Often in a set of subscriptions there will be some subscriptions and articles that are of particular interest to you, and some subscriptions and articles that are of less importance. FeedGhost's prioritization feature allows you to read articles in the order that they matter most to you.
By default, FeedGhost orders articles for reading from oldest to newest; to use the prioritization feature, you will need to choose a new order. FeedGhost will retain your ordering setting however so there is no need to reset it each time.
If you use the "river-view" to read (that is, with the articles list collapsed), FeedGhost displays a header bar at the very top of the river, allowing you to choose date sorting or priority sorting.
Articles within the river-view are then "grouped" by additional grouping bars. These will either be units of time (today, yesterday, this week, last week, etc), or priority groups (high, low, or medium). Each grouping bar has buttons to mark all articles within that group as read, and to move to the next group.
If you use the articles list to read (articles list expanded), you can use the "Priority" column to sort and group articles in the usual way. See the "articles list" topic for more information.
In the absence of any other priority settings, FeedGhost will try to guess which subscriptions are your most and least favorite. Subscriptions accumulate "points" which are used to automatically rank them. Subscriptions earn points if you:
When you first start using the priority feature, the guesses FeedGhost makes may be rather inaccurate. You can either simply let FeedGhost gather more data as you use it, and the automatic prioritization will improve, or you can start to add your own opinions.
To manually assign priorities to subscriptions, click the "Priority" button in the "Feeds" section of the toolbar.
Your subscriptions are shown in a tree with the current priority of each subscription displayed to the right. Priorities are displayed as hearts from high (three hearts) to low (one heart). Automatically-generated priorities are displayed in gray; manually set priorities are displayed as red.
To change a priority setting, move the mouse over the heart icons to the right of the subscription you wish to change, and click the appropriate number of hearts. To reset the subscription to automatic, move the mouse to the right of the hearts, and click the heart-with-a-cross icon that appears.
Hint: if you just want to set the priority of a subscription that is selected in the main subscriptions tree, use the drop-down on the side of the "Priority" toolbar button.
Manual priority settings always take precedence over automatic ones. If you set a subscription as high priority, it will be moved to the top of the list. If you set it to low priority, it will be moved to the bottom.
An alternative way to tell FeedGhost which articles you're interested in is to use the search boost feature. Using search boost, FeedGhost will scan articles for particular keywords and either raise or lower the priority of that article.
To add a search boost keyword, click the "Priority" button on the toolbar and choose the "Keyword Priority Boost" tab. From here you can add, edit or delete keywords. To increase the priority of articles containing the keyword, choose the "High" setting in the drop-down. To decrease the priority, choose "Low".
Priority boost terms that are found in articles are highlighted; bold and green for increased priority, dark red for lowered.
