One of the best RSS feed readers out there is Google Reader. However one (very) longstanding complaint is that it has no ability to change the name of folders/tags. However there is a workaround, that being to "move" subscriptions from one tag to another. It’s sort of a long roundabout way of doing it, but it least it can be done.
Here’s how:
Above: I have two tags, that being Florida and keywords. These are two tags I custom made. I want to change keywords to tech keywords.
In Google Reader, I click Settings at the extreme top right.
On the next page I click the Subscriptions tab (in yellow-orange).
After that I type in keywords at the top right (where it says Filter by name, folder or URL).
All my subscriptions show up for that tag, like this:
On the first subscription, I click the Change folders… button and choose New Folder, title it tech keywords and click OK. The reason we do this is because the new tag must exist with at least one subscription in it before we move the others.
Now I see this for my first subscription:
Next to Select there is a link for All (in this case All 8 subscriptions since there are only 8). I click that to put a checkbox in all of them.
From the More Actions… drop-down menu I do two things:
- Under Add to folder I choose tech keywords.
- Under Remove from folder I choose keywords.
I click Back to Google Reader, and…
Success! I’ve "moved" all subscriptions from keywords to tech keywords.
The only thing left now is cleanup.
I click Settings, then the Folders and Tags tab, then delete the keywords tag as I’m not using it any longer.
And that’s it. Done deal.
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