On Fixing my Feedly

A faithful servant

For many years I have relied on Feedly to deliver the blogs and websites I want to read to my iPad. It is a free valuable service, and I have folders of collected sites by genre.

Genealogy and DNA

Books

Tech

Libraries and Librarians

General interest

Food and Recipes

Sewing

History

It is simple to add a site to your feed, simply copy the URL of the site use the Follow Sources in Feedly and add the URL there.

During this last week an anomaly appeared in my Genealogy folder. The posts were in an Asian script and several were appearing each day - an unwanted invader. Perhaps a dormant genealogy blog had not revisited their space for a long time or a domain name I was following was taken over.

To Remove a Feed

Feeds can be removed in the app by holding down the name of the feed in the sidebar, then selecting Unfollow.

To remove when logged in on a web page, from the side bar, choose the three dot menu which reveals Unfollow.

Aaron’s blog was not the offending feed but is used here to illustrate how to Unfollow a feed.

Aaron has moved from Blogger  to Substack you can find his Musings about Librarianship https://substack.com/@aarontay and add his wisdom to your Feedly.

Back to reading now I've cleaned up my account.

This post first appeared on https://carmelgalvin.info

Food and recipes

Organise those recipes

I've been steadily getting rid of all those scraps of paper saved from magazines that had a recipe I just could not resist. In the process I investigated a variety of ways of digitising those resources.
My process is quite simple.

1. Use Evernote - create a notebook for recipes
2. Scan those pieces of paper using the phone or tablet
3. Add tags
4. View cook book in Evernote food - not at all necessary as Evernote does such a good job, but the Evernote food app is visually pleasing.

The power of Evernote search is the winner for me, it even searches the text within the images of my handwritten recipes from years ago. Once I was set on this path I continued to add interesting recipes read through Feedly or clipped from the web via the Chrome extension Clearly. Once I had loaded the Web clipper extension and turned on related searches, any Google search now searched my Evernote notebooks too. 

The only problem left was all those recipes in my shelves of recipe books. Here Eat your books came into play. It indexes the recipes in your cook books, making it easy to find which cook book had that favourite recipe. You can add five books for free but need a subscription to add more.

I put this information into the presentation below for patrons of Noosa Library Services along with some other interesting food sites. The apps and sites I used are detailed in the slides.

Digitise your recipes and enjoy!