Check out reader2000.com/shares/search for our new search interface!

The default operator is AND, meaning that a search for tiger woods will return shares that contain both of the words tiger and woods. If your search query is tiger OR woods then you will shares that contain at least one of the words, and if you search “tiger woods” with quotes then you’ll only see shares that have the exact phrase

Search results are limited to people you follow, and obey the same privacy rules as when you read shares: you can only search private shares from users who have specifically given you private access, and you can’t search any shares from people who have blocked you

Save shares for later by checking the box that says ‘Save for later’.  Also works with the keyboard shortcut ‘v’.

Access your saved shares from the ‘Shares you’ve saved’ link on the sidebar. You can also see the shares you’ve liked.

You can now reshare public shares! Click the reshare button, or use the keyboard shortcut ‘s’

Starting today, you can make private shares on Reader2000!  What’s a private share you ask?  Pretty simple: you create and maintain a list of your trusted friends, and only those people on your pre-approved list will be able to see your private shares. For example, a new follower who is not on your pre-approved list will only be able to see your public shares.

You can set a share to be private at the time of share by marking the “private” check box on the share form. You can also go back through your old shares to toggle an individual share’s public/private status.

Check out https://www.reader2000.com/users/privacy to grant your friends access to your private shares (the link is available from “Your shared items” page).  You can also grant private access by mousing over usernames in shares/likes/comments.

Shares that you’ve made on Reader2000 before now will default to ‘public’, but again you can go back and mark individual shares as ‘private’ by clicking the toggle

All shares that were imported from the old Google Reader (and any GReader shares we import in the future) will default to ‘private.’  Additionally, when we release the reshare feature, only public shares will be reshareable.

Now you can use the Note in R2K bookmarklet to share posts directly from Google Reader to Reader2000!  From within Google Reader, simply click the “Note in R2K” bookmarklet to share the current item in Reader2000.  

If you don’t highlight anything, we’ll share the entire post.  You can still highlight a portion of the post if you just want to share an excerpt.

These are things you can do right now, this very second, when you sign up at Reader2000!

A multi-use bookmarklet, Note in R2K

• Highlight a portion of the page, click the bookmarklet, and the portion that you highlighted will be the body of your share
• If you don’t highlight anything, we’ll share the entire page, but with the junk stripped out
• Special cases for YouTube, Vimeo, and other multimedia sites allow you to share the relevant video/audio without highlighting anything
• Special case when the page is a single image: no need to highlight anything!

Create your own share from scratch by clicking the “share from right here” link

Follow people by clicking “edit” next to “People you follow”, then finding your friends (we know this will be a hassle as the list gets longer; don’t worry, we’re going to fix it!)

Google Reader’s Regular View or Comment View

Our markdown language lets you format your shares/notes/comments, including embedding images and videos by simply pasting the URLs

Likes for both shares and comments

Preqrequisite: Add the bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmarks bar

If you can’t find your bookmarks bar, try going to your browser’s “View” menu and looking for either “Show bookmarks bar”, or a “Toolbars” submenu that has something similar

If you want to share only a specific part of the page, highlight the part of the page that you want to share, then click the Note in R2K bookmarklet:

If you want to share the entire page, click the bookmarklet without highlighting anything, and we’ll automatically share the entire page, but with the junk stripped out!

The YouTube Chrome app has a bug that prevents any bookmarklet from working, not just R2K.  Try uninstalling the app from Chrome.  Open a new tab, right click the YouTube “app”, then click “Remove from Chrome”

Glad you asked, we have big plans for many important features!  Here are a few of the most immediate priorities:

Manage your RSS feeds, and share directly from RSS

Enhanced privacy settings, so you can control who follows you

Keep track of read/unread items - UPDATE: now keeping track of your read/unread

Better profile pages

Keyboard shortcuts - UPDATE: implemented j / k / l keyboard shortcuts!

Go to http://gravatar.com, and sign up for a gravatar using the same email address you used to sign up for Reader2000.  That’s it! (it sometimes takes a little while for the profile picture to update, but it will!)