Subscribe or Just Read (Supported Content Sources).

The main advantage of Handy News Reader is the ability to subscribe various content sources. It may be a website with interesting articles, a blog with interesting posts – or so-called Google News. Whatever You choose, Handy will be checking if are there any new content published on those websites. If so, the app will download them for You and preserve for further (even off-line) reading.

Would You like to receive new articles or blog posts from an RSS-equipped website?

Go to sidebar › + › Add a custom feed or search for one › enter the URL address of an RSS feed (or just a website address if You don’t know the former) or just the keyword to browse a Feedly catalog of RSS websites › check “RSS” on the bottom and confirm by ✓.

Find out is a website equipped with an RSS.

In Chrome:

1. If You use on Your desktop PC Chrome – install this extension.
2. Then – still in Chrome – open the website You are interested in. Notice a small orange rectangular icon on the right top corner of the Chrome window – click it.
3. If the website is equipped with RSS – You should see one or more addresses – right click on the one which has “RSS” word and choose Copy link address.
4. Open the Notepad, Word or any other text editor and paste the address ^(Ctrl+V).

In Opera:

1. If You use on Your desktop PC Opera – install this extension.
2. Then – still in Opera – open the website You are interested in. Notice a small icon (three arcs) on the right top corner of the Opera window – click it.
3. If the website is equipped with RSS – You should see one or more addresses – right click on the one which has “RSS” word and choose Copy link.
4. Open the Notepad, Word or any other text editor and paste the address ^(Ctrl+V).

Handy lets You to subscribe also websites which are not equipped with RSS – see “Read non-RSS Websites” in the “Advanced” section of this documentation.

What is RSS and why You might like it?

Probably You could point out websites – which You find worth (re)visiting to find out another interesting posts or articles. While there are plenty of blogs and other websites out there – as far as the layout is concerned, they are accordingly much different from one another. Therefore each time You want to check out the new content they provide – it requires to almost constantly switch Your attention between various bookmarks, tabs and layouts. Moreover, it isn’t unlikely that Your favorite websites have been re-designed once for a while – and You are again in the need of figuring out where particular things are placed now.

Fortunately there is a way to browse the content You like in a much easier and distraction-free way (maintaining Your attention focused in one direction, without disturbances): using so-called RSS reader.

RSS: ^{(It is that)} Really Simple Solution.

To put it simple, **RSS is a way of delivering content **directly to You****, i.e., without a need to visit a bunch of websites You follow every time You wanna check them out. Using RSS those websites are – in a sense - “visiting You”, by sending to You their new stuff (it is like a magazine subscription). Moreover, however many websites You subscribe – they are presented to You in a unified way, therefore creating a completely new - Your “Dream Magazine” :) . It consists of Your favorite content - and it is constantly up-to-date (so there are no “issues”, but constant receiving new articles).

As You probably guess, this way is completely free of distractions/switching attention mentioned above. Moreover, it is much less time-consuming: no need to open several websites, just one click (or tap) and You see every new thing out of Your favorite set of sources. It also consumes much less data because the only thing which is loaded is an article = the actual content, not the whole layout around it. There are plenty of various data-consuming things on websites – which in case of RSS are not necessary.

Sounds appealing? It is fantastic that this way You may follow (subscribe) almost any website You want – including blogs, YouTube channels and even podcasts

Would You like to receive news on selected topics, provided by Google News?

Go to sidebar › + › Google News Topics.

Another thing is that You can use Handy just to read any particular article out of any subscription (feed) – You might find such an article using Your web browser of preference and then Android “Share” feature – or You may simply use built-in web search engine within the app itself.

To read an article found in other apps (e.g., web browser):

In the other app select the article URL address and use Android “Share” feature › then choose “Read Now” or “Read Later”. Article will be placed into “Without a feed” group in Handy.

To browse the Web directly within Handy:

Long tap on HNR icon and choose Article Web Search. Alternatively You’ll find this option i.a., within context menu in the app.