---
title: "Why I like SharpReader better"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/8/why-i-like-sharpreader-better.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/8/why-i-like-sharpreader-better.html"
published: "2003-10-08T06:39:00"
updated: "2003-10-08T06:39:00"
tags: ["Blogging", "Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "if there are only two things that are missing from SharpReader , they would be: an “author“ column a “Flag for later“ column That's it. Really. Today, SharpReader is , to me, much more useful that, say, NewsGator or…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Why I like SharpReader better

By Roy Osherove October 8, 2003 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging), [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 8, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

if there are only two things that are missing from [SharpReader](http://www.sharpreader.com/) , they would be:

- an “author“ column
- a “Flag for later“ column

That's it. Really. Today, SharpReader is , to me, much more useful that, say, [NewsGator](http://www.newsgator.com/) or [FeedDemon](http://www.feeddemon.com/). Why?

- It's a power tool. Everything works fast, and you get almost instant feedback for all your actions

- With outlook based browsing, you're dependant on outlook to “show you the money“, and sometimes that may take a while to load a post into the outlook window.

- Outlook doesn't show you the amount of unread posts in folders down the hierarchy.With SharpReader, I can have all the “important“ folders closed up and still know that I have some new stuff in my “important news“ folder somewhere (I have 3 sub folders in there)
- Filtering is _bleeding_ fast in SharpReader
- No fancy-shmancy nice GUI stuff. Just pure information (sort of like [Total Commander](http://www.ghisler.com/))
- I can view a large amount of information at the same time, in a hierarchical manner.

-    In outlook, I have much less screen space (feature request for outlook - “Full screen“ mode!) to view all the folders/feeds.

- the awesome “aggregate links“ for each post feature (which I'm not sure how it works)
- It's **simple** to use!

## More in Blogging

[All posts in Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

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- Oct 9, 2003

    ### [Another one bites the dust (XP magazine RSS feed anyone?)](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/9/another-one-bites-the-dust-xp-magazine-rss-feed-anyone.html)

- Oct 6, 2003

    ### [.Net Rocks closure, suggestion, and discovering Salamander. Oh my!](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/6/net-rocks-closure-suggestion-and-discovering-salamander-oh-m.html)

- Oct 5, 2003

    ### [Scoble on .Net Rocks? Give me a break..](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/5/scoble-on-net-rocks-give-me-a-break.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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