if you flip this toggle to YES, the next time you open DaisyFeed it will automatically delete all entries for all feeds in your database. The next time you refresh, you will get the entries that are currently available on the feed. This is nice to have to clean up all old entries with one simple switch.