Reading Your Feed

The reader is three columns: the sidebar you navigate with, the list of what is in the current view, and the article itself. On a wide screen you can drag the dividers between them; the assistant opens as a fourth column rather than covering the article you were reading.

Everything below is about the middle and right columns — what a click does, and what it does to your ranking.

The four things you can do to an article

Opening it, and three buttons that sit on every row and every open article.

	What it does	Weight in the ranking
Save	Keeps it in Saved	Strongest positive signal
Open and stay	Marks it read; the row goes grey	Second, if you stay past 30 seconds
Like	Keeps it in Liked	Third
Not interested	Removes it from the list	Negative, and heavy

Saving outranks liking, which is the opposite of the ordering every social product has trained you to expect. In a reader they mean different things: a like is a reaction, a save is I intend to come back to this — a claim on your own future attention, and the better predictor of what you want more of.

So there is no such thing here as a quiet bookmark. Saving is the loudest thing you can do.

Save and Like are toggles. Press again to undo, and the ranking forgets what it learned — the action row is deleted, not counterweighted. A statement you cannot retract is a trap.

Not interested is not a toggle, because the article leaves the list and there is no second click to make. It is the one action here worth a moment's thought.

Time spent is a signal too

Feedpik measures how long you actively stay on an open article, and an article you stay with past 30 seconds counts as engagement from that source. Idle time does not count — the clock only runs while the tab is visible and you have done something in the last fifteen seconds, so an article left open in a background tab teaches nothing.

It sits between save and like in weight, and the reasoning is worth stating: staying with something is costlier than tapping a heart, but it is inferred rather than stated, so it should never outrank you saying so outright. Nothing else about your reading is measured, and none of it leaves your account — it ranks your own feed, which is the only thing it is for.

Why there is no unread count

There used to be one. It said 1189.

At 158 articles a day arriving, an unread badge is not a task list — it is a count of what the world published, and no number in that range is something anyone is going to clear. The Unread view still exists and is genuinely useful for catching up on a specific source. What was removed is the guilt attached to a number, because a ranked reader's whole claim is that you do not have to empty an inbox.

For the same reason there is no "mark all read". Nothing accumulates against you.

Articles and podcasts are separate lists

The tabs at the top of the list column switch between them, and they never mix. An item counts as a podcast when the feed shipped an audio file with it, so this splits by what the source published rather than by what you filed it under.

An episode gets a player above its shownotes, with whatever your browser gives you — play, scrub, volume, and an Open audio link if you would rather take the file to something else. It is a plain player and does not remember where you stopped.

What sits on top of an open article

Summarize, Explain, Translate. Three buttons at the top of the article, each answering in the language set by the dropdown beside them — so you can read an English source in Japanese without changing anything else. They cost credits: 1, 1 and 2 respectively, out of the monthly allowance every plan includes. See plans and AI credits.

Ask AI. Opens the assistant with this article already in context, so "what is the actual claim here" works without pasting anything. 2 credits a message.

Add to draft. Sends the article to a draft in the Drafts workspace, so a piece you are writing collects its sources as you read. Max plan.

Follow. The chip naming the source has a Follow button when you are not subscribed to it — which happens more than you would think, because Recommended tops up from Feedpik's whole pool, not only from your subscriptions. Nothing subscribes you on your behalf, so an article you liked from a source you have never heard of stays a one-off until you press it.

Full text, and when there is none

Feedpik shows what the feed carried. Publishers who ship full articles in their RSS give you the whole thing; publishers who ship an excerpt give you an excerpt, and no reader can conjure the rest.

When there is nothing to show you get one line saying so, and View original at the foot of every article opens the publisher's page in a new tab. The title is a link to the same place.

Search

The box at the top of the sidebar filters the list you are looking at. It matches on title, summary, source name, author, and the reasons the ranking gave for showing you something — so paywall finds articles about paywalls, and the name of a writer finds their pieces wherever they published them.

It searches what is loaded, not the archive. The list pages in as you scroll, so searching a view you just opened searches the first page of it. Scroll further and search again if you are hunting for something specific you know is older.

Folders and favourites

The Feeds tree at the bottom of the sidebar is your subscriptions, and clicking one narrows the list to it.

The ··· menu on each source has rename, move to a folder, favourite, and unsubscribe. Renaming is local to you — it does not change what anyone else sees, and it is the fix for a feed whose own title is RSS Feed or the site's tagline.

Favourites are not just a shortcut. Favouriting a source pins it to the top of the tree and gives that source a weight in your ranking, so it is a reading preference as much as an organisational one. Folders carry no ranking weight at all — they are yours to arrange.

The + beside the Feeds heading makes a folder. Sources not in one collect under a heading you can rename but not delete.

If something looks wrong

An article I opened is still in Unread — the read mark is sent when you open it and needs the round trip to land. If it persists, the list you are looking at was drawn before the mark; refresh.

Not interested removed something I wanted back — open the source from the Feeds tree. The article is hidden from ranked views, not deleted, and it is still in its source's own list.

Saved is empty but I have saved things — Saved and Liked belong to the persona that was active when you saved. Switch personas and the lists switch with them. See personas.

The article pane is blank on a phone — the three columns stack on narrow screens; the article opens over the list rather than beside it. Back returns you.

Podcasts tab is empty — nothing you subscribe to publishes audio, or the feeds you added ship it in a form ingest did not capture. Adding a show from its Apple Podcasts link is the most reliable route.