I am having trouble navigating the item list. I have a number of feeds with large item counts. So, I like set a long item list, quickly look them over and then bring up another page, and continue till I reach the end.
The problem is that I can’t seem to find a way to do this very easily in Blur. When my scan reaches the bottom of the page, and I hit page down (or mouse scroll), I end up bringing in about 1/4 of the item feed length I have set. If I have the length set to show 32 items, I can bring in about 8 new items instead of a fresh 32. Is there some way to do what I want? TIA
Sorry I wasn’t clear . . let me try again. When you click on a feed name in the left column, a list of items will open on the bottom right section of the screen. Everything I am talking about refers to this list.
Now, let’s say the feed that I opened has 300 unread items, and that 30 of them are visible in this list. I will quickly scan the 30 items, without doing anything on Blur. What I want to do is quickly and easily bring up the next 30 unread items.
I hope this explains it better. I actually just realized that I could click on the last visible item, at the bottom of the list, and then hit page down a few times, and that will get me a full page of new items. So that isn’t really too bad. I don’t know if I am missing something . . and of course it would be great if there was some keyboard or mouse action that would do this with one try.
No, it isn’t that I don’t want to scroll. It is that I like to scroll once, when at the bottom of the page, so I that can quickly scan a lot of items. I get moving quickly and am used to hitting page down once to bring up a full page of new items. It works for me so that I don’t even have to think about scrolling, and I am just looking at a new page just as I am visually canning the bottom item.
Also, sometimes I want to quickly go back and look at an item again. I often know exactly how many pages back the item is located. Then, I can just hit that number of page ups.
So, unfortunately, the ‘m’ shortcut won’t help. I just had a thought about whether the results I am getting might be browser-specific. I have been using Firefox and have not yet run Blur on Chrome. I think I will try it out and see if any difference is there.
There shouldn’t be any difference. Try the List view and configuring the space bar, which can scroll down a page for you. That might be closer to what you’re looking for.
I tried what you suggested . . actually sounded quite good and thinking it would solve my problem. But in practice, it is not working out. When I have a page full of items (in List view) and then hit the space bar (set at 100% scroll), it will advance the page only as far as the scroll bar has room to advance. And if I hit the space bar again, nothing happens.
I was really hoping this method would be an easy way to advance a full page at a time.
The Feedly iOS app has this. They call them cards, but you’re essentially paging through story titles. NewsBlur doesn’t really offer that format, as it’s more magazine-like than I care for, and nobody’s really asked for it.
Thanks for the clarification. I don’t really use iOS, so Feedly will not help. If I decide to go with Blur, I will just work around to suit my navigational needs.